Outside the Beltway

Is it reasonable to state that countries with less guns are more likely to become tyrannical than countries with more guns?

My latest piece for The Atlantic, “Is the U.S.-European Relationship Really in Decline?” is posted.

Go The Fuck to Sleep, the children’s book aimed at parents, has become an Internet sensation and reached #1 on Amazon well before its release owing to a leaked copy.

On Palm Sunday, French Christians stormed a museum and slashed Andres Serrano’s Piss Christ

Australia is the only major country with lower tax rates than the USA.

Obama is visiting Brazil and Chile while American fighting men join the coalition against Libya.

Is Saudi Arabia the next domino to fall in the Middle East? The Royal family is hoping that money will be enough to make sure that doesn’t happen.

Facebook has come up with new settings to meet the needs of users in same-sex relationships.

Brief takes on foreign affairs

With just over a week to go before the 112th Congress convenes, battle lines are already being drawn in battle over the defense budget.

Is calling Côte d’Ivoire “Ivory Coast” linguistic colonialism? Where do we draw the line when English names for countries go out of vogue?

President Obama is supporting the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. Is this the end of America?

There’s been much talk recently about treason charges in the Wikileaks case, an most of it has been entirely wrong.

The Feds famously got notorious mobster Al Capone on tax evasion charges. Will WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange be done in by sex crimes?

Daniel Larison’s “The Case Against NATO” makes compelling reading. In my New Atlanticist post “The Case Against the Case Against NATO,” I explain why it’s wrong.

If it’s September, it must be time for Mahmoud Ahmadinjad to stand up before the United Nations General Assembly and say something completely insane.

Both Congress and the Obama Administration have stepped up enforcement of immigration laws–at immense cost to both the budget and the courts.

The Iroquois lacrosse team has been caught in a classic Catch-22. The U.S. government won’t recognize their passports and they won’t use U.S. passports as a matter of principle.