Outside the Beltway

I’ll be liveblogging tonight’s Republican national security debate over at RealClearWorld along with a solid team of foreign policy analyst

The Secretary of Defense has some words of warning for those advocating military action against Iran.

Is it time to just admit that the good old days are over?

Everyone’s talking about jobs again. And it’s not a pretty picture.

It’s time to start being concerned about Europe.

Are the worries about China overtaking the United States realistic?

A major backer of Republican and Libertarian causes is under fire.

Much of politics is visceral rather than intellectual.

A new poll shows that Americans are starting to look East.

Ron Paul is again making the argument that American foreign policy has contributed to terrorism. He’s more right than wrong.

After months of fits and starts, it appears anti-Gaddafi forces are on the verge of victory.

Does Bachmann think the USSR is on the rise? I expect not, but her defense and fiscal policy skills still need some work.

Michele Bachmann is promising $2.00 gas. Not surprisingly, she has no idea how to achieve this seemingly impossible goal.

Watching the news and reading the op-eds makes it clear: America is doomed.

Yes, China’s GDP growth has been impressive for some time now, but it is not the sole way to understand development.

160 million girls are “missing” owing to selective abortion and cultural preferences for male children.

Is it reasonable to state that countries with less guns are more likely to become tyrannical than countries with more guns?

Palin has some odd things to say about US history.

While President Obama has had some amusing gaffes on his trip to London, including getting the year wrong in the guest book and an awkward toast to the Queen, his speech to Parliament today hit all the right notes.

Go The Fuck to Sleep, the children’s book aimed at parents, has become an Internet sensation and reached #1 on Amazon well before its release owing to a leaked copy.

Pakistan is trying to explain how the world’s most wanted man was able to hide in plain sight for six years, and failing badly.

Santorum has an interesting theory about the decline of great powers.

Congress is coming back to Washington and gas prices continue to rise. Expect a lot of demagoguery, but very little in the way of solutions.

President Obama is suffering in the polls because of high gas prices, but is there really anything he can do about them?

Francis Fukuyama: “In the developed world, we take the existence of government so much for granted that we sometimes forget how difficult it was to create.”

Prejudice and negative attitudes towards obese individuals is becoming a global norm, not just an American phenomenon.

America is about to enter a third war in the Muslim world with no clear idea of the end game.

The Obama Administration is asking the U.N. Security Council to authorize direct military intervention in Libya. The question is, why now?

We’ve been hearing about peak oil for years. But now some experts are warning of an even more serious crisis: Peak coffee.

We’re heading towards a future of higher food prices and more hunger.

Scientists have discovered that the Internet could be a useful collaborate tool.

As gas and oil prices rise, the pressure is increasing to tap into the Strategic Petroleum Reserve. It’s a dumb idea.

Global poverty has plummeted in recent years.

There are a number of signs coming out of Libya that indicate the regime is in serious trouble despite the willingness of the state to use violence on the crowds.

European subsidies have given Airbus a competitive advantage over America’s Boeing in commercial aircraft salesboein. The reverse is true on military aircraft.

How rich is the United States? Our poor are richer than the richest in India.

What happened to the 15 million jobs that were supposed to be created in the past 10 years but weren’t?

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