Outside the Beltway

Today’s foreign-policy disputes rarely consider the way America’s response to one crisis might affect another.

There’s plenty of blame to go around.

A pretty clear violation of the First Amendment.

A new poll indicates that most Americans don’t want to see the United States intervening overseas.

So, this happened.

Perhaps some justice for the casualties in the War On Drugs

Thanks to Edward Snowden, the Washington Post and the Guardian are Pulitzer Prize winners.

In retrospect, and in comparison with other recent Presidents, George Herbert Walker Bush’s four years in office were pretty darn good.

Jeremiah Denton, a Vietnam War hero and one-term US Senator from Alabama, has died. He was 89.

Americans are skeptical about getting involved in the Ukraine crisis. This isn’t a surprise.

A Jewish-American OSS hero has been denied the nation’s highest military honor.

The Supreme Court turns down a case dealing with student’s First Amendment rights.

My latest for The National Interest, “Hagel’s Defense Cuts: The Least Bad Choice,” is out.

Veteran newsman Garrick Utley has died from prostate cancer at the age of 74.

A rather impressive recovery from a career that was mostly dead in 2007.

John Boehner explains quite succinctly why nothing big is getting done in Congress.

Watch your language in Wilson County, North Carolina.

The “good war” no more.

Does a determination that NSA data collection practices are likely unconstitutional mean that Edward Snowden’s actions were, in some sense, justified?

WSJ’s Marc Myers has a fascinating chat with Keith Richards on the making of one of the Stones’ iconic tracks.

Some 2000 veterans of World War II were lobotomized by the VA. That’s awful but not outrageous.

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

A third term for any of these guys? Don’t count on it.

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

Conservatives have their own Kennedy myth to compete with the myth of Camelot.

Phil Carter draws attention to “The Vets We Reject and Ignore.”

A bizarre hit piece in National Journal gives the false impression that our military leaders are considering removing the president.

It’s no wonder there’s no compromise in Congress.

NSA Director General Keith Alexander really doesn’t like the idea of a free press.

My review of Andrew Bacevich’s latest book, Breach of Trust: How Americans Failed Their Soldiers and Their Country.

One of the dumber aspects of the current shutdown repeats itself.

Presidents have gotten away with ignoring Congress when it comes to foreign military adventures for a very long time.

The VA created an incentive system that rewarded fast, half-assed claim processing that denied complicated requests.

West Point graduates account for nearly one in fifty deaths in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

One of the nation’s papers of record is changing owners for the first time in 80 years.

Colonel Bud Day, who earned a Medal of Honor leading Vietnam POWs, had died, aged 88 years.

Chris Christie waded into the debate going on in the GOP over foreign policy. His comments were less than helpful to say the least.

The marriage equality battle is entering its next phase.

Some really bad advice for the GOP.

Focusing on Edward Snowden is largely a waste of time.

Rather than asking whether it was “worth it,” the important historical question regarding the Civil War is whether it could have been avoided.