Outside the Beltway

Are Republicans mostly to blame for the supercommittee failure?

A dwindling proportion of students are majoring in STEM fields. They’re likely making the wise choice.

An attack against Iran’s nuclear weapons research facility won’t be an easy thing.

Breaking news: There’s a gay man in Hollywood.

Another round of rumors is out claiming that Chris Christie is thinking about running for President.

Some pundits on the right can’t seem to quit Chris Christie.

Yes, Barack Obama is running for a second term.

Measuring our progress a decade after the 9/11 attacks

The latest push for laws against bullying is another example of the Nanny State rum amok.

Is she in or is she out? And does it matter?

After months of fits and starts, it appears anti-Gaddafi forces are on the verge of victory.

Iraq has become so dependent on Iran for its survival that it is endorsing the brutal tactics of Bashar Assad.

A bomb blast in Oslo’s government center has killed at least two people and a presumably related shooting spree at a nearby children’s camp are being investigated as terrorist related.

Jack Kevorkian, the man who’s illegal assisted suicide rampage earned him the nickname “Dr. Death,” has died.

Sarah Palin’s latest media spectacle will be heading west next month.

I get the impression that a lot of people don’t even know what “the 1967 borders” are or why they tend to be considered the logical point of departure for any type of peace negotiations.

Prisons can be so overcrowded as to constitute cruel and inhuman punishment.

With the customary hand-wringing over the low quality of the presidential field well underway, the corollary pining for other candidates to join the race is starting.

Wall Street says raise the debt ceiling. The Tea Party says no. What will the GOP do?

Republicans are starting to sour on Sarah Palin, meaning that they’re finally starting to catch up to the rest of the country.

A new biography of Adolf Hitler analyzes new documents about his World War I service and “concludes that he was not the hero he was later made out to be and that his radicalization shouldn’t necessarily be attributed to his wartime experiences.”

Wisconsin Republicans stripped state employees of collective bargaining rights without the Democratic senators who fled the state to prevent a quorum.

Pfc. Bradley Manning is being treated worse than a Prisoner Of War, and he hasn’t been convicted of a crime yet.

The saga of accused Wikileaks conspirator Bradley Manning continues to get uglier, with the military acknowledging that he was forced to spend the day naked for, well, no apparent reason.

Muslim cleric Yusuf al-Qaradawi has issued a fatwa against Libya’s Muammar Gaddafi.

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

Here’s how terrorists get past airport security: don’t bother to go through it.

More on the attack at Moscow’s Domodedovo airport.

Thirty years after the hostages were freed from captivity in Iran, the United States still hasn’t figured out how to deal with the Islamic Republic.

While the violence is down in Iraq, it’s not gone.

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.

Despite yesterday’s victory for opponents of the Affordable Care Act, the prospects in the Supreme Court are not good.

Politics makes for strange bedfellows and, when it comes to the debate over the extension of the Bush tax cuts, anti-tax Republicans are making common cause with soak-the-rich progressives.

Is the West’s string of luck about to end?

The latest Wikileaks revelations suggest that China may not be willing to protect North Korea for much longer.

The Federal Reserve is injecting $ 600,000,000,000 into the economy, primarily in the hope that it will boost stock prices and, in turn, the economy. It might work, but if it doesn’t the consequences could be severe.

Another poll confirms that Sarah Palin continues to be viewed negatively by the majority of American voters, but that doesn’t seem to matter to supporters who seem have a degree of adulation usually reserved for celebrities than serious politicians.

The retired superstar linebacker drove off a 30 foot cliff at 70 mph and walked away with barely a scratch.

Will a Republican-controlled Congress bring about the third Presidential Impeachment in American history? Jonathan Chait thinks it’s virtually certain that it will, I’m not so sure.