Outside the Beltway

Al Jazeera English is kicking the butts of the American news networks on the Egypt story. Why?

The coverage of Egypt shows an over-reliance on pundits and an under-reliance on actual experts.

The United States is facing a serious public relations problem among the Egyptian people.

One Republican Congressman is calling on President Obama to stand firmly behind our “friend” in Cairo, even though there’s little evidence we can trust him.

Mohammed el-Baradai had harsh words for Hosni Mubarak and the United States when he spoke today from house arrest.

The US has limited influence over events in Egypt–something that recent history should underscore (although not everyone appears to understand this fact).

The events in Egypt have led some to ask if the mere act of cutting off access to the Internet is, in itself, an human rights violation.

The Obama administration’s slow and cautious response to Egypt’s protest was frustrating. And correct.

The situatution in Egypt continues to escalate as the state strikes back at the prostests.

Should we spread liberal democracy by force? If necessary!

Amy Chua captured the two things we fear most: the Chinese and our children.

State and AID budgets are a rounding error in the Defense budget.

Anti-government protests raged in Egypt for a second day, and nobody seems to know where they’re headed.

Here’s how terrorists get past airport security: don’t bother to go through it.

Thirty years after the hostages were freed from captivity in Iran, the United States still hasn’t figured out how to deal with the Islamic Republic.

Today’s Foreign Desk includes comments on Brazil’s floods, developments in Ivory Coast, and Silvio Berlusconi’s sex scandal.

Inevitably, the Nazis made an appearance during yesterday’s debate over health care reform in the House. It’s time for it to stop, or at least time for the rest of us to stop taking seriously anyone who resorts to such arguments.

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán was greeted with protests from some EU parliamentarians when he addressed them as its rotating president of the European Council.

Brief takes on foreign affairs

Like it or not, human rights is only at the top of the agenda for countries that otherwise don’t much matter.

While the violence is down in Iraq, it’s not gone.