Outside the Beltway

Former President Bill Clinton says President Obama should ignore the polls and intervene in Syria.

The United Nations has documented 92,901 dead in Syria’s civil war.

As if the region didn’t have enough problems.

Sometimes it seems like all John McCain does is appear on Sunday morning news shows. The problem goes deeper than that, though.

Has the West inadvertently handed Iran a victory in Syria?

Cellphones have achieved near complete market penetration, and the smartphone is leading the way.

Turkey has had along and ongoing struggle with democratic consolidation.

I have for months taken it as a given that she went on five Sunday morning talk shows and lied about what happened there. Did she?

How would the addition of Susan Rice and Samantha Power to the President’s foreign policy team affect policy toward Syria’s civil war?

Syria isn’t Libya.

Denied her chance at being Secretary of State, Susan Rice will be moving to a position that is arguably just as important in shaping American foreign policy.

Has the Arab Spring come to Turkey?

The same story yet again.

Shouldn’t medical advances available in Germany be available in the United States and vice-versa?

Syria’s violence is slipping across it’s borders.That’s not good news at all.

Signs and portents in the Middle East.

What’s going on in England and Sweden?

The US Senate wants to know why Apple and other big technology companies are paying so little into the US Treasury.

The French economy has drifted into recession for the second time in four years.

Large numbers of younger workers are having trouble finding work in many parts of the developed world.

John McCain is taking a break from advocating yet another war in the Middle East to make war against cable television companies.