Outside the Beltway

International relations prof mostly assign readings by male scholars. Female profs are slightly less likely to do so.

Senate Democrats are now just one vote away from being able to block a veto override, meaning that the effort to block the Iran Nuclear Deal will most certainly fail.

After 30 years in prison, Jonathan Pollard will be released later this year.

In bringing Holocaust imagery into the debate over the Iran nuclear deal, Mike Huckabee has displayed the intellectual bankruptcy of his position.

Good news for the President.

The U.N. Security Council has approved the Iranian nuclear deal, and now the ball is in Congress’s court.

In the end, the odds that Congress can actually stop the new deal regarding Iran’s nuclear program are pretty low.

Depending on who you listen to, it’s either peace in our time or an epic catastrophe.

North Korea now claims it has miniaturized nuclear warheads sufficienctly so that they can be placed on missiles. They also say they can launch missiles from submarines.

The relationship between the United States and Saudi Arabia has seen better days.

Congress can’t really do anything to stop a nuclear deal with Iran, and John Boehner knows it.

Chinese analysts are telling their American counterparts that North Korea’s nuclear arsenal is far more sophisticated than previously believed.

Conditioning an Iranian nuclear deal on recognition of Israel is foolish, unrealistic, and very bad diplomacy.

One freshman Senator seems to think that war with Iran would be easy, just like Republicans used to think that war against Iraq would be easy.

Democrats like New York Senator Chuck Schumer could end up being the ones that scuttle the Iranian nuclear deal.

Scott Walker’s response to the Iranian nuclear deal is perhaps the most irresponsible so far.

The Iranian nuclear accords are barely 24 hours old and some people have already made up their mind about them.

Talks in Geneva have reached a framework agreement regarding Iran’s nuclear program that, if it’s complied with, appears at first glance to be about the best deal available under the circumstances.

Rand Paul now says he signed the Cotton Letter to strengthen the Administration’s bargaining position.

The first installment of my analysis of the National Security Strategy.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is apparently realizing that speaking to Congress may not be a good idea after all.

By inviting Prime Minister Netanyahu to address Congress, Republicans are damaging the U.S. relationship with Israel.

There are again reports of Chinese frustration with the Kim regime in North Korea, but change is unlikely to happen in the DPRK until Beijing is ready to let it happen.

There’s not a whole lot the United States can do to respond effectively and proportionally to North Korea’s hacking attack against Sony.

The U.S. Government has formally charged North Korea with responsibility for the hacking attack on Sony. How to respond to that attack is a more complicated question.

The Justice Department won’t force James Risen to testify in a legal investigation, but faces a new choice in a different case.

Everyone knows that Israel has had nuclear weapons for decades. Don’t tell anyone—it’s a secret.

The Obama Administration’s legal justification for war against ISIS is laughably flimsy.

As talk begins of expanding the war against ISIS into Syria, it is becoming long past time for Congress to exercise its Constitutional function.

Once again, Republicans demonstrate why they have problems with Latino voters.

Relying on the policies of a man who was President in a very different time is not a substitute for a rational foreign policy.

George Will has come under criticism for pointing out what seems to be an undeniable fact.

Yesterday’s events are likely to be a game changer, but how the game plays out depends largely on how Europe reacts.

If President Obama does decide to use military force in Iraq, he should be required to seek Congressional approval beforehand.

China sends a message to Kim Jong Un.

Predicting the end of the DPRK is a fool’s errand.

Getting nuclear weapons out of Ukraine in 1994 was a good idea, not a mistake.

The Budapest Memorandums pertain solely to nuclear attacks.

Russian invasion or legitimate secessionist movement? And does it matter?

In case you needed a further reason to dismiss Jerome Corsi (and some general thoughts on what Corsi represents).

Iran has promised to roll back parts of its nuclear program in exchange for sanctions relief.

Kim Jong Un seems to share his father’s taste for alcohol.

There are many choices in dealing with Iran’s nuclear program there are many choices, but some are better than others.

The opponents of the temporary deal reached in Geneva have been making some ridiculous historical analogies.

Small steps from both sides in the Iranian nuclear negotiations, but too early to say that we’ve reached a solution.