Outside the Beltway

If you don’t collect the data, the problem disappears, right?

Despite recent obsession with him, Saul Alinsky’s work has not garnered much attention from political scientists.

Science fiction writers have envisioned men flying around in their own personal jetpacks for decades. It may finally be a reality.

Requiring people with ethical conflicts to disclose them leads to more bad behavior, not less, a new study finds.

Gary Weddle, a schoolteacher from East Wenatchee, Washington, has cut his beard after waiting almost ten years for Osama bin Laden to be killed.

And when did it know it?

The birthers are dead (kinda), so long live the transcripters!

America’s war colleges have some problems but we can’t close them.

Zsa Zsa Gabor’s 67-year-old husband says he and the 94-year-old actress are seeking to have a child through a surrogate.

A NATO airstrike killed 13 rebel fighters, who were mistaken for Gaddafi’s forces. Apparently, they were shooting at NATO planes.

The experiences of two well-known academics denied tenure at Chicago provide some clues.

A new study finds that the robust growth of the financial sector in the United States in recent decades has come at the expense of entrepreneurship.

Evolution is falsifiable and biology is a science. Economics might be.

Will one of the worst natural disasters to hit Japan in centuries change the relationship between the Japanese government and the people?

Automated programs are getting very good at poker and are winning large sums on online gambling sites.

The peculiar habit of some Indo-Europeans of assigning gender to nouns is frustrating and amusing.

The legendary columnist David Broder has died.

Scientists have discovered that the Internet could be a useful collaborate tool.

James Franco is a film director, screenwriter, painter, author, performance artist and actor. And working on a PhD at Yale.

Northwestern’s Human Sexuality course includes a naked woman being brought to orgasm with a dildo.

Americans had it so much better in the 1950s, right?

The fight over Federal funding for Planned Parenthood seems to be about much more than whether taxpayer dollars should be going to Planned Parenthood.

Several “correct” answers on the American citizenship test are technically incorrect.

A new poll finds that Republican policies on immigration are chasing Latino voters straight into the arms of the Democratic Party.

Later this week, Clarence Thomas will have gone five years without asking a question during oral argument at the Supreme Court. Is that really a big deal?

Yet another study finds conservatives wildly underrepresented in higher education.

The federal government’s newest dietary guidelines have finally stated that which has long been between the lines: Americans eat too damn much food.