Outside the Beltway

Vice-President Cheney’s amoral defense of torture has come to define how most conservatives view the issue, and that’s a problem.

Vladimir Putin’s latest actions seems to have exhausted Germany’s patience.

Mike Huckabee seems to be making the moves necessary to run for President again, For reasons only he can understand.

End game? Or the potential spark of a wider war?

Provocative words from Vice-President Biden. But, are they realistic?

NATO seems intent on sending a signal to Vladmir Putin that there are limits to his patience.

Vladimir Putin seems to be getting a lot of love from cultural conservatives in the United States.

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

We spend more per capita than any other country in the world and yet we are outperformed on a key metric, life expectancy, by a large number of countries

Wendy Lower documents the half-million women who helped Hitler carry out the Holocaust.

Washington Post Magazine profiles a local woman with a horrible secret: her father designed and ran Auschwitz.

A bipartisan commission of elder statesmen confirms what we’ve known for years.

The anti-communist icon is once again in hot water for making idiotic comments.

Two years ago, Polish President Lech Kaczynski and 95 others were killed in a plane crash in Russia. A new report has “traces of explosives” in the debris.

Let’s take a trip back in time to see what some conservatives thought 2012 would look like if Barack Obama were elected President.

Mitt Romney’s speech last night was the best he’s ever given, but it’s impact may have been undercut but several odd production decisions that preceded it.

Today’s convention activities will include the opening salvos of an attack on the President’s foreign policy. This strikes me as a mistake.

Romney’s foreign tour didn’t go quite as well as planned, but it’s unclear how much the minor gaffes will actually matter.

Mitt Romney and Barack Obama traded barbs over the June jobs report, but neither one seems to have the answer to our problems.

Does the Romney campaign know the USSR doesn’t exist anymore? Of course they do, but the language they use still means something.

We’re literally choosing locking up drug offenders over investing in our children.

To Republicans, even thinking about engaging in diplomacy is enough to accuse the President of appeasement.

“The debt crisis is burrowing ever deeper, like a worm, and is now reaching Germany.”

We’re hearing the howls of a wounded bear.

Last night’s debate was about more than Rick Perry’s gaffe.

A legendary American soldier, General John Shalikashvili, has died.

WSJ has a blistering editorial seeking to put the NewsCorp hacking scandal in perspective.

The uprisings in the Arab world have led some to suggest that the Middle East isn’t “ready” to be free. They’re wrong.

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán was greeted with protests from some EU parliamentarians when he addressed them as its rotating president of the European Council.