Outside the Beltway

The Supreme Court ruled in favor of a Muslim woman who was refused a job because of her hijab.

Donald Trump is probably just messing around with all of us again, but he’s certainly acting like someone who’s running for President.

The first batch of email from Hillary Clinton regarding the 2012 attack in Benghazi have been released, and they don’t reveal anything we didn’t already know.

Mohammed Morsi, Egypt’s first truly-elected president, has been sentenced to death by the government which ousted him in a coup.

Fresh off an election victory, British Prime Minister David Cameron is set to propose a series of new measures to crackdown on extremism that raise serious civil liberties concerns.

A new survey shows that Americans are becoming less Christian, and less religious overall.

Seymour Hersh is out with a conspiracy theory about the death of Osama bin Laden that just doesn’t make sense.

For reasons only he can understand. South Carolina’s senior Senator will be entering the race for the White House early next month.

Some people in the media can’t seem to get it through their heads that speech they consider hateful is entitled to as much protection as speech that they support.

Two men were killed last night before they could carry out what appears to be a planned attack on an anti-Islam event in Texas.

Rand Paul bucks Republican orthodoxy on Iraq, Libya, and negotiations with Iran.

Just over a week after a death at the hands of police that remains incredibly suspicious, Baltimore is the sight of violent riots.

An attack on al Qaeda outposts in January resulted in the death of two hostages, but also resulted in the death of two high value al Qaeda targets.

The Holocaust was a very atypical case of genocide.

Ben Carson doesn’t seem to know much about foreign policy or history. And he doesn’t belong on anyone’s list of serious Presidential candidates.

He’s back.

Freedom of speech means freedom for all speech, even when it is racially offensive.

The Atlantic has a fascinating cover story by Graeme Wood titled “What ISIS Really Wants.”

ISIS apparently now has a foothold in Libya, and is making inroads in Yemen.

The Who’s Your al-Baghdadi? Edition OTB Caption Contest^TM is now over.

Yet another attack on religious freedom in Europe.

Daniel Larison is far less ambivalent about our war on ISIL than me.

Most in the international relations community are not amused by the president’s National Security Strategy.

A big change in an important nation in the most volatile part of the world.

Pope Francis has earned a reputation as a liberal in comparison to recent predecessors but he’s no liberal.

Their editor and nine colleagues dead, their offices destroyed, the newspaper is not missing a beat.

The men responsible for the Charlie Hebdo massacre are dead, but the problems for France, and the rest of Europe, may just be at the beginning.

At least 11 are dead and 10 wounded in an attack on free expression.

Was Man Haron Monis a terrorist, or just a lone nut who had latched on to the rhetoric of ISIS to justify his own delusions? In the end, it hardly matters.

A hostage crisis has been unfolding overnight at a cafe in Sydney, Australia that has apparent links to international terrorism.

Well, so much for that “people’s revolt” that brought down a military dictator.

The shocking has become routine. We’re no safer because of it.

The House Intelligence Committee has concluded that the conspiracy theories regarding the 9/11/2012 attack in Benghazi are not supported by the evidence. That’s unlikely to change anyone’s mind, though.

The latest ISIS video is horrible and barbaric but we should not take the bait they are offering before considering the consequences of our actions going forward.

Americans have wildly distorted understandings of the society around them.

Yesterday’s apparent terrorist shooting in Ottawa reveals again a phenomenon that seems difficult if not impossible to stop in advance.

A massacre is about to unfold “a stone’s throw” from Turkey’s border.

A fired Oklahoma worker beheaded a woman and was attacking another when he was shot. Workplace violence? Or terrorism.

President Obama has opened a new front in his “war” against ISIS

Iran and the United States are on the same side in the fight against ISIS, whether they like it or not.

After keeping his distance from them for three years, President Obama is placing much misplaced hope in the “moderate” Syrian rebels,

It would appear that someone needs to introduce the Air Force to Article VI of the Constitution.

Obama’s current policy—tactical level strikes with no obvious long-term strategic aim—may well be the best we can hope for.