Outside the Beltway

However, he and his party have hardly taken over.

London’s iconic clock tower, known affectionately as “Big Ben” for some 150 years, has been renamed “Elizabeth Tower” in honor of QE2’s 60 years as royal figurehead.

America’s Drug War has caused more problems for Mexico than Fast & Furious ever will.

The candidate of the Muslim Brotherhood is the next President of Egypt, but the political future of Egypt itself remains quite murky.

President Fernando Lugo of Paraguay was impeached and removed from office this week.

The slow motion election continues at least one more day.

Gas prices are falling nationwide but that’s mostly because the economy kind of stinks.

Fast and furious, or a lot of sound and fury signifying not too much?

What hath a fury greater than a woman scorned? Hundreds of scorned women with Twitter accounts.

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.

Sequencing matters.

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?

British Prime Minister David Cameron accidentally left his 8-year-old daughter at a pub.