Outside the Beltway

The European far right has found a friend in an unlikely place.

Reminding government employees that they are employees of the government is suddenly controversial.

Will the massacre of twenty children in a Connecticut elementary school mark a turning point in America’s gun culture? Don’t count on it.

Remember when the Bush administration was spying on calls Americans made overseas without a warrant? Those were the good old days.

My latest for The National Interest, “Why NATO Should Have Won the Nobel,” is out.

The speech did exactly what it was supposed to do: kick off Obama’s re-election campaign while disguised as a call for unity.

Why we shouldn’t be surprised that police are using tools of violence against protestors.

My latest piece for The Atlantic, “Is the U.S.-European Relationship Really in Decline?” is posted.

While President Obama has had some amusing gaffes on his trip to London, including getting the year wrong in the guest book and an awkward toast to the Queen, his speech to Parliament today hit all the right notes.

How much of public opinion is about tribal political identification and how much is about the actual policies themselves?

Glenn Beck seems to have more in common with End Time preachers than he does with a serious political analyst.

The blogging of Mark Levin’s magnum opus continues.

Inevitably, the Nazis made an appearance during yesterday’s debate over health care reform in the House. It’s time for it to stop, or at least time for the rest of us to stop taking seriously anyone who resorts to such arguments.

Daily Kos founder Markos Moulitsas’ new book, AMERICAN TALIBAN: HOW WAR, SEX, SIN, AND POWER BIND JIHADISTS AND THE RADICAL RIGHT, continues a long tradition in political polemics.

Americans on both sides of the aisle throw around words like “tyranny” and “fascism” about our system. But there are constant small reminders we are under the rule of law.

Readers may be familiar with the Green Lantern Theory of Geopolitics. Now, there’s a competing theory.