Outside the Beltway

The complicated issues surrounding U.S. aid to Egypt.

Egyptians celebrated last night, but the future is far from clear.

if reports are to be believed, there is a coup d’etat underway in Egypt.

The United Nations has documented 92,901 dead in Syria’s civil war.

Just because NSA data mining is legal, that doesn’t mean it’s proper or that the American people should tolerate it.

How would the addition of Susan Rice and Samantha Power to the President’s foreign policy team affect policy toward Syria’s civil war?

Has the Arab Spring come to Turkey?

The infamous “red line” may not have been crossed after all. At least not by the Assad regime.

President Obama said today that he wants to move forward with closing the prison at Guantanamo Bay but there’s little he can do on his own.

A bipartisan commission of elder statesmen confirms what we’ve known for years.

A new report confirms that the United States did engage in torture in the wake of the September 11th attacks.

Providing a little context for Pope Francis’ background+Erick Erickson needs to learn a little history.

The gambling mogul is self-reporting violations of the law against bribing foreign officials.

The government of Malaysia paid a lot of money to get some blogs placed at various outlets.

Hundreds of illegal immigrants have been released from detention ahead of possible budget cuts.

The Chinese are hacking Washington institutions to unearth the secret plan under which the town operates.

Samantha Power is leaving the Obama administration to spend more time with her family. No, really.

The Russian adoption ban isn’t sitting well with many Russians.

Recent comments from Russian officials suggest that the nation may be preparing to cut its longtime ally loose.

Increasingly, the right of people to speak is being sacrificed in the name of “tolerance” and “security.”

Osama’s driver, who was convicted of only technical crimes, has had his conviction overturned on a technicality.

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

Not surprisingly, television and reality don’t really coincide.

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

Based on its recently passed platform, the Democratic Party has given up any pretense of putting civil liberties ahead of “national security.”

A new book by one of the Navy SEALs involved in the raid that killed Osama bin Laden differs significantly from the official version put forward by the government.

Under German law, this ceremony, which Jews believe dates from the time of Abraham, is now illegal.

Whether or not it’s proper to call the FRC a “hate group,” the persecution complex being displayed in the wake of Tuesday’s shooting is absurd.

Another step in the ongoing diplomatic showdown over the founder of Wikileaks.

The latest round of the Chick-fil-A controversy is perhaps the most absurd yet.

The White House and the Pentagon are buildings, not unitary actors.

The US government has an odd and unproductive view on the concept of talks.