Outside the Beltway

One Professor suggests we sacrifice yet more of our freedom in the wake of the embassy protests in the Middle East.

The career of Larry Schwartz, who is the Counselor for Public Affairs at the US Embassy in Cairo, is over.

Mitt Romney’s foreign policy weaknesses are starting to become apparent.

My latest for The National Interest, “Freedom of Speech and Religion in Egypt and Libya,” has posted.

Mitt Romney’s initial response to the attacks in Egypt and Libya displayed a tendency to jump the gun rather than wait for the facts.

A day of protests over a film nobody has ever heard of has lead to the death of the U.S. Ambassador to Libya.

Moderate Republicans in the House are starting to become more assertive in voicing their frustrations with how Congress is operating.

Michele Bachmann and several other Members of Congress are engaging in the despicable tactics of Joe McCarthy.

However, he and his party have hardly taken over.

The candidate of the Muslim Brotherhood is the next President of Egypt, but the political future of Egypt itself remains quite murky.

The slow motion election continues at least one more day.

Let’s leave Egypt to the Egyptians.

Sequencing matters.

The heady days of revolution in Egypt have been replaced with the cold light of political reality.

A new ruling from Egypt’s highest court has set in motion a chain of events that could end very badly.

There is a disturbing trend in Western nations toward enforcement of laws against “insulting” religions.

The factors influencing Russian policy in Syria are many, and some of them are quite ancient.

The phrase “American Taliban” is usually off the mark. However, sometimes it is closer to the mark than we might like.

Facts are stubborn things.

Marie Colvin of the Sunday Times and Remi Ochlik of Reuters have become the latest journalists to die reporting on the massacres in Syria.

Yes, the US Constitution has been the most successful such document in human history. That does not mean it is a good template for other countries.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg had some advice on Constitution drafting for Egyptians

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

Censorship or sound business practice?

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

To Republicans, even thinking about engaging in diplomacy is enough to accuse the President of appeasement.