Outside the Beltway

The latest ISIS video is horrible and barbaric but we should not take the bait they are offering before considering the consequences of our actions going forward.

The Supreme Court will decide if Congress can override American foreign policy when it comes to declaring who has dominion over Jerusalem.

Only one man can say that he has both recorded a jazz album with Lady Gaga and liberated a Nazi death camp.

Iran and the United States are on the same side in the fight against ISIS, whether they like it or not.

What the West does in response to Russia’s actions in Ukraine is largely up to Europe, not the United States.

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

The English-speaking and Scandinavian countries are very different.

More than any other language, English words are being adopted, and transformed, by other languages.

The news media of 1914 didn’t see World War One coming, but it’s not clear that we’re any better.

It’s sure beginning to look like a civil war in Iraq, albeit a rather one sided one at the moment.

The Virginia DMV is threatening to crackdown on companies providing innovative car services to consumers.

For the fourth time in 30 years, an American President spoke at Normandy to honor a day of sacrifice and triumph.

On of the last surviving members of the “Band of Brothers” does it again.

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

Far right parties are succeeding in Europe because the mainstream parties aren’t offering an alternative.

Parties described as “far right” or “extreme right” have done very well in Europe’s most recent elections.

The search for more than 200 missing Nigerian schoolgirls is not going well, and part of the blame lies with the Nigerian government.

Today’s foreign-policy disputes rarely consider the way America’s response to one crisis might affect another.

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

Not surprisingly, Russia’s acquisition of Crimea comes with quite a potential bonanza in natural resources.

Boko Haram is threatening to sell the 200-plus Nigerian girls it has kidnapped into slavery.

A new poll indicates that most Americans don’t want to see the United States intervening overseas.

Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the 21st Century is making quite a splash.

On Sunday, it’s the Day Of Four Popes.

The removal of chemical weapons from Syria is nearly complete. Does Obama deserve credit for that?

There may be no resolution to what has become the most expensive search in history.

It’s simple: We just have to define the problem and then solve it.

There are lots of different ways of looking at the situation in Ukraine—historical, game theoretical, and interpersonal perspectives.

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

Russian invasion or legitimate secessionist movement? And does it matter?

Just when it became safe to keep your shoes and tablets on, a new threat to the friendly skies has emerged: toothpaste.

The idea that Amanda Knox was subjected to what we consider “double jeopardy” doesn’t seem to withstand scrutiny.

After eight years in a coma, Ariel Sharon has passed away.

Is 435 the right number?

The U.S. delegation to Russia’s Sochi Olympics will feature no high profile politicians and several openly gay athletes.

The opponents of the temporary deal reached in Geneva have been making some ridiculous historical analogies.

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

Thanks largely to France, this weekend’s efforts to reach an interim deal on Iran’s nuclear program fell apart.