Outside the Beltway

The question of how the world’s most wanted man could’ve hidden in plain sight in Pakistan continues to be asked.

Bin Laden spent the last half-decade in a compound where his only contact with the outside world was a few couriers.

How exactly was the most wanted man in the world able to hide in this house without anyone in Pakistan knowing about it?

A Pakistani man named Sohaib Athar unwittingly became part of history in the early hours of Sunday morning when he started telling twitter about some odd events in Abbotabad, Pakistan

The only people responsible for the murders in Afghanistan are the people who committed them, but the demagogues like Terry Jones deserve condemnation as well.

The Japanese government has announced that the Fukushima Reactor suffered a partial meltdown.

Will one of the worst natural disasters to hit Japan in centuries change the relationship between the Japanese government and the people?

President Obama is once again catching flak for his leisure activities.

A March 12 explosion at the earthquake-damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Okuma, Japan, appears to have caused a reactor meltdown.

The damage in Japan from today’s quake is dramatic and heartbreaking.

The Dalai Lama will give up his political role in the Tibetan government-in-exile and shift that power to an elected representative.

An op-ed by a Hao Leifeng in China’s Global Times argues that “Actor Charlie Sheen is a classic example of the difference in Western and Eastern values and norms.”

Is the Chinese economy headed for a correction?

Like it or not, human rights is only at the top of the agenda for countries that otherwise don’t much matter.

While the violence is down in Iraq, it’s not gone.

The latest wrong of documents from Wikileaks show that American diplomats are as worried about Pakistan as the rest of us, and not quite sure how to deal with the situation.

The latest Wikileaks revelations suggest that China may not be willing to protect North Korea for much longer.

McCain brings up “regime change” in re: the DKRP and China apparently isn’t doing enough.

There is at least one simple reason why dealing with the North is so difficult.

Tensions are on the rise again on the Korean Peninsula after North Korea shelled a South Korean island.