Outside the Beltway

Tim Pawlenty’s foreign policy speech shows him siding with the hawks, and joining in the neocon distortion of Reagan’s legacy.

Ppartisan politics no longer stops at the water’s edge. This is a bad sign for the Republic.

The selection process for the Joint Chiefs has been most odd.

Donald Trump figures that, because he’s rich, he’s qualified to be president.

Warren Christopher, Bill Clinton’s first Secretary of State, has died at 85.

Did President Obama pull off a diplomatic masterstroke? Or is he muddling through?

John Kerry’s Washington Post op-ed supports U. S. leadership in establishing a no-fly zone in Libya.

Hosni Mubarak may hang on to some semblance of power longer than many expected in the middle of last weeks chaos, mostly because there are few other alternatives right now.

Sarah Palin said something about the crisis in Egypt, but it’s not at all clear what she meant.

The Obama administration’s slow and cautious response to Egypt’s protest was frustrating. And correct.

State and AID budgets are a rounding error in the Defense budget.

Diplomacy means having to be nice.

The lawyer who argued The Pentagon Papers case points out how Julian Assange is not Daniel Ellsberg, and how prosecuting him could have disastrous results for press freedom in the United States.

With just over a week to go before the 112th Congress convenes, battle lines are already being drawn in battle over the defense budget.

Sarah Palin waded into the foreign policy pool today with a piece about Iran, and it was about as empty as most of the other ideas on Iran that we’ve heard over the last six years or so from everyone else.

One of the most active American diplomats of the past twenty-five years has passed away.

Inspired by the reaction to the Julian Assange case, a feminist writer proposes dangerous changes to American rape laws.

Are American diplomats lying to reporters because they figure our citizens can’t handle the truth?

The two English language newspapers who have been Julian Assange’s accomplices in disseminating stolen secrets defend themselves.

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

Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo has won the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize. He probably doesn’t know it, though, because he’s currently sitting in a Chinese prison.

The Glad Handing Edition OTB Caption Contest^TM is now over.

This year’s Zogby poll of public opinion in the Middle East exhibits a marked shift on the Obama Administration, Iran.

NASA Administrator Charles Bolden said in an interview that he considered raising Muslim self-esteem about their contributions to science one of the goals of his agency.