Outside the Beltway

According to reports, the President had no idea that the NSA was listening to the phone calls of foreign leaders until this summer.

The latest revelations about National Security Agency surveillance outside the United States have caused quite an uproar overseas.

The blowback from yesterday’s revelations about U.S. surveillance on European allies continues.

Does it matter if political leaders like each other on some personal level? Sometimes it does.

There may be only one solution to saving the Euro.

“The debt crisis is burrowing ever deeper, like a worm, and is now reaching Germany.”

The Greek referendum could be a disaster for the global economy. And might be the right thing to do.

European leaders continue to kick the can down the road on a crisis that could bring down the global economy.

Dan Drezner believes those worrying that we’re seeing the global meltdown of 2008 repeat itself are kidding themselves.

Just how significant is Sarah Palin in the grand scheme of things?

The Netherlands is considering a new animal cruelty law that would effectively ban kosher and halal slaughter practices.

The free world rallied around the United States after the 9/11 attacks–but not all back the killing of the man who ordered it.

Once again, Angela Merkel has held her ground and forced the other EU leaders to accommodate Germany’s policy concerns. This time, it’s a set of amendments to the Lisbon Treaty to deal with sovereign debt emergencies.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel declare multiculturalism in Germany to be a “failure.” Proof that anti-immigration activists in the United States are correct, right?

President Obama’s powers of persuasion were severely lacking at the G-20 Summit this weekend.