Outside the Beltway

Damon Linker writes, “Millions of people disagree with your political views. That doesn’t make them moral monsters.”

A revered Republican foreign policy guru has endorsed the Democratic nominee for president.

Gravity announced a minimum annual salary of $70,000. Almost everyone is unhappy.

The NYT paints the longshot senator as a happy warrior trying to win the White House by doing it his way.

A well-founded fear of ISIS seems to be drawing many of the former Soviet Republics in Central Asia closer to Moscow.

The intrepid foreign correspondent and editor Arnaud de Borchgrave has died, aged 88, of cancer.

The abrupt departure of Chuck Hagel says much more about Administration policy than it does about Chuck Hagel.

The burgeoning science of additive manufacturing is on the verge of being able to print functioning human organs.

Retired Marine lawyer Butch Bracknell and I tackle the subject for The Hill.

The President’s well-intentioned campaign against military sex crimes has backfired.

Benjamin Wallace-Wells wonders with some irritation “Why Henry Kissinger Never Goes Away.”

Snow days are no longer automatic vacation days for federal workers.

Dr. Alexandros Petersen, a scholar of Eurasian energy and a former colleague at the Atlantic Council, was killed in a bomb blast in Kabul.

Former Utah governor and ambassador to China Jon Huntsman succeeds Chuck Hagel.

Why is Apple unable to meet the demand for its products?

My latest for The National Interest has posted.

The award-winning political science group blog The Monkey Cage is moving under the masthead of the Washington Post:

In both Egypt and Syria, it’s damned if we do and damned if we don’t.

Your humble host is making a career move.

The president’s 2008 rival has gone from bitter foe to go-to deal broker.

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

Last night, the Atlantic Council honored Hillary Rodham Clinton, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, John S. Watson, Tony Bennett, and Juanes.

A sensational story, little solid information, and instant analysis are a bad combination