Outside the Beltway

Another major campaign finance case from the Supreme Court.

The passage of a new same-sex marriage law has Democrats talking about Andrew Cuomo.

A victory for marriage equality in the Empire State.

President Obama came close to endorsing same-sex marriage last night, but stopped short yet again

Recent polls seem to indicate a shift in public opinion in a more libertarian direction.

A very provocative decision on same-sex marriage from an unlikely source.

Business Week’s cover story examines the coming implosion of the US Postal Service as we know it.

Fox News chairman Roger Ailes has come to regret the direction he took the network after the 2008 election.

The Navy is considering allowing its chaplains to perform same-sex marriages once “Dont ask, Don’t tell” ends.

The Bring Out Your Dead Edition OTB Caption Contest^TM is now over.

If you look at the Tea Party’s impact on state politics, you see it really isn’t much different from the Religious Right.

Whenever I despair at the current state of the Republican Party, I remind myself that things aren’t much better across the aisle.

Is asking to see a professor’s e-mails a legitimate open records request or is it an attempt at silencing a critic?

Regardless of one’s preferences in terms of endgame in Wisconsin, democracy will win out.

This video “Teachers Unions Explained” isn’t particularly fair but it’s nonetheless amusing.

Recent events in Wiscosin seem to undercut the hypothesis that public sector unions have undue political influence.

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

The Democrats appear ready to come home (or, as per the update, maybe not).

Two new polls reflect the extent to which public attitudes on same-sex marriage have changed dramatically over the past twenty years, and it’s only a matter of time before that’s reflected in the law.

As the standoff in Wisconsin drags on, there is no sign that the public accepts the argument being made about public sector unions by Governor Scott Walker and other Republicans.

At what point does the legitimate right to demonstrate cross the line into infringing on the rights of others?

Why can’t the Wisconsin Stand-off end in compromise?

Labor and management are not simply adversaries at the negotiating table; they represent two very different cultures, if not social classes.

Scott Walker’s attempt to crush the Wisconsin public employee unions may be the first wave in a fight to elect Republican governors in 2012.

Opposition to marriage equality is no longer the wedge issue it used to be.

A former Democratic state attorney general thinks Wisconsin’s Republican governor may have violated state ethics laws while on a prank phone call.

Huge news in the marriage equality debate today as the Obama Administration has decided not to defend the Defense of Marriage Act in court anymore.

Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker did not campaign on the union-busting package he’s proposing now.

Federal laws designed to protect unions add yet another wrinkle to the Wisconsin standoff.

There are a lot of issues on the table, so to speak, in the WI situation. Here I try to entangle them a bit.

A new national poll suggests that moves to restrict the collective bargaining rights of public sector unions are not popular with the public at large:

Should public schoolteachers make more money than the people paying their salaries?

Of the 314 police and firefighter unions in Wisconsin, only four endorsed Scott Walker.