Outside the Beltway

The destruction of Syria’s stockpiles will be slow and laborious even if all goes according to script.

:Like his predecessors, President Obama’s speech last night exaggerated the threat that Syria poses in order to sell his plan to American voters.

My latest for The National Interest has posted.

Opposing interventionism and unnecessary and unwise military engagements is not isolationism.

“No More Baby Steps,” my first piece for Defense News, has posted.

Everyone knew the Fukushima disaster was bad. We likely underestimated how bad.

The May The Farce Be With You Edition OTB Caption Contest^TM is now over.

Japan’s National Debt has reached a level that’s somewhat incomprehensible.

In response to North Korean saber rattling and the rise of China, Japan is reassessing it’s military posture

To maintain growth China needs to consider its priorities.

President Obama has appointed a lot of donor’s and supporters to plumb Ambassadorial slots. That’s not at all unusual.

There are many fallacies contained within the GOP’s insistence that immigration reform must begin and end with “border security.”

North Korea’s nuclear weapons aren’t going anywhere.

The blowback from yesterday’s revelations about U.S. surveillance on European allies continues.

The latest NSA leaks are likely to prove to be diplomatically embarrassing.

Jerry Brown’s second go-round as governor has been very, very good to the Golden State.

Thanks to archaic state laws, you can look at cars in a Tesla showroom, but in my states you can’t but anything there.

Shouldn’t medical advances available in Germany be available in the United States and vice-versa?

The United States is currently negotiating for a U.S. troop presence in Afghanistan after 2014, but they’re not sharing their plans with the American people.

President Obama may regret drawing a line in the sand over Syrian chemical weapons.

In a chaotic week, one source of chaos was remarkably quiet.

So what, exactly, is going on in North Korea? And how should we respond to Kim’s bluster?

A tendency to expand objectives mid-fight has seen America fail in its last four major wars.

Habemus Papam

North Korea has conducted its third test of a nuclear weapon.

North Korea’s latest provocations may be testing the patience of their patrons in Beijing.

The notion that guns prevent tyranny is based on fantasy and movies, not reality.

Are we really going to do this again? The answer appears to be yes.

There are factions of the American right that really need to understand this.

Ross Douthat says American women should stop being decadent and have more babies, explaining that raising children is easier than it used to be, so there’s really no excuse for women to be so selfish.