Outside the Beltway

Score one for Team Bush?

Could anyone have imagined a decade ago a scenario when the United States would go to war with France by our side and England on the sidelines?

Some Members of Congress are calling for a debate before any strikes on Syria. They’re absolutely right.

The architect of President Obama’s re-election campaign is going to work for the Tories.

Gay bars around the world are banning Russian vodka to protest the lack of gay rights in that country.

A new poll shows public approval for the Supreme Court nearing a all-time low.

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

A new study says Twitter doesn’t break news faster than the wires. But nobody claims it does.

Contemporary Americans accept actions by the state that were once the cause for revolt.

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.

Not surprisingly, Edward Snowden has been formally charged in connection with the leak of classified NSA documents.

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

Jean Stapleton, an accomplished stage and screen actress who achieved entertainment immortality playing opposite Carroll O’Connor as Archie Bunker’s long-suffering wife Edith, has died at the age of 90:

Big Brother is watching us. And he may be watching us a lot more after what happened in Boston.

Matt Yglesias has a smart push-back against the lamentations of the decline of journalism.

Olympic paralympic champion Oscar Pistorius has been arrested after the fatal shooting of his girlfriend.

“Killing Americans,” my latest for The National Interest, has posted.

For the New Year, how about challenging your ideas just a little bit?

Will a disagreement over accounting rules increase the bad feelings between China and the U. S.?

Prince Charles has been waiting for his mom to die for a very long time.

Not surprisingly, television and reality don’t really coincide.

There are signs that some Romney supporters have already decided their candidate is going to lose.

The Romney campaign is doubling down on bizarre foreign policy pronouncements.