Outside the Beltway

The Boston Marathon bomber must be tried in a court of law.

What Miranda does and does not cover and what consequences follow if police do not comply.

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

The odds that any of the Senators who voted no on Manchin/Toomey will pay a political price for doing so is low.

Yesterday was not a good day for the Cable “News” Network.

A bipartisan commission of elder statesmen confirms what we’ve known for years.

A new report confirms that the United States did engage in torture in the wake of the September 11th attacks.

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

Peter Bergen says government crackdowns since the Oklahoma City and 9/11 attacks have made getting bomb making materials harder.

We shouldn’t overreact. But we shouldn’t fool ourselves either: We’re not safe.

For the moment, Hillary Clinton looks unbeatable if she chooses to run in 2016

An American fighting with Syrian rebels faces life in prison for firing an RPG against a government we’re trying to oust.

One in eight Americans support drone strikes against Americans on American soil.

Rand Paul’s questions about the nation’s drone war were only the beginning.

Mr. Paul Goes To Washington.

Congress is banding together on a bipartisan basis to fight the greatest problem facing the country: the precedence of the Distinguished Warfare Medal above the Bronze Star.

The Obama White House is not ruling out targeted strikes against Americans inside American territory.

Walter Russell Mead presents his sitrep of the War on Terror.

George Will declares solitary confinement tantamount to torture.

The smear campaign against defense secretary nominee Chuck Hagel has taken a bizarre turn.

It’s easier for your government to kill you than strip you of your citizenship.

The Obama Administration has given us a peek at its legal arguments for targeted killings and they are troubling to say the least.

Conservatives complaining about biased coverage from the liberal media should instead look in the mirror.

Ross Wilson, former US ambassador to Turkey, says yesterday’s suicide attack on our embassy in Ankara “was no Benghazi.”

The office working to close the prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba has been closed.

Despite some tough questions, Congressional Republicans didn’t land a glove on Secretary of State Clinton.

The idea of completely pulling out of Afghanistan after 2014 is very compelling.

Killing their leaders doesn’t seem to be impacting the ability of jihadi groups to recruit and motivate more terrorists.

Remember when the Bush administration was spying on calls Americans made overseas without a warrant? Those were the good old days.

Has Petraeus provided the basic explanation for the administration’s immediate responses to Benghazi?

The conflict between Israel and Hamas appears to be heading in one unfortunate direction.

An attempt to lay down some basic groundwork for discussing this story.

A passenger praying in the aisles will apparently get your plane priority landing privileges.

Without question, Barack Obama won the foreign policy debate in the 2012 campaign.