Outside the Beltway

Recent polling has shown the American public to be highly skeptical, at beast, of the Iran Nuclear Deal. That may not be enough to kill it in Congress, though.

China adds to its status as the honey badger of intellectual property law.

After 30 years in prison, Jonathan Pollard will be released later this year.

In bringing Holocaust imagery into the debate over the Iran nuclear deal, Mike Huckabee has displayed the intellectual bankruptcy of his position.

Reports are circulating that the Obama Administration is considering releasing Jonathan Pollard, and many are seeing it as an effort to placate Israel in the wake of the Iran deal.

The Afghan Army isn’t doing so well against the Taliban right now.

Good news for the President.

Any discussion of the Iran deal has to be about realistic alternatives, not fantasies.

The U.N. Security Council has approved the Iranian nuclear deal, and now the ball is in Congress’s court.

There are mutual embassies in Havana and Washington for the first time in 54 years. It certainly took long enough.

In the end, the odds that Congress can actually stop the new deal regarding Iran’s nuclear program are pretty low.

It’s easy to see what Greece thinks it still needs Europe, it’s more of puzzle why Europe thinks it needs to hang on to Greece.

Depending on who you listen to, it’s either peace in our time or an epic catastrophe.

Greece reached a new deal with European bankers that seems oddly similar to the one that voters rejected just a week ago.

In the past month, the Chinese stock market has lost more than 1/3 of its value.

Greek voters rejected the latest bailout package, but that only seems likely to make things even worse for them.

For the first time since 1961, there will soon be an American Embassy in Havana, and a Cuban Embassy in Washington. It’s well past time that this happened.

Greece’s Prime Minister seemed to give in to some of Europe’s demands today, but bankers are continuing to hold to the strict conditions they set last week.

The events of the past two weeks could allow the Republican Party to move forward.

The Greek Government is basically shutting the banking system down tomorrow as negotiations over its debt problems continue.

The Administration announced changes to the way the government handles hostage situations, but it really doesn’t amount to much.

It’s easier for an American citizen to go to Iran or North Korea than it is for them to go to Cuba, That’s insane.

Pope Francis’s new encyclical isn’t exactly being received positively by American conservatives, because they seem to be missing the point.

A word that has come in recent years to be used to refer chiefly to Muslim fanatics obviously applies to a man who murdered nine people because they’re black.

A well-founded fear of ISIS seems to be drawing many of the former Soviet Republics in Central Asia closer to Moscow.

Nine people died overnight in a shooting at an historic African-American Church in Charleston, South Carolina.

Thanks largely to a series of court decisions, same-sex marriage is effectively legal in all of Mexico.

In what seems to be a clear signal to Russia, the U.S. is considering pre-positioning military equipment in nation’s very close to Russian borders.

The head of the Spokane NAACP has apparently been lying about her racial background, and that’s led to a whole other argument.

In a case that took seven months to decide, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of the Presidency’s broad authority in foreign affairs, and inserted itself just a little bit in the thorny politics of the Middle East.

Turkey’s governing party suffered big setbacks at the ballot box yesterday.

Several of the top representatives of soccer’s governing body have been indicted by a Federal Grand Jury in New York.

Some unusually blunt, but true, language from the U.S. Secretary Of Defense.

Voters in Ireland have overwhelmingly approved a referendum legalizing same-sex marriage.

North Korea now claims it has miniaturized nuclear warheads sufficienctly so that they can be placed on missiles. They also say they can launch missiles from submarines.

Pollsters on both sides of the Atlantic have been trying to figure out why the polls released right up until the eve of the British General Election were so wrong. Here’s one theory, and it’s very compelling.

Mohammed Morsi, Egypt’s first truly-elected president, has been sentenced to death by the government which ousted him in a coup.

Fresh off an election victory, British Prime Minister David Cameron is set to propose a series of new measures to crackdown on extremism that raise serious civil liberties concerns.

The relationship between the United States and Saudi Arabia has seen better days.

The Vatican has announced that it will recognize Palestinian statehood, but this is not going to resolve the underlying issues that prevent a Palestinian state from actually coming into existence.

With the election behind him, David Cameron’s biggest problems may be yet to come.