Outside the Beltway

Mitt Romney is criticizing the President over his Syria policy, but his alternative ideas aren’t very good.

We, as Americans, tend to have a limited knowledge of the institutional variation that exists across democratic systems around the world.

Meet Flame. A cyber threat that makes Stuxnet seem like child’s play.

Osama bin Laden’s death provides Barack Obama with an important political shield during the upcoming campaign.

The economic tea leaves don’t look disastrous, but they don’t look all that great either.

My latest for The National Interest,Insurmountable Obstacles in Afghanistan, has been posted.

Lt Gen Benny Gantz says Iran “is going step by step to the place where it will be able to decide whether to manufacture a nuclear bomb. It hasn’t yet decided to go the extra mile.”

Facts are stubborn things.

There’s a big hole in the latest sanctions against Iran.

An attack on Iran is likely to unleash consequences that we are unprepared to deal with.

Russia may be getting more involved in the Syrian conflict.

The cause of the pain you’re feeling at the pump has little to do with domestic energy policy.

A tragic incident in Afghanistan that’s likely to have tragic consequences.

Another good monthly jobs report

The differences between the parties when it comes to Iran are far less substantial than the candidate’s rhetoric would suggest.

Arizona’s senior Senator want’s to bomb Syria.

GM’s big gamble on the future, the Chevy Volt, isn’t yet paying off.

President Obama talks sports with Bill SImmons.

This is one of the most draw-droppingly stupid 29 seconds I have experienced in some time.

A pattern that never ends: Perceived insults lead to mayhem and murder.

Yet another sign that international intervention in Syria is most likely never going to happen.

We need to have opinions on a subject as serious as war with Iran.

Mitt Romney’s view of the ideal relationship between the United States and Israel is, at the very least. quite odd, and, potentially, dangerous.

One year later, Egypt’s revolution remains unfinished.

We, as a country, need to remember that do not hold levers that allow us to move events this way or that

Michael Hastings has yet another credulous story attempting to smear the United States military.

Philip Hammond addressed the Atlantic Council this morning in advance of a meeting with Leon Panetta.

Rick Santorum has some bizarre views when it comes to the dispute between the Israelis and the Palestinians.

Bernard Finel argues that those of us arguing against war in Iran are doing it wrong. He’s right.

Mitt Romney said the other day that the 2012 Election is about “the soul of the country.” This is most assuredly not true.

Vehement disagreement with the policy views of a country and prejudice based on immutable traits are not the same.

Where is the economy headed? The signals are mixed at best.

After 3,193 days and more than 4,000 lives, the American war in Iraq is officially at an end.

Yesterday’s encounter between Jon Huntsman and Newt Gingrich was less than it could have been.