Outside the Beltway

Several key members of the Syrian government were killed in a suicide bomb attack today in Damascus.

From one Nobel Peace Prize winner to another.

What hath a fury greater than a woman scorned? Hundreds of scorned women with Twitter accounts.

Mitt Romney’s confrontational approach to Russia makes no sense.

A man named Carlos killed a woman named Wanda Lopez. Texas executed a different man named Carlos for the crime.

When Dan Drezner tweeted “I’m not going to read anything dumber than this today,” my inclination was to scoff. He actually undersold it.

The blind Chinese activist who daring escape from house arrest set off a diplomatic brouhaha that grabbed the world’s attention is about to get his wish to come to America.

What seemed like a diplomatic success has begun to unravel very quickly.

The voter ID issue goes on the road.

China’s government may be more “efficient,” but it’s hardly a model for the rest of the world.

Is the United States a serious country? Should we be?

Ruth Bader Ginsburg had some advice on Constitution drafting for Egyptians

We, as a country, need to remember that do not hold levers that allow us to move events this way or that

The problem with Europe may not be the Euro, but the fact that there really aren’t any Europeans.

Big news from North Korea.

We’re running out of excuses.

The most disturbing part of Saturday’s debate came when most of the GOP candidates endorsed torture.

Huntsman will gain little if any traction and none of the frontrunners really helped or hurt themselves.

A dwindling proportion of students are majoring in STEM fields. They’re likely making the wise choice.

Some information on Joseph Kony and the LRA.

Obama is trying to get into Guinness under “US President with Most Simultaneous Wars”

What’s the logic behind Iran’s alleged plot to commit terrorist attacks inside the United States?

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.”

Reports are coming out of Libya that paint the Libyan rebels in a very unkind light.

Under new policies, deportation efforts will be concentrated on people who pose a threat to society. It’s a sensible policy, so of course it’s being denounced.

The U.S. and its allies are calling on Bashar Assad to step down, but there’s little we can do when he says no.

British courts are handing out swift and harsh sentences for people involved in last week’s riots, including four-year prison sentences for two 20-somethings for Facebook postings in support of the mayhem.

Will the trial of Hosni Mubarak actually change anything?

The world is starting to denounce the crackdown in Syria, but the reaction seems unlikely to go much beyond strongly worded statements.

I’m continually shocked when demonstrably bright and accomplished people fall in love with authoritarian states.