Outside the Beltway

Bin Laden spent the last half-decade in a compound where his only contact with the outside world was a few couriers.

How exactly was the most wanted man in the world able to hide in this house without anyone in Pakistan knowing about it?

A Pakistani man named Sohaib Athar unwittingly became part of history in the early hours of Sunday morning when he started telling twitter about some odd events in Abbotabad, Pakistan

Breaking News.

Congress is coming back to Washington and gas prices continue to rise. Expect a lot of demagoguery, but very little in the way of solutions.

Britain’s Prince William marries Catherine Middleton at Westminster Abbey, giving her a ring of Welsh gold.

You thought the birther insanity was over? Silly you.

Will days of strong economic growth ever return? And what happens if they don’t?

Superman will renounce his American citizenship!

An aide’s compliment about the president “leading from behind” has generated controversy.

Singing the 1974 Carl Douglas classic “Kung Fu Fighting” can get you arrested in England.

President Obama is suffering in the polls because of high gas prices, but is there really anything he can do about them?

The NYT says it’s time for U. S. advisers and military air traffic controllers on the ground in Libya.

Events in Syria, and the world’s response to them, are revealing the moral bankruptcy of the justification for the war in Libya.

The Pentagon is frustrated that the Obama administration doesn’t “seem to understand what military force can and cannot do.”

Is there a magic formula to fix soaring gas prices? A Washington Examiner editorial claims to have found it.

Francis Fukuyama: “In the developed world, we take the existence of government so much for granted that we sometimes forget how difficult it was to create.”

A version of a piece I wrote Wednesday, titled “NATO’s Death Greatly Exaggerated,” has finally been published at Foreign Policy under the title “Back in the Saddle: How Libya Helped NATO Get Its Groove Back.”

The law of war is not fully clear when applied to modern conflicts.

Stephen Walt doesn’t expect Obama’s foreign policy to change along with the names on the org chart.

Andrew Bacevich refers to Hillary Clinton, Susan Rice, and Samantha Power as “the Three Harpies.”

My first piece for The American Conservative, which they’ve titled “War Isn’t for Everyone–The military needs civilian control, not citizen soldiers,” is in the May issue.

Should transparency stop at the water’s edge?

Defense Secretary Gates hinted this week that the U.S. would stay in Iraq if the Iraqis wanted. It doesn’t seem like they do.

The Federal government is funding a Pakistan version of Sesame Street for $20 million.