Outside the Beltway

Europe’s anti-immigrant, xenophobic far right scored major victories in France yesterday.

The attack in San Bernardino has seemingly left the Administration’s anti-terror strategy in disarray, so the President is addressing the nation tonight to say, well, something I guess.

A vote is still as much as two years away, and support for staying in the E.U. still has the most support, but support for the idea of a British exit from the European Union has grown in the past several months.

France’s President has spent the week trying to forge and agreement on an anti-ISIS policy, but the two nations that matter the most also disagree the most.

The United States and Europe are giving everything the perpetrators of the Paris attacks hoped for.

Another European capital is on edge over fears of a terror attack.

French officials have confirmed that Abdelhamid Abaaoud, the man believed to be the plotter of last Friday’s attacks in Paris, was killed in a police raid early Wednesday morning. This doesn’t mean authorities in France or elsewhere in Europe are any less concerned about future attacks, though.

France launched its first attacks against ISIS even as the investigation into Friday’s attacks continues, but it’s not clear that the retaliation really accomplished anything.

We are legally, morally, and practically obligated to respond. Let’s not do so stupidly.

A Dutch inquiry has largely confirmed what was widely believed about the fate of Malaysian Airlines Flight 17.

California’s legislature has approved a bill that would legalize physician assisted suicide in the nation’s largest state.

With the election behind him, David Cameron’s biggest problems may be yet to come.

President Obama thinks that it would be a good idea if everyone were forced to vote. He’s wrong, and his idea is most likely unconstitutional.

The intrepid foreign correspondent and editor Arnaud de Borchgrave has died, aged 88, of cancer.

The United Kingdom will stay united, but it may never be the same again.

It’s hard for a party to win four straight presidential elections. The Democrats may pull it off.

Only two 2013 college football games attracted more viewers that Tuesday’s World Cup match vs. Belgium.

Staff Sergeant William Guarnere, made famous by the “Band of Brothers” miniseries, has died aged 90.

We spend more per capita than any other country in the world and yet we are outperformed on a key metric, life expectancy, by a large number of countries

The GOP’s approval numbers have fallen like a stone, but it’s unclear whether this will matter in 2014.

Lieutenant General Michelle Johnson will be the first woman to lead a service academy.

As Congress eyes the Defense budget for cuts, some are drawing attention to the lavish housing of our top brass.

President Obama has appointed a lot of donor’s and supporters to plumb Ambassadorial slots. That’s not at all unusual.

Absent DOMA, the Full Faith and Credit Clause would seem to make gay marriage legal across the land.

Our eggheads isn’t as smart as they thinks.

What does the US Constitution actually provide in terms of guidance for governance?

New York City’s Mayor wants to control the size of soft drinks.

The problem with Europe may not be the Euro, but the fact that there really aren’t any Europeans.

Local newspapers in Belgium inexplicably don’t want to be linked by Google and are using copyright law rather than a robots.txt file to enforce their wishes.

Frank Jacobs explains how “in German, you can tell with some degree of certainty which general area someone hails from by the way they tell the time at quarter past ten.”

A new round of Wikileaks documents is out, and it opens the door on diplomatic correspondence previously hidden from the public.

Mohandas Ghandi pioneered the idea of non-violent resistance, but there are times and places where non-violence is little more than a ticket to a death camp.

A combination of news and some lunchtime satire.