Outside the Beltway

Ever since last week’s debate, the race for the Republican nomination has come to resemble a schoolyard fight among a bunch of nine year-olds.

The Republican frontrunner doesn’t want newspapers to be able to write negative stories about him.

Conservatives are sending a message to Senate Republicans about the vacancy on the Supreme Court, and it may require them to initiate a suicidal game plan.

More email headaches for the Clinton campaign, but it remains unclear if any wrongdoing occurred.

We’re in another Presidential election cycle so it must be time to speculate about Michael Bloomberg again.

The Post Office is saying that it will not accept for mail any publication that includes ad for marijuana, even in states where it has been legalized.

After making a big deal about voting against the budget bill passed yesterday by Congress during the last debate, Marco Rubio ended up missing the vote altogether.

Polls are quite useful in the right circumstances, but knowledge, complexity, and timing all have to be taken into account in determining what they are telling us.

Tensions between Russia and Turkey remain high in the wake of yesterday’s incident, but there are some signs that things are starting to cool down.

Sarah Palin To The ‘Lamestream Media’: Never Mind

Much more so than in the past, the race for the Republican Presidential race has become a battle to define what it means to be a ‘conservative.’ Especially on issues like immigration and national security, one side seems to be winning the battle.

Massive boycotts and protests likely spell the end of Tim Wolfe’s tenure as president.

Marco Rubio is taking heat for missing a lot of Senate votes since he started running for President, but he’s not really any worse than other legislators who have run for President.

A front page cover on yesterday’s murders in Virginia crosses the line from reporting to exploitation.

Susan Crawford claims that “Cable-Only Presidential Debates are the New Poll Tax.”

Greek voters rejected the latest bailout package, but that only seems likely to make things even worse for them.

The next shoe drops in the Dennis Hastert case.

Voters in Ireland have overwhelmingly approved a referendum legalizing same-sex marriage.

There’s a better way to finance news than hiding it behind paywalls.

The just-concluded British General Election was also a clash between two former top advisers to President Obama.

The press corps is already bored.

The parents of the youngest victim of the Boston Marathon bombing argue that his killer should be spared from the death penalty.

Indiana Governor Mike Pence is supposed to be a champion of limited government. So why is he starting up a state run news agency?

Can ESPN cover sports while partnering with the sports leagues?

There are again reports of Chinese frustration with the Kim regime in North Korea, but change is unlikely to happen in the DPRK until Beijing is ready to let it happen.

A hostage crisis has been unfolding overnight at a cafe in Sydney, Australia that has apparent links to international terrorism.

An utter journalistic failure from Rolling Stone.

The next President will have a profound ability to shape the future of the Supreme Court, but that is unlikely to be the most important issue on voters minds in 2016.

The City of Coeur d’Alene, Idaho will not force two Christian ministers to open their wedding chapel business to same-sex wedding ceremonies.

The passing of a true legend in American journalism.

Rich guys are backing organizations that are taking over traditional party functions. Is that a problem?

The F.C.C. will be considering a petition to ban the word “Redskins” from the airwaves.

The nation’s newspaper of record is slashing its reporting team.

A major escalation.

Big news, and potentially a big merger, in the entertainment industry.

Much of the criticism of Hobby Lobby, and Citizens United before it, is based on a fundamental misunderstanding of what those decisions stand for.

The news media of 1914 didn’t see World War One coming, but it’s not clear that we’re any better.

A unanimous Supreme Court rules that the Fourth Amendment bars police from searching your electronic device without a warrant.

When everything’s an outrage, is anything outrageous?

Once again, President Obama’s attempt to communicate a foreign policy vision falls short.

The editors of our great newspapers are interchangeable.

The Associated Press doesn’t want its reporters to get too wordy.

A pretty clear violation of the First Amendment.