Outside the Beltway

Maryland’s former Governor will announce his candidacy for President next week. Don’t expect him to go very far.

Hillary Clinton told supporters she’d require Supreme Court nominees to pledge to overturn Citizens United, a decision she completely misrepresented.

The first of what is likely to be many defamation suits related to Rolling Stone’s discredited campus rape story has been filed.

The tributes to the troops you see during N.F.L. games were most likely bought and paid for with your tax dollars.

A Federal Appeals Court has ruled that the N.S.A.’s data mining program is illegal, but its ruling may not have a very big impact.

Big news out of Baltimore and, perhaps, the beginning of justice for Freddie Gray.

There is no excuse for last night’s rioting in Baltimore, but that should not deflect attention from the problems with that city’s police.

It’s time for another White House Correspondent’s Dinner, and it’s going to be just as atrocious as the last one. But, the dinner isn’t the real problem.

The confirmation of a new Attorney General has been held up nearly six months for what amounts to no legitimate reason.

Australia has an interesting new idea about how to encourage parents to vaccinate their children.

Thanks to one civilian with a camera, a police officer is facing charges in what appears to clearly be an improper shooting.

A new Justice Department report has found widespread racial bias in the Ferguson Police Department, but it’s a problem that goes far beyond one Missouri suburb.

Not surprisingly, the Federal investigation of the Michael Brown shooting is ending much like the state investigation did.

ISIS owns more territory than it did when the US bombing campaign began.

New details in the shooting of 12 year old Tamir Rice raise more questions.

In the end, the Tea Party challenge to John Boehner was a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.

The Slay Boy Edition OTB Caption Contest^TM is now over.

The first popularly elected African-American Senator, and the first African-American Senator to serve since the end of Reconstruction ended, has passed away.

A man best known, perhaps, for what he didn’t do, has passed away

The news cycle in 2014 seemed to be dominated by a series of real and phony “crises” that grabbed our attention for short periods of time.

NYPD Officers Rafael Ramos and Wenjian Liu were shot dead while sitting in their patrol car In Brooklyn. And those suggesting that anyone other than the killer has “blood on their hands” are being absurd.

Was Man Haron Monis a terrorist, or just a lone nut who had latched on to the rhetoric of ISIS to justify his own delusions? In the end, it hardly matters.

Even leaving aside the fact that it is far too early to be making such assessments, the idea that Rand Paul is the front runner for the Republican nomination in 2016 fails the logic test.

Many have suggested that prosecution of cases involving police misconduct should be handled by prosecutors who don’t work with local police departments on a regular basis. They’re right.

While conservatives have been generally as appalled as others with the news out of Staten Island, some of them are looking in the wrong place for blame.

A former RNC chair says a black man’s life isn’t worth a ham sandwich.

A New York City Grand Jury refuses to indict a cop who appears from all available evidence to choked a guy to death for no good reason.

The Food & Drug Administration’s new regulations requiring calorie and other information on menus in restaurants and elsewhere won’t work, could limit consumer choice, and may not be Constitutional.

Today is a day for turkey and football, not a day for politics.

Columbus, Philadelphia, or New York City (well, Brooklyn really)?

Fresh off his third statewide win in four years, Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker appears to be getting ready to run for President.

Adapting a relic of the 20th Century to the 21st Century.

Every member of the Supreme Court graduated from an Ivy League Law School. That kind of homogeneity is not healthy.

The labor laws apply no matter what business you’re in.

There’s more to life than politics. Unfortunately, there are many Americans who don’t seem to recognize that fact.

Good news that ought to quiet people’s concerns significantly, on the Ebola front.

Reports from the Justice Department seem to be laying the groundwork for more disappointment for those hoping for charges against Officer Darren Wilson.

We may have our first legal challenge to an Ebola quarantine order by tomorrow

Kentucky Senator Rand Paul continues to challenge Republican orthodoxy on foreign policy, and that’s a good thing.

Mandatory quarantines are a massive violation of personal liberty. We ought to be careful in how, when, and why we impose them and who they are directed toward.