Outside the Beltway

Marine special operations forces have called themselves “Raiders” for years. Now it’s official.

Once again, only six or seven states are likely to matter.

Like nearly all of his fellow Republicans, Jeb Bush has adopted the disastrous foreign policy views that typified his brother’s Presidency.

Ben Carson will be entering the race for President next month, but don’t pretend for a minute that he’s a serious candidate.

Unlike most world leaders, Pope Francis is wiling to call a genocide a genocide.

Polling indicates that the American public opposes the GOP position on DHS funding, but that’s unlikely to change many minds on Capitol Hill.

The intrepid foreign correspondent and editor Arnaud de Borchgrave has died, aged 88, of cancer.

The terrorism wave that began with the massacre at the Charlie Hebdo offices has not ended with the killing of the perpetrators. A follow-on attack has occurred in Germany and there are reports of “sleeper cells” being activated in France.

There are again reports of Chinese frustration with the Kim regime in North Korea, but change is unlikely to happen in the DPRK until Beijing is ready to let it happen.

Voter Turnout was lower this year than in any midterm since the one held eleven months after the attack on Pearl Harbor.

The GOP added to its majority in the House, giving it the biggest majority it has had since Truman was President.

Something to keep in mind about the structure of Senate elections.

Politics, the law, culture, and a very old language collide.

Only one man can say that he has both recorded a jazz album with Lady Gaga and liberated a Nazi death camp.

Congress seems ready to avoid having to vote on expanded attacks against the Islamic State

Even with the passage of time, Watergate remains a singularly important event in American history

Scottish independence may be more likely than many think.

Relying on the policies of a man who was President in a very different time is not a substitute for a rational foreign policy.

Recent polls notwithstanding, Republicans and Democrats remain largely in lockstep when it comes to U.S. policy toward Israel.

There’s a new round of allegations about American spying on Germany.

More than any other language, English words are being adopted, and transformed, by other languages.

Reflections on a story making the rounds this Independence Day.

Obama is the worst President since FDR died? Only if you believe a mostly worthless poll.

While the world watches Ukraine, Central Asia could also be an area where Russia may seek to expand its territory.

Not surprisingly, Bill Clinton is the most admired recent President according to a new poll, but his predecessor seems to be underrated.

Some Republicans apparently think the key to their future lies in the past.

Once ubiquitous, checks are disappearing as a means of payment.

For the fourth time in 30 years, an American President spoke at Normandy to honor a day of sacrifice and triumph.

The President’s second speech to the Corps of Cadets is a vast improvement over the first.

Once again, President Obama’s attempt to communicate a foreign policy vision falls short.

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

The European far right has found a friend in an unlikely place.