Outside the Beltway

Famous people may die sooner than the rest of us. Then again, they may not.

Yesterday was not a good day for the Cable “News” Network.

Chuck Hagel has countermanded his predecessor and canceled the Distinguished Warfare Medal.

The Army has ruled, correctly, that the victims of Major Nidal Hassan are not entitled to the Purple Heart.

So what, exactly, is going on in North Korea? And how should we respond to Kim’s bluster?

The former coach of an American team playing a foreign sport is upset that his foreign-born successor is using foreign-born Americans.

Things are heating up on the Korean Peninsula again.

North Korea has conducted its third test of a nuclear weapon.

North Korea’s latest provocations may be testing the patience of their patrons in Beijing.

The Boy Scouts is strongly reconsidering its ban on gays.

Monday, The Atlantic published and took down a sponsored article from the church of Scientology. Yesterday, it admitted it had “screwed up.”

The idea of completely pulling out of Afghanistan after 2014 is very compelling.

Believing the maker/taker dichotomy.

There are some expected and unexpected results in Nate Silver’s review of pollster accuracy in 2012.

If you’re a white Southerner who gets most of his information from Fox News and Rush Limbaugh, you probably don’t know a lot of people who voted for Barack Obama.

Mayor Bloomberg has decided to hold the New York Marathon Sunday even though millions are still without power and the city infrastructure is unable to cope with normal activity.

Two years ago, Polish President Lech Kaczynski and 95 others were killed in a plane crash in Russia. A new report has “traces of explosives” in the debris.

The nation’s capitol is closed in anticipation of Hurricane Sandy. But the Supreme Court will be reporting for duty.