Outside the Beltway

After a long wait, gays and lesbians in Australia have achieved marriage equality.

Ambassador Karlov is mostly likely not a modern day Archduke Franz Ferdinand.

The situation in the Middle East just potentially became much more complicated.

One of the pioneers of the technology revolution of the past four decades has passed away.

Donald Trump’s plan to exclude Muslims from the United States is provoking condemnation, and confusion, around the world.

The news that at least some of the men who were involved in the terrorist attacks in Paris were among the refugees who have arrived in Europe since the summer is likely to complicate an already complicated situation.

The U.S. is set to ramp up its contribution to dealing with the Syrian refugee crisis, but there’s a lot more we can do.

In what seems to be a clear signal to Russia, the U.S. is considering pre-positioning military equipment in nation’s very close to Russian borders.

A plan to distribute migrants from the conflicts in the Middle East and North Africa across the entire European Union seems destined to cause political conflict.

The Obama Administration took some fire yesterday for recent Ambassadorial Appointments, but the President’s record has been consistent with those of his recent predecessors.

Americans have long been lampooned for not speaking a second language. Now our cousins across the Pond are getting it, too.

Not surprisingly, Bill Clinton is the most admired recent President according to a new poll, but his predecessor seems to be underrated.

President Obama is rewarding unqualified hacks who raised huge sums for his campaign with ambassadorships.

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

Let’s take a trip back in time to see what some conservatives thought 2012 would look like if Barack Obama were elected President.

Eight of Cameroon’s 37 Olympians are “missing.”

Mitt Romney’s view of the ideal relationship between the United States and Israel is, at the very least. quite odd, and, potentially, dangerous.

Paul Krugman’s latest column, “Depression and Democracy,” is simply bizarre.

Business Week has a fascinating profile of Dietrich Mateschitz, whom they dub “Red Bull’s Billionaire Maniac.”

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán was greeted with protests from some EU parliamentarians when he addressed them as its rotating president of the European Council.

A capsule look at the world situation as 2010 draws to a close.

The disaster that began last Monday in Hungary continues to unfold.

Daniel Larison’s “The Case Against NATO” makes compelling reading. In my New Atlanticist post “The Case Against the Case Against NATO,” I explain why it’s wrong.