Outside the Beltway

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.

The last thing that Haiti needed was for a former dictator to return, but that’s exactly what has happened.

The Stuxnet virus that has set back the Iranian nuclear weapons program by several years at least appears to have originated as a joint project between the United States and Israel.

Information made public by Wikileaks appears to have played a role in sparking the protest movement that has brought down the President of Tunisia.

America’s foremost tax foe has weighed in on the Afghanistan War debate.

What happens if Southern Sudan’s independence referendum succeeds?

Moqtada al-Sadr is back in Iraq, and it’s a good thing we’re on our way out.

Andrew Sullivan makes a rather bizarre charge offhandedly: “Who among the neocons would have thought that one of George W. Bush’s final legacies would be bringing pogroms, bombings and genocide to Christians in his new zone of freedom?”

Diplomacy means having to be nice.

A capsule look at the world situation as 2010 draws to a close.

Now that the US has ratified New Start, it’s Russia’s turn.

Sarah Palin waded into the foreign policy pool today with a piece about Iran, and it was about as empty as most of the other ideas on Iran that we’ve heard over the last six years or so from everyone else.