Outside the Beltway

Hey Uncle, you’re fired.

Even as it defies China’s illegal territorial claims with military flights, the Obama administration is urging US airlines to comply.

China sends a message, and the U.S. responds. What happens next is anyone’s guess.

For some same-sex couples with a military spouse, living together on base is proving difficult to implement quickly.

Cathy’s husband and Jess’ father, Jer, was killed in the shooting spree at the Navy Yard.

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

A husband and wife do unrelated, and perfectly innocent, Google searches, and get a visit from the FBI.

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.

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.

After many attempts to manufacture grand scandals out of very little, Republicans may finally have a legitimate outrage on their hands.

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.

Our current approach isn’t working.

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

Things are heating up on the Korean Peninsula again.

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

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.

Some interesting developments in Pyongyang.