Outside the Beltway

McAuliffe pulling away?

Washington Post Magazine profiles a local woman with a horrible secret: her father designed and ran Auschwitz.

The White House confirmed today that the goal of any military intervention in Syria would be very limited. Which makes one wonder what the point of doing anything actually is.

Don’t expect the Federal Government to push for DUI reform.

TheTransportation Security Administration is expanding its purview to train stations and sporting events.

Al Qaeda may be up to something, so take no chances.

Potential trouble for Virginia’s Republican nominee for Governor.

Some striking data to illustrate the role slavery played in the economy of the South.

June’s Jobs Report was healthy, but the economy still needs to do better.

Thanks to archaic state laws, you can look at cars in a Tesla showroom, but in my states you can’t but anything there.

About $7 billion in military equipment now in Afghanistan will be scrapped rather than returned to the U.S.

The jobs news in May was good, but far from great.

The IRS spent $50 million on 225 employee conferences. What did the taxpayer get in return?

Several top Administration officials have secret email addresses, the Associated Press reports.

The sequestration cuts are two months old, and it seems pretty clear that the claims of doom we heard before they went into effect were heavily exaggerated.

The Virginia GOP’s nominee for Lt. Governor could pose a problem for the party.

The under-35 set are buying cars at a lower rate than they used to.

A government panel is recommending that the BAC limit for drunk driving be lowered nearly 40%.

The Senate moved last night to end the airport delays caused by furloughing air traffic controllers.

An American city was essentially shut down today. Was that the right thing to do?

We treat violence by lone individuals differently than organized violence. Race, religion, and national origin have nothing to do with that.

Are we heading toward an era where a diagnosis of mental illness becomes an instrument for state oppression?

March’s Jobs Report was nothing to write home about.

Conveying military experience to civilian human resources departments is hard.

About 8.1 percent of U.S. workers have commutes of 60 minutes or longer and nearly 600,000 have “megacommutes” of at least 90 minutes and 50 miles.

The Obama administration is promising massive cuts in public-facing services in the face of minuscule “cuts” to the budget.

Americans waste $121 billion a year because of traffic congestion.

A potentially significant ruling on Separation Of Powers.

The bizarre dynamics of Virginia politics.

The Commode of Transportation Edition OTB Caption Contest^TM is now over.

Some people on the right apparently want to return to this map.

A mostly positive, but mixed, jobs report drops five days before Election Day

Mayor Bloomberg has decided to hold the New York Marathon Sunday even though millions are still without power and the city infrastructure is unable to cope with normal activity.