Outside the Beltway

Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker isn’t officially a candidate for President yet, but he’s doing quite well in Iowa anyway.

If a Russian solider dies, it’s now a secret thanks to a new decree signed by the Russian President.

The Cleveland Police Department has agreed to submit to significant monitoring in the wake of a damning Justice Department investigation.

A Cleveland police officer has been acquitted of manslaughter and other charges in a case that resulted in the death of two African-American individuals.

The first batch of email from Hillary Clinton regarding the 2012 attack in Benghazi have been released, and they don’t reveal anything we didn’t already know.

Disturbing developments on the part of the Ukrainian government.

The six Baltimore cops charged in the April death of Freddie Gray have been indicted by a Grand Jury.

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

President Obama is taking steps to reduce police militarization, but there’s much more that needs to be done.

Mohammed Morsi, Egypt’s first truly-elected president, has been sentenced to death by the government which ousted him in a coup.

A plan to distribute migrants from the conflicts in the Middle East and North Africa across the entire European Union seems destined to cause political conflict.

The Baltimore Police Department will finally be under the Federal microscope. But it took the death of Freddie Gray for it happen.

Some people in the media can’t seem to get it through their heads that speech they consider hateful is entitled to as much protection as speech that they support.

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

In a marked departure from recent cases, the Supreme Court rules that states can impose significant restriction on solicitation of campaign contributions in judicial elections.

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.

Ta-Nehisi Coates is insightful and eloquent. He’s wrong in this instance.

Just over a week after a death at the hands of police that remains incredibly suspicious, Baltimore is the sight of violent riots.

Legislators in Tennessee have taken the “gun rights” argument further than it was ever intended to go.

A new poll suggests that the American public does not support laws that give religious exemptions to businesses that want to discriminate based on sexual orientation.

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

Modern Singapore’s founder passed away at age 91 earlier this week.

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.

Unsurprisingly, Darren Wilson will not face federal charges in connection with the shooting of Michael Brown.

Nearly three years to the day after it started, the George Zimmerman case is essentially over.

Justice Ginsburg acknowledges the fact that, over the past nineteen years, same-sex marriage has gone from something that most Americans oppose to something that most Americans are willing to accept.

A big change in an important nation in the most volatile part of the world.

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

He’s tan. He’s rested. And, apparently, he’s ready. Mitt Romney seems very interested in 2016 all of a sudden.

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

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.

An Oberlin College student makes it clear just why she needs an education.

Despite opposition from both Republicans and Democrats, the compromise budget resolution passed narrowly last night, but not without some last minute drama

Apparently, law schools are in the business of coddling their special snowflake children now.

It looks like Congress has averted a budget fight for the second straight year.

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.

Not surprisingly a new poll finds that African-Americans perceive the American justice system far differently than whites.

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.

Michael Brown’s stepfather made incendiary comments in the wake of the Grand Jury announcement, but they do not amount to a crime.

The man who shot and killed Michael Brown has resigned, but that’s unlikely to satisfy protesters who still seem to be demanding criminal charges that are never going to come.

Well, so much for that “people’s revolt” that brought down a military dictator.

Next week, the Supreme Court will be asked to determine the line between free speech online and criminal threats

Regardless of the outcome of the Michael Brown investigation, there are legitimate problems that need to be addressed.

Not surprisingly, last night’s announcement that there would be no state court indictment in the Michael Brown shooting led to violence and confrontations with police. That’s not going to solve any of the real problems that face Ferguson, or any other community in the United States.

A not unexpected decision from the Grand Jury that investigated the Michael Brown shooting.

The House Intelligence Committee has concluded that the conspiracy theories regarding the 9/11/2012 attack in Benghazi are not supported by the evidence. That’s unlikely to change anyone’s mind, though.