Outside the Beltway

Prejudice and negative attitudes towards obese individuals is becoming a global norm, not just an American phenomenon.

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.

Xavier Alvarez lied about having been awarded the Medal Of Honor. Should that be a crime? The Ninth Circuit Court Of Appeals says no, and they’re right.

Newt Gingrich on Libya: “This is as badly executed, I think, as any policy we’ve seen since WWII, and it will become a case study for how not to engage in this type of activity.”

The antiwar movement has been strangely silent despite the fact that U.S. foreign policy hasn’t really changed that much since Barack Obama became President.

While complaints that there’s too much information for intellectuals to sort through, much less read, are constant, they’re not new. Harvard historian Ann Blair argues in her new book Too Much to Know: Managing Scholarly Information Before the Modern Age that this stress goes back at least to Seneca’s time.

Add this to the list of things for parents to worry about: Car safety seats for children over 65 pounds are not adequately tested.

PP’s intensive effort to recast itself as a preventer of abortions doesn’t bear scrutiny.

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

Contrary to some assertions, Wisconsin public servants are not better compensated than their private sector counterparts.

Global poverty has plummeted in recent years.

A county in the far southwest corner of Virginia is the latest battle ground in the ongoing battle over the separation of church and state.

JCPenney used black hat SEO to game Google. But Google’s penalties are arguably just as bad. And what about HuffPo?

The Obama administration’s investigation into Toyota safety problems has found no electronic flaws to account for reports of sudden, unintentional acceleration and other safety problems.

Yet another study finds conservatives wildly underrepresented in higher education.

While illegal immigration in the United States remains enormous, it has dropped considerably over the last three years.

A new study casts new light on the importance of testing students to reinforce their grasp of information.

The Republican Study Committee has come up with some significant budget cuts.

A new study suggests college students aren’t learning the critical thinking skills they’re supposed to learn, but that isn’t necessary the fault of the university they’re attending.

A poll that came out late last week purports show that Palin’s speech helped her public image. However, if we look at the numbers, that claim is a weak one.

Information made public by Wikileaks appears to have played a role in sparking the protest movement that has brought down the President of Tunisia.

America’s foremost tax foe has weighed in on the Afghanistan War debate.

While I support a college playoff, there’s an argument to be made for the integrity of the regular season.

New research shows that “across the world the main social groups which practice polygyny do not consume alcohol” and, conversely, “a positive correlation between monogamy and alcohol consumption (and especially between monogamy and drunkenness) across societies.”

The Risky Business Edition OTB Caption Contest^TM is now over.

Unless you paid close attention, you probably missed most of the coverage of the war in Afghanistan in 2010.

WikiLeaker Bradley Manning has been held “under conditions that constitute cruel and inhumane treatment and, by the standards of many nations, even torture” for seven months and counting.

A new study seems to show that student evaluations of teachers are something other than a popularity contest.

Republicans were largely silent during the Bush Administration as spending went out of control. Will they do that again?

The Senate has constructed the legislation to correspond to the Obama-McConnell deal, sweeteners and all.

Does that degree you get at the end of your four years of college really mean anything anymore, and is it worth the money you paid for it?

Will you age slower if you exercise, eat well? A study conducted by German researchers says Yes. But maybe it just seems like you’re aging slower?