Outside the Beltway

Reports of the death of the Voting Rights Act have been greatly exaggerated.

A Federal Judge wasn’t very pleased when Administration lawyers told her that she doesn’t have jurisdiction to hear a lawsuit over the President’s drone policy.

The GOP’s chances to take over the Senate became much better over the weekend.

President Obama is rightly outraged by a wave of sexual assaults in the military. He unwittingly made them harder to prosecute.

Texas has become the latest state to attempt to restrict abortion rights, and North Carolina isn’t far behind.

The marriage equality battle is entering its next phase.

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

When Glen Coffee abruptly retired from a promising NFL career, most wondered what he was up to. Now we know.

As of today, John Dingell has been a Member of Congress for 20,997 days, a new record. That’s not something to celebrate.

A look at regional differences in American English.

The United States is as politically polarized as it was in 1865.

You can either have a career in a white shoe law firm or marry a military officer. Pick one.

Tragedy in Boston.

Election rules should be oriented towards increasing participation, not based on partisan calculations.

Chuck Hagel will be confirmed, but the campaign against him tells us much about the current state of Republican foreign policy

The GOP seems to be drawing all the wrong lessons from the 2012 elections.

Some proposed reforms just need to be ignored.

The attempted coup against John Boehner resembled something you’d see in a banana republic.

There are very rational reasons behind the current gridlock on Capitol Hill.

House Speaker John Boehner has purged the body’s key financial committees of members of his caucus that didn’t toe the line.

There’s been a bit of buzz of late about the fact that people in several states have filed petitions to secede from the Union. There shouldn’t be.

Barone tells some tales to make himself feel better.

If the Romney campaign looked shocked on Election Night, that’s because they didn’t believe the polls either.

Voters in four states endorsed marriage equality yesterday.

There are still votes to be counted, and the Romney campaign has yet to concede, but the race is over and Barack Obama has been re-elected.

Posting pictures of your ballot to Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram is a crime in some parts of America.

OTB bloggers give their best guesses on the House and Senate races.

The OTB gang give their best guess at the outcome of the 2012 presidential contest.

Utility crews from Alabama traveled to New Jersey to help get the power back on. They were turned away on account of not being unionized.

Once again, a natural disaster has caused a common economic fallacy re resurface.

The Mid-Atlantic region is under the gun.

As in 2010, Scott Rasmussen’s polling in 2012 has shown a distinct bias in favor of Republicans.