Outside the Beltway

One in eight Americans support drone strikes against Americans on American soil.

Rand Paul’s questions about the nation’s drone war were only the beginning.

The Obama White House is not ruling out targeted strikes against Americans inside American territory.

Walter Russell Mead presents his sitrep of the War on Terror.

“Killing Americans,” my latest for The National Interest, has posted.

The Obama Administration has given us a peek at its legal arguments for targeted killings and they are troubling to say the least.

The office working to close the prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba has been closed.

The notion that guns prevent tyranny is based on fantasy and movies, not reality.

Killing their leaders doesn’t seem to be impacting the ability of jihadi groups to recruit and motivate more terrorists.

Will the massacre of twenty children in a Connecticut elementary school mark a turning point in America’s gun culture? Don’t count on it.

The Pentagon considers those killed by Nidal Hassan at Fort Hood three years ago victims of workplace violence, not terrorism.

Osama’s driver, who was convicted of only technical crimes, has had his conviction overturned on a technicality.

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

The Romney campaign’s critique of the President’s foreign policy record is weak, and based on bad history.

For the fourth day, American and other embassies became the focus of mass protests in many Muslim nations.

The Romney campaign is doubling down on bizarre foreign policy pronouncements.

One Professor suggests we sacrifice yet more of our freedom in the wake of the embassy protests in the Middle East.

My latest for World Policy Review, “Oversight or Not, Drones Are Here to Stay,” has posted.

From one Nobel Peace Prize winner to another.

US Army Special Forces are the best we have at working with far-flung villagers. Are they good enough?

The United States may have slowed down Iran’s nuclear program without firing a shot–not counting the one at our own foot.

Is there a Romney Doctrine?

My first piece for The New Republic, “Why the Obama Administration’s Drone War May Soon Reach a Tipping Point,” is up.

The cause of the pain you’re feeling at the pump has little to do with domestic energy policy.

Attorney General Eric Holder offered a somewhat alarming defense of the Administration’s policy on targeted killings.

Not surprisingly, most of the Republican candidates for President aren’t too keen on reducing the excessive growth in Executive Branch power.

Time Magazine has chosen “The Protester” as its Person Of The Year. Let the outrage ensue.

Conservative groups are upset because a new reality show depicts Muslim-Americans as, well, normal Americans.

The CIA’s drone war in Pakistan has gotten so out of hand that the Pentagon and State Department are reigning it in.

We’re learning more about the Obama Administration’s decision to kill Anwar al-Awlaki

Where should we look to understand the failings of the government?

Giving the President the unchecked power to kill American citizens raises some serious red flags.

During last night’s debate, Mitt Romney repeated a charge that has become part of the conservative zeitgeist. But is it true?

The FBI has been using some odd materials to train its counterterrorism agents.

What does the apparent outcome of the war in Libya mean for the so-called “Responsibility To Protect” doctrine?

A take on the conflict that’s probably different from the one you’ve been reading.

Leon Panetta has been brought in to oversee significant cuts to the U.S. Defense budget. Meanwhile, we’re in six wars.

A few Republicans have picked up on John McCain’s criticism of critics of the Libya mission as being “isolationist.”

Last night, the President basically announced that America’s longest war had entered it’s end game.