Outside the Beltway

Mitt Romney’s confrontational approach to Russia makes no sense.

Jeffrey Goldberg asks, “What if Mitt Romney were Jewish?”

Let’s leave Egypt to the Egyptians.

Mitt Romney believes he could take America to war without Congressional involvement.

Saudi Arabia’s monarchy has suffered the loss of Crown Prince Nayef, the successor 88-year-old King Abdullah.

The heady days of revolution in Egypt have been replaced with the cold light of political reality.

A new ruling from Egypt’s highest court has set in motion a chain of events that could end very badly.

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

The factors influencing Russian policy in Syria are many, and some of them are quite ancient.

The president has come a long way from his days as a “liberal law professor who campaigned against the Iraq war.”

The first shots have been fired in cyberspace. How will it end?

Mitt Romney is criticizing the President over his Syria policy, but his alternative ideas aren’t very good.

We, as Americans, tend to have a limited knowledge of the institutional variation that exists across democratic systems around the world.

Meet Flame. A cyber threat that makes Stuxnet seem like child’s play.

Osama bin Laden’s death provides Barack Obama with an important political shield during the upcoming campaign.

The economic tea leaves don’t look disastrous, but they don’t look all that great either.

My latest for The National Interest,Insurmountable Obstacles in Afghanistan, has been posted.

Lt Gen Benny Gantz says Iran “is going step by step to the place where it will be able to decide whether to manufacture a nuclear bomb. It hasn’t yet decided to go the extra mile.”

Facts are stubborn things.

There’s a big hole in the latest sanctions against Iran.

An attack on Iran is likely to unleash consequences that we are unprepared to deal with.

Russia may be getting more involved in the Syrian conflict.

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

A tragic incident in Afghanistan that’s likely to have tragic consequences.

Another good monthly jobs report

The differences between the parties when it comes to Iran are far less substantial than the candidate’s rhetoric would suggest.

Arizona’s senior Senator want’s to bomb Syria.

GM’s big gamble on the future, the Chevy Volt, isn’t yet paying off.

President Obama talks sports with Bill SImmons.

This is one of the most draw-droppingly stupid 29 seconds I have experienced in some time.

A pattern that never ends: Perceived insults lead to mayhem and murder.

Yet another sign that international intervention in Syria is most likely never going to happen.

We need to have opinions on a subject as serious as war with Iran.

Mitt Romney’s view of the ideal relationship between the United States and Israel is, at the very least. quite odd, and, potentially, dangerous.