Outside the Beltway

A Federal Judge deals with the clash between individual rights, law enforcement, and technology.

Once again, Ron Paul showed last night why he could never win the Republican nomination.

Apparently, people who work for the government are surfing the World Wide Web.

Can the government force a criminal defendant to reveal a computer password? A Federal case in Denver is dealing with that question right now.

Rick Santorum has some bizarre views when it comes to the dispute between the Israelis and the Palestinians.

Ron Paul is doing well right now solely because of the unique characteristics of Iowa and New Hampshire.

For years, analysts have worried that Iraq’s tenuous hold on stability would collapse upon the withdrawal of US forces. We’re now watching it happen.

After 3,193 days and more than 4,000 lives, the American war in Iraq is officially at an end.

Once again, Newt Gingrich speaks without thinking.

The National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2012 authorizes the President the authority to indefinitely detain persons, even American citizens arrested on American soil, without trial because they allegedly support the enemy.

Why we shouldn’t be surprised that police are using tools of violence against protestors.

The most disturbing part of Saturday’s debate came when most of the GOP candidates endorsed torture.

The Secretary of Defense has some words of warning for those advocating military action against Iran.

An attack against Iran’s nuclear weapons research facility won’t be an easy thing.

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

The TSA is deploying VIPR units to weigh stations and bus stations in TN.

What’s the logic behind Iran’s alleged plot to commit terrorist attacks inside the United States?

The Justice Department claims to have disrupted a major Iranian-backed terrorist attack in the United States.

Ten years ago tomorrow, President Bush announced that “the United States military has begun strikes against al Qaeda terrorist training camps and military installations of the Taliban regime in Afghanistan.”

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

One in three U.S. veterans of the post-9/11 military believes the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan were not worth fighting.

In an interview, President Obama says that Americans are worse off than they were four years ago.

A major backer of Republican and Libertarian causes is under fire.

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

When the FBI essentially creates a terrorist in order to arrest him, have we really accomplished anything?

My latest for The Atlantic, “The Thorniest Question: When Can a President Order an American Killed?” has been posted.

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

We won’t solve our fiscal problems by soaking “the rich.”

The U.S. War in Afghanistan sounds disturbingly similar to the Soviet one.

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

Paul Krugman chose to mark the the 10th anniversary of September 11th with an odd blog post.

Not every 10th anniversary of a horrible surprise attack has been treated the same.

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

The short-lived national unity spawned by the attacks of a decade ago was re-kindled for a few hours as former presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush joined with Vice President Joe Biden to honor Flight 93.

Measuring our progress a decade after the 9/11 attacks

Measuring our progress a decade after the 9/11 attacks