Outside the Beltway

Bill Jacobson and Glenn Reynolds seem to be overly amused that Conor Friedersdorf has the title of “senior editor” over at Andrew Sullivan’s blog.

The authors of Global Governance 2025 offer a wide range of trajectories for the international system depending on whether we adequately address known threats.

We need global cooperation to deal with a growing variety of serious problems. But we can’t even agree amongst ourselves on policy options.

Fidel Castro is back in the public eye, but he’s singing a slightly different tune now.

Responding the near-collapse of the Greek economy, forestalled only by a massive bailout from their brethren, the EU’s finance ministers agreed this morning to submit the outlines of their budget plans for approval by the European Commission.

Will Israel attack Iran ? You’d better hope not.

Daily Kos founder Markos Moulitsas’ new book, AMERICAN TALIBAN: HOW WAR, SEX, SIN, AND POWER BIND JIHADISTS AND THE RADICAL RIGHT, continues a long tradition in political polemics.

The new tea party candidate in Delaware seems to be a rather odd bird.

The housing market that existed from the late 1990s until 2007/08 was an historical anomaly, and anyone expecting a return to those days is fooling themselves.

The New York Times realizes that most Republicans just don’t care that Ken Mehlman is gay. Surprise, neither do most Americans at this point.

The New York Times is reporting that the Obama Administration has convinced Israel that Iran is much further away from developing nuclear weapons than Tel Aviv fears, but there seems to be something else going on here.

The webmaster of a local Republican chapter linked a YouTube video that implies Democratic women are ugly.

The title says it all.

Every new report out of Iran seems to bring us closer to the moment when Israel has decided it’s heard enough. What happens if that day actually happens ?

Megan McArdle cites an academic article someone disagrees with, proving she’s a dishonest hack.

The Senate’s stonewalling of unemployment benefits extension makes no sense.

Some people are saying that David Petraeus deserves promotion to a rank last held by Omar Bradley.

Will LeBron James’s departure push upset Ohioans to the right ?

Is political office in Stan McChrystal’s future?

“It’s illogical to hunt a species to extinction.” – Spock

A roundup of some of the more intelligent commentary on the Big Picture issues in the brouhaha of the day.

A group of oceanographers suggest that the oil from the Deepwater Horizon explosion will leave the Gulf in a few months. What happens then?

The Florida Senate race has taken a turn that few people expected thanks to the political impact of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill.