Outside the Beltway

The news media of 1914 didn’t see World War One coming, but it’s not clear that we’re any better.

A century later, the shots fired in Sarajevo 100 years ago still echo.

It’s sure beginning to look like a civil war in Iraq, albeit a rather one sided one at the moment.

Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the 21st Century is making quite a splash.

There are lots of different ways of looking at the situation in Ukraine—historical, game theoretical, and interpersonal perspectives.

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

Does the Attorney General really think advocacy is a crime?

Few subjects rile members and veterans of military service more than changes to the uniform.

Why are chemical weapons a “red line” in a war where so many have been killed?

The president’s public dithering on Syria is drawing jeers from friend and foe alike.

John McCain is right that we shouldn’t send ground troops to Syria, but his idea for increased U.S. intervention in the country’s civil war is still too risky.

The Iraq War did significant damage to the legacy of the Republican Party.

The first seven men to be awarded the Medal of Honor for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan received it posthumously. Clinton Romesha will be the fourth in a row that’s lived to meet the president.

For the first time in 68 years, neither major party candidate for President has served in the military. Does this matter?

Mitt Romney is making claims about Naval readiness that are, at best, misleading.

It’s the 5% versus the 1% moreso than the 99% against the 1%.

Was it wrong for the NFL to schedule its opening Sunday on the anniversary of the September 11th attacks?

Dan Drezner believes those worrying that we’re seeing the global meltdown of 2008 repeat itself are kidding themselves.

Thomas Ricks makes the case that JFK was the worst President of his century but his argument misses the mark.

The CIA has declassified the last six documents from the World War One era.

A new biography of Adolf Hitler analyzes new documents about his World War I service and “concludes that he was not the hero he was later made out to be and that his radicalization shouldn’t necessarily be attributed to his wartime experiences.”

Overnight, we celebrate the biannual ritual of resetting all our clocks so as to save daylight. Oddly, the amount of daylight continues to heed its own rhythms.

The last American veteran of a conflict which ended nearly a century ago has died.

The Presidency has lost the aura of mystique that used to surround it, and that’s a good thing.

A crippling, and technologically advanced, computer virus and attacks against Iranian nuclear scientists lead to only one conclusion; someone is doing everything they can short of military action to make sure Iran doesn’t develop nuclear weapons.

If the polling is anywhere close to accurate, a Republican wave will come crashing down today, repudiating the first two years of the Obama administration. What does it mean?

Would non-violence really have failed against the Nazis? History suggests maybe not….

Yes, when you blame one group of people for the actions of other, especially irrationally so, that qualifies as scapegoating.

Contrary to what you read on bumper stickers, retired Lt. Col William Astore argues that not every soldier is a hero. He’s right.