Outside the Beltway

It’s 365 days and counting since the last reported case of piracy in the Horn of Africa.

Some are criticizing the US government subsidies to Tesla Motors for its Model S electric car, which sells for almost $100,000. Kevin Bullis argues that it’s a smart investment.

The infamous “red line” may not have been crossed after all. At least not by the Assad regime.

Is the White House distancing itself from the President’s “red line” remarks about Syria?

Some info from the World Drug Report

In fact, yes: the demand for drugs does come largely from the US.

Arming the Syrian rebels may do nothing more than prolong a seemingly endless war, and pull the United States into a conflict it shouldn’t be involved in.

The world oil markets aren’t too far away from being hit by the shock of massively increased demand from China. Somehow, we’ll have to adapt.

A new poll shows that 62% of Americans oppose American military intervention in Syria’s civil war.

John McCain is right that we shouldn’t send ground troops to Syria, but his idea for increased U.S. intervention in the country’s civil war is still too risky.

Shutting down media that the government doesn’t like is unlikely to solve the sectarian problems in Iraq.

After months of impasse, a new coalition has been formed in Italy.

President Obama may regret drawing a line in the sand over Syrian chemical weapons.

The CIA unsuccessfully lobbied to put Tamerlan Tsarnaev, the eldest of the Boston Marathon bombers, on the counterterrorism watch list in 2011.

There seems to be an effort underway to reassess the legacy of our 43rd President.

In a chaotic week, one source of chaos was remarkably quiet.

The man who changed the way Americans viewed newspapers, just before newspapers themselves began getting pushed aside by technology, has died at the age of 89.

A preventative strike against North Korea is a bad idea.