Outside the Beltway

The Texas GOP wants to “pray away the gay.”

It seems unlikely that Eric Shinseki will have a job for much longer.

Some polls aren’t worth the paper they’re printed on.

The Democrats have a big advantage in the Electoral College, at least for now.

Sooner than one might have expected, Republicans are starting to battle over the issue of marriage equality.

New York has joined nine other states and the District of Columbia to vote to for an Electoral College bypass.

Thanks to favorable polling numbers and candidate selection, winning the Senate may very well be in the GOP’s grasp.

Michael Sam is gay.It didn’t matter to his University of Missouri teammates. Will it matter to the NFL?

Gizmodo’s Brian Barrett explains “Why the South Fell Apart in the Snow.”

The year that will soon ended will go down in history as the year that the same-sex marriage debate changed forever.

A victory for same-sex marriage in an unlikely place.

A 17th state legalizes gay marriage. There’s no turning back.

Republicans have some good ideas about overhauling how they pick a nominee. Unfortunately, it’s hard to see how most of them can be enforced.

The 7 seats most likely to switch parties are held by Democrats.

The state where the same-sex marriage battle began is just days away from legalizing same-sex marriage.

The battle for marriage equality has scored a number of victories in a short period of time, but that’s about to change.

Legislation to ban discrimination in employment against gays and lesbians is set to make major gains in the Senate.

Even if it were functioning properly the Federal Health Care Exchange website would still have problems.

To borrow a phrase from Stephen Colbert, if you want to understand how Congress works, you better know a District.

The 10th anniversary of McCain-Feingold teaches a lesson we should already have learned.

Thanks to archaic state laws, you can look at cars in a Tesla showroom, but in my states you can’t but anything there.

A Colorado 6-year-old with a penis has successfully sued for the right to use the girls’ restroom.

To a large degree, the right seems to have backed down in the marriage wars.

It’s going to be another eventful month for the Supreme Court.

Southerners lie about their weight–but not as much as those lyin’ Yankees.

The Republican field for 2016 is more wide open than any we’ve seen in a long time.