Outside the Beltway

The Senate moved last night to end the airport delays caused by furloughing air traffic controllers.

Less than a week after the bomb he planted at the Boston Marathon went off, Dzhokar Tsarnaev has been formally charged in Federal Court.

We treat violence by lone individuals differently than organized violence. Race, religion, and national origin have nothing to do with that.

The prospects for gun control appear to be dimming.

Peter Bergen says government crackdowns since the Oklahoma City and 9/11 attacks have made getting bomb making materials harder.

Steve Davis, who quarterbacked Oklahoma to back-to-back national titles, died in a plane crash yesterday. He was 60.

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

40 years after Roe v. Wade, support for the decision is still strong, but the effort to restrict it continues apace.

40 years later, the public continues to support the Supreme Court’s decision in Roe v. Wade.

Johnny Manziel won the Heisman Trophy last night, becoming the first “freshman” to do so.

Will conservatives freak out if Romney loses? That’s pretty much guaranteed.

The Libertarian Party’s Presidential candidate could prove decisive in determining who wins the Electoral College.

Mitt Romney still has problems with Southern whites that could pose problems for him in states like Virginia and North Carolina.

Technically, you don’t own your digital music files. That means you can’t transfer them to your heirs after you die.

Andrew Hacker argues that, while quantitative skills are “critical for informed citizenship and personal finance,” making kids master algebra to graduate high school has disastrous consequences.

A Kafkaesque legal proceeding is unfolding in Kentucky.

There are some glaring omissions from a recent list of television’s “most powerful” moments.

How dominant is the Southeastern Conference? It’s won more titles in the big sports since 2005 than all other conferences combined.

Will winning a championship finally overshadown “The Decision” and erase the NBA’s best player’s reputation as a choke artist?

Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels will become president of Purdue University upon completion of his term in January. The faculty is apprehensive because Daniels has not had an academic career.

A story headlined “American Airlines Rejects Female Passenger Because Political Pro-Choice T-Shirt is ‘Inappropriate'” is going viral.

The Oklahoma City Thunder is making their first trip to the Western Conference finals after ousting the Los Angeles Lakers in five games. Naturally, rioting and gunplay ensued.

Recipe plagiarism and a bonus tale.

Private college degree mills have come under intense scrutiny. But many public institutions have similar statistics.

Your tax dollars should not be paying for this.

The Oval Office is nothing like a corporate boardroom.

Mitt Romney is likely to put considerable distance between himself and his opponents tomorrow.

Not surprisingly, the race in the Buckeye State is tightening.

Rick Santorum’s inability to stay away from the culture wars may have been his undoing.

Last night’s debate may have been the last one. It was also the least informative.

A bill likely to become law in Virginia will require all women seeking abortions to undergo an invasive ultrasound examination.

One analyst sees a way that the current GOP race could indeed lead to a brokered convention.

Rick Santorum swept three states that are off the media radar screen. Will it revive his campaign?