Outside the Beltway

A legal victory, at least for now, for opponents of Donald Trump’s ban on immigration from seven majority Muslim nations.

As expected, Donald Trump yesterday signed Executive Orders targeting Muslims and refugees.

A journalistic legend has passed away just days after his retirement was officially announced.

A treasure trove of documents from a law firm in Panama could prove problematic for a large group of international leaders.

The execution of a prominent Shi’ite cleric has led to a rapid deterioration of the relationship between Saudi Arabia and Iran.

Donald Trump’s plan to exclude Muslims from the United States is provoking condemnation, and confusion, around the world.

Hillary Clinton’s recently announced policies toward the ISIS fight are as incoherent and misguided as President Obama’s and those of her Republican opponents.

The United States and Europe are giving everything the perpetrators of the Paris attacks hoped for.

The news that at least some of the men who were involved in the terrorist attacks in Paris were among the refugees who have arrived in Europe since the summer is likely to complicate an already complicated situation.

We are legally, morally, and practically obligated to respond. Let’s not do so stupidly.

America’s much touted international coalition against ISIS is, essentially a Coalition In Name Only.

President Obama came to office inheriting the legacy of one unnecessary war, and another that had faded from memory. He will leave office with Iraq and Syria in crisis, Europe uneasy, Yemen and Libya unstable breeding grounds for terrorism, and China doing whatever it is they’re doing.

In the wake of failure that could have been easily foreseen, the Obama Administration is ending a program to train so-called “moderate” Syrian rebels.

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

Do the nonprofit’s foreign donors create a conflict of interest?

The Atlantic has a fascinating cover story by Graeme Wood titled “What ISIS Really Wants.”

The price of oil is continuing to fall, but it won’t last forever.

The war against ISIS continues to silently escalate, with little input from the people’s representatives in Congress.

President Obama has opened a new front in his “war” against ISIS

Could economic chaos bring Egyptians back out into the streets?

Nearly six months later, it’s hard to find any good in the July military coup in Egypt.

Al Qaeda may be up to something, so take no chances.

The U.S. is now confirming that the Syrian government has used chemical weapons. What’s next?

The Administration’s decision to stick with the meme that the Benghazi attack was about a movie becomes more puzzling.

Some troubling, sad, and downright puzzling stories

Mitt Romney is criticizing the President over his Syria policy, but his alternative ideas aren’t very good.

My first piece for CNN has been posted at Fareed Zakaria’s Global Public Square.

After months of fits and starts, it appears anti-Gaddafi forces are on the verge of victory.

Freshman GOP Representative Allen West is a loose cannon and unfit for office.

Knowing his downfall was imminent, the former Egyptian dictator moved vast wealth out of rich of Western governments.

Sarah Palin waded into the foreign policy pool today with a piece about Iran, and it was about as empty as most of the other ideas on Iran that we’ve heard over the last six years or so from everyone else.

If the Obama Administration gets it’s way, your secure Internet communications won’t really be all that secure.