Outside the Beltway

A milestone for the nation’s oldest service academy, founded in 1802.

An aggressive worldwide vaccination program has brought us to the point where we may soon be able to declare the eradication of Polio. That is a great thing and another argument against the anti-vaxxers.

A Federal Appeals Court has reversed a lower court ruling that struck down Texas’s Voter ID law as discriminatory against minority voters.

The Marvel superhero film passed ‘Titanic’ in US ticket sales. Unless we adjust for inflation. Which we absolutely should.

The grand gesture may put undue pressure on women in making an important life decision.

We don’t yet have enough information to assign blame here. Naturally, that’s not stopping anyone.

The fact that Andrew McCabe was fired before he could retire means that he will lose out on some significant pension benefits, but. contrary to some media reporting, he won’t lose his pension completely.

The nominations of Mike Pompeo and Gina Haspel could be in trouble in the Senate.

While the nature of Rex Tillerson’s firing as Secretary of State was shocking in its abruptness, taken in context with the rocky nature of his tenure it was hardly surprising.

Ending an investigation that was flawed and tainted with partisanship from the start, the House Intelligence Committee has abruptly concluded its investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election.

He did what many had thought humanly impossible in running a sub-4 minute mile in 1954 and followed that with a brilliant career in medicine.

Yesterday’s Falcon Heavy Launch was a near-complete success and another amazing advance in the race to the stars.

North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un is extending an olive branch of sorts to South Korea while simultaneously claiming success in achieving a nuclear deterrent.

Ominous news for the Trump Administration today out of Federal Court in Washington, D.C.

Donald Trump has been President 300 days and the record reveals no real accomplishments and increased dissatisfaction with the job he’s doing.

In other news, this week we learned that AIM still exists.

Things are getting far more complicated on the Korean Peninsula. Diplomacy isn’t working, and a military option would most likely lead to disaster.

Another escalation on the Korean peninsula.

More provocation from Pyongyang.

The FARC have disarmed. Now to the hard part.

An assessment of the 45th President’s first 100 days.

After starting the year with two good months, the jobs report for March was quite disappointing.

Another SpaceX success.

South Korea removes a corrupt leader by peaceful means.

It was both the best speech Trump has ever given and the worst presidential address I can recall

The reality of global climate change made itself evident again in 2016.

Rest In Peace, Mrs. Brady.

Janet Reno, who served as Attorney General for nearly all of the Bill Clinton Administration, has died at 78.

The most underrated superstar of this era has passed a special milestone, albeit with a big asterisk.

Hillary Clinton won the final Super Tuesday of the 2016 primary season, thus officially sending us into what promises to be among the most contentious General Election battles in recent memory.

An historic achievement.

Bernie Sanders is continuing to let his supporters believe he has a chance to win the Democratic nomination. He is either delusional, or he is lying to his supporters.

Pfizer has become the latest drug maker from barring its products from being used in executions.

Hillary Clinton eked out the narrowest of wins in Iowa, but now she’s headed to New Hampshire where Bernie Sanders holds a seemingly insurmountable lead in the polls.

In a move it had been telegraphing for the better part of a year, the Federal Reserve raised interest rates for the first time since July 2006.

After 36 years, the quadrennial absurdity of the Iowa Straw Poll is dead.

The six Baltimore cops charged in the April death of Freddie Gray have been indicted by a Grand Jury.

A wholly successfully first test for NASA’s next generation manned space vehicle.

Much like the disease itself, Ebola panic seems to have disappeared as the midterm elections become ever more distant in the rear view mirror.

Polls continue to show that most Americans are largely tuning the midterms out.

Danny Sullivan reflects on the end of another era.

Modern devices are more fragile, frustrating, and resource intensive than those of a decade ago.

However you feel about the Redskins name, the decision to retroactively repeal their trademarks is troubling on many levels.

The US Government has deemed the nickname of the capital’s NFL club racially offensive.