Outside the Beltway

A Tea Party battle in the Cornhusker State

One Virginia county wants to regulate how many people you can have in your home for a visit.

I’m uneasy about a world in which a private conversation, illegally recorded, can be used in this fashion.

Not only does the headline-making rancher have unique views on the nature of both grazing fees and the federal government, he has some positively retro (to use a kind word) views on race.

Who watches Sunday morning talk shows anymore?

Tomorrow, the Supreme Court will hear argument in a case that will likely be this era’s version of the Betamax case.

On screen body objectification is now equal opportunity.

What could possibly go wrong?

A step up from The Colbert Report.

Jeremiah Denton, a Vietnam War hero and one-term US Senator from Alabama, has died. He was 89.

After national attention, a North Carolina school has rescinded its ban on a 9-year-old boy’s wearing of a “girl’s” backpack.

Politics, media, and the attention span of the average American haven’t really changed as much as we think.

Veteran newsman Garrick Utley has died from prostate cancer at the age of 74.

Ellen Page is gay. So is Michael Sam. Shouldn’t we be aiming for the day when the response to news like this is “So what?”

Kevin Faulconer proves that Republicans can win in California, but not if they follow the path laid out by the party’s far right wing.

Apple’s “1984” Super Bowl commercial ran only once, but it remains in a class by itself.

Tonight, the American political system stops to engage in the biggest waste of time ever invented.

Marijuana legalization is an issue that unites people across the political aisle.

There are some signs that there may be room to strike a deal on the extension of unemployment benefits, but it’s likely to require some drama on Capitol Hill before it happens.

One of the dumbest rules in sports may mean that people in three cities can’t see their teams play this weekend.

The New York Times Benghazi report raises as many questions as it purports to answer.

Watch your language in Wilson County, North Carolina.

The “good war” no more.