Outside the Beltway

You’d think that in today’s world employers wouldn’t have trouble finding qualified employees. You’d be wrong.

Ahead of his big foreign policy speech, Mitt Romney has unveiled his “Foreign Policy and National Security Advisory Team” which “will assist Governor Romney as he presents his vision for restoring American leadership in the world and securing our enduring interests and ideals abroad.”

After months of fits and starts, it appears anti-Gaddafi forces are on the verge of victory.

Yes, China’s GDP growth has been impressive for some time now, but it is not the sole way to understand development.

President Obama wants a million hybrid cars on the road by 2015. That’s easier said than done.

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

A profile of George Mason economist and blogger Tyler Cowen offers this amusing description: “Cowen, 49, has round features, a hesitant posture, and an unconcerned haircut.”

While President Obama has had some amusing gaffes on his trip to London, including getting the year wrong in the guest book and an awkward toast to the Queen, his speech to Parliament today hit all the right notes.

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.

Breathless hysteria over the trend toward a less white America misses an important fact: most Hispanics are white.

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

America is about to enter a third war in the Muslim world with no clear idea of the end game.

We’ve been hearing about peak oil for years. But now some experts are warning of an even more serious crisis: Peak coffee.

A few thoughts/historical examples, as to why I am guarded in my optimism on Egypt.

European subsidies have given Airbus a competitive advantage over America’s Boeing in commercial aircraft salesboein. The reverse is true on military aircraft.

How rich is the United States? Our poor are richer than the richest in India.

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

Diplomacy means having to be nice.

Should the UN expand the number of permanent Security Council members?

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.

We need global cooperation to deal with a growing variety of serious problems. But we can’t even agree amongst ourselves on policy options.

According to Paul Krugman’s latest column, the massive destruction of World War Two was actually good for the U.S. economy. Sadly, there are people who consider him an expert.

Since 9/11 there has been a steady trickle of stories about jihadists hooking up with Latin American drug cartels and the like. Here is a guide of story points that can help you identify when such a story is almost certainly bogus.

Do we care about lithium reserves in Afghanistan?