Outside the Beltway

Yesterday’s events are likely to be a game changer, but how the game plays out depends largely on how Europe reacts.

There’s a new round of allegations about American spying on Germany.

A piece at Foreign Policy provides a chance to give some thought to institutions.

How long should we expect people to work?

A century later, the shots fired in Sarajevo 100 years ago still echo.

Not surprisingly, Bill Clinton is the most admired recent President according to a new poll, but his predecessor seems to be underrated.

There’s little evidence for the conservative contention that the President has damaged America’s position in the world.

It appears what we’ve got here is a failure to communicate.

NATO seems intent on sending a signal to Vladmir Putin that there are limits to his patience.

In retrospect, and in comparison with other recent Presidents, George Herbert Walker Bush’s four years in office were pretty darn good.

As everyone anticipated, the Crimean referendum came out in favor of secession from Ukraine and union with Russia. What happens next is another question entirely.

My first piece for The Hill, “Crimea is not Armageddon,” posted this morning.

Veteran newsman Garrick Utley has died from prostate cancer at the age of 74.

In case you needed a further reason to dismiss Jerome Corsi (and some general thoughts on what Corsi represents).

Conservatives have their own Kennedy myth to compete with the myth of Camelot.

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

We’re almost certainly going to launch punitive strikes against Syria. They’ll almost certainly be ineffective.

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

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

For the fourth day, American and other embassies became the focus of mass protests in many Muslim nations.

Under German law, this ceremony, which Jews believe dates from the time of Abraham, is now illegal.

The New Yorker’s John Cassidy sees “Good and Bad News for Obama” in Nicolas Sarkozy’s defeat.

“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.

Gaddafi is dead, but it was still wrong for the United States to get involved in Libya.

Protests at least loosely affiliated with the Occupy Wall Street movement were conducted around the globe yesterday.

If you haven’t experienced the joys of peddling around Germany with 15 of your closest friends while enjoying several liters of Munich’s finest, you’re too late.

The latest push for laws against bullying is another example of the Nanny State rum amok.