Outside the Beltway

My first piece for CNN has been posted at Fareed Zakaria’s Global Public Square.

Updates to the Gross Domestic Product numbers for quarter two aren’t good, but they could have been worse. Still, the risk of recession is considerable.

Ben Bernanke didn’t offer many clues in his speech today, but one wonders if he really has any tricks left up his sleeve.

While Sarah Palin continues to tease her supporters about a possible Presidential run, the damage she could do to the GOP becomes even more apparent.

With a hurricane bearing down on the East Coast, the House Majority Leader is engaged in an accounting exercise.

That a popular two-term governor of Utah is being rejected by likely Republican primary voters as insufficiently conservative shows just how extreme American politics has gotten.

Before achieving astounding success, Steve Jobs had to experience disappointment and failure.

It’s a shame that Duverger’s Law doesn’t come with criminal penalties.

He’s been out of office for more than two years, but George W. Bush is still being blamed for the state of the economy.

The U.S may be on the verge of committing the next decade to the future of Afghanistan.

Why Big Army has trouble with small wars.

More examples of fantasy Reagan.

Rubio may be wowing conservatives audience, but is his rhetoric grounded in reality?

My latest for The National Interest is posted under the somewhat misleading headline “NATO Fails in Libya.”

Dick Cheney’s long-awaited book’s out and he promises lots of bombshells that will have heads exploding in DC.

Meet your new Republican frontrunner.

A Navy board of inquiry consisting of three admirals has voted to keep Captain Owen Honors, who was relieved as captain of the Enterprise, on active duty.

Her appeal is not her ideas, policies, or achievements but her personality and appeal to the red meat base.

Is the NYPD becoming too much like the CIA?

The Postal Service believes it can save itself by making service worse. Something about that doesn’t compute.

Either a bunch of bloggers or one of the world’s smartest economists doesn’t understand economics.

If Palin runs and loses, is that the end of Palin?

The world is likely to get worse before it gets better.

When an earthquake hits, people flood the internet with posts about it–some within 20 or 30 seconds.

Rick Perry is leading the GOP field in Iowa, but there are warning signs for Republicans as a whole if you look deeper.

Success in Libya does not make the American mission any less unjustified than it was on the day President Obama announced it.

Money isn’t the only benefit some receive for their work.

Many of the clergy in Alabama are not happy with the state’s new immigration law.

Prosecutors as asking a Judge to dismiss all charges against Dominique Strauss-Kahn, because that’s their only option.

There are 164 technically acceptable transliterations of the name of Libya’s soon-to-be-former dictator.