Outside the Beltway

Turkey’s governing party suffered big setbacks at the ballot box yesterday.

FIFA’s President surprised everyone today by resigning, but he’s likely to stay in power for as long as another ten months.

Pollsters on both sides of the Atlantic have been trying to figure out why the polls released right up until the eve of the British General Election were so wrong. Here’s one theory, and it’s very compelling.

A new survey shows that Americans are becoming less Christian, and less religious overall.

With the election behind him, David Cameron’s biggest problems may be yet to come.

The Baltimore Police Department will finally be under the Federal microscope. But it took the death of Freddie Gray for it happen.

After weeks of polls predicting a political stalemate or worse, British voters delivered a strong win for David Cameron and the Tories.

Great Britain heads to the polls in less than a week, and it remains unclear just what’s going to happen.

I’m not sure this is a concern that rises to the level of an article at The Atlantic.

The Atlantic’s Alan Taylor has 50 photos from 50 years ago.

The Atlantic has a fascinating cover story by Graeme Wood titled “What ISIS Really Wants.”

The debate over whether kids need to be vaccinated against communicable diseases baffles me.

There’s not a whole lot the United States can do to respond effectively and proportionally to North Korea’s hacking attack against Sony.

A wholly successfully first test for NASA’s next generation manned space vehicle.

A new poll finds that a majority of Germans support sanctions against Russia, even if those sanctions end up hurting the German economy.

Black Friday chaos has crossed the pond.

The abrupt departure of Chuck Hagel says much more about Administration policy than it does about Chuck Hagel.

On substance, the President’s immigration actions aren’t very objectionable. How he is implementing them, though, is problematic and seems needlessly confrontational.

An unsurprising ruling from the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals that only seems to bring closer the day when same-sex marriage will be legal nationwide.

Quietly, oil prices have been falling for months now. That’s potentially a very big deal.

All of the major sports leagues are trying to stop New Jersey’s efforts to legalize sports gambling. They should not be allowed to succeed.

If the GOP wins the Senate in November, their majority could prove to be fleeting.

People possess a strong reciprocity instinct and are much more likely to purchase a product if they’ve taken a free sample.

Everyone knows that Israel has had nuclear weapons for decades. Don’t tell anyone—it’s a secret.

Does Hillary Clinton remember that she was Secretary of State for four years?

While not as big as previous months, the July Jobs Report was still mostly good news.

The U.S. and Europe have announced a new round of sanctions against Russia over the Ukraine crisis, but it’s not clear that the Russians will be motivated to change course.

Relying on the policies of a man who was President in a very different time is not a substitute for a rational foreign policy.

The burgeoning science of additive manufacturing is on the verge of being able to print functioning human organs.

The justice system works, there’s no need to scrap it.

A century later, the shots fired in Sarajevo 100 years ago still echo.

Once ubiquitous, checks are disappearing as a means of payment.

There’s little evidence for the conservative contention that the President has damaged America’s position in the world.

Far right parties are succeeding in Europe because the mainstream parties aren’t offering an alternative.

The very idea of a “war on religion” in the United States is absurd.

Benjamin Wallace-Wells wonders with some irritation “Why Henry Kissinger Never Goes Away.”

Snow days are no longer automatic vacation days for federal workers.

Wonkblog’s founder is leaving the Washington Post to start a new media outlet of his own.

The advice “Do what you love. Love what you do” is not without pitfalls.

Dr. Alexandros Petersen, a scholar of Eurasian energy and a former colleague at the Atlantic Council, was killed in a bomb blast in Kabul.

Former Utah governor and ambassador to China Jon Huntsman succeeds Chuck Hagel.