Outside the Beltway

Open mouth, insert foot.

Wendy Lower documents the half-million women who helped Hitler carry out the Holocaust.

My latest for The National Interest, “Never Again, Except This Time,” has posted.

President Obama’s remarks before the United Nations were, at least in one particular part, disappointing.

A series of shocking revelations about Barack Obama’s past have not changed my view of the man who’s been in the White House three-plus years.

The differences between the parties when it comes to Iran are far less substantial than the candidate’s rhetoric would suggest.

Ahead of his big foreign policy speech, Mitt Romney has unveiled his “Foreign Policy and National Security Advisory Team” which “will assist Governor Romney as he presents his vision for restoring American leadership in the world and securing our enduring interests and ideals abroad.”

Was it wrong for the NFL to schedule its opening Sunday on the anniversary of the September 11th attacks?

The Netherlands is considering a new animal cruelty law that would effectively ban kosher and halal slaughter practices.

The United States is pressuring the Netanyahu government to move off its hard line.

Yes, bureaucracies can be annoying, but they are also vital for modern society.

Iran doesn’t like the logo for the London Olympics and is threatening to boycott if it isn’t changed.

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.

Would non-violence really have failed against the Nazis? History suggests maybe not….

Fidel Castro is back in the public eye, but he’s singing a slightly different tune now.

The only reasons Michael Kinsley can conjure for opposing the Park51 project are bigotry and political opportunism. Unless you’re a really smart columnist.

Rand Paul is apparently taking heat from some of his more socially conservative supporters after FEC reports indicate he received a donation from the owner of an Adult web site. People need to get a life.

President Obama’s decision to speak out on the so-called “Ground Zero Mosque” has turned what was a hot-button cable news item into a political issue that even his fellow Democrats don’t want to deal with.