Outside the Beltway

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

Jon Huntsman is not going to be the Republican nominee in 2012, but he seems ready to carve out a niche for himself.

Does Bachmann think the USSR is on the rise? I expect not, but her defense and fiscal policy skills still need some work.

Not only is the US outspending all our allies and competitors combined in real dollars on defense, we’re doing so in terms of GDP as well.

What’s the bottom line in the Texas jobs discussion?

Michele Bachmann is promising $2.00 gas. Not surprisingly, she has no idea how to achieve this seemingly impossible goal.

Dan Drezner believes those worrying that we’re seeing the global meltdown of 2008 repeat itself are kidding themselves.

Rick Perry’s entry into the race could quickly turn the 2012 GOP fight into a two man race.

What you think you know about the U.S.-China trade relationship may not be entirely true.

Joseph Nye explains why China’s “demand the United States address its structural debt problems and ensure the safety of China’s dollar assets” is really just talk.

Watching the news and reading the op-eds makes it clear: America is doomed.

Like the rest of us, financial analysts across the globe are trying to figure out what the U.S. debt downgrade means.

While it’s hard to argue with S&P’s political analysis, its economic judgment is a head-scratcher.

International options with respect to Syria are limited and likely to have little impact on the governments treatment of civilians.

The world is starting to denounce the crackdown in Syria, but the reaction seems unlikely to go much beyond strongly worded statements.

The cuts to Pentagon spending in the new debt deal are further revealing a split in the GOP over foreign policy and military spending.

Condi Rice’s speechwriter thinks Huntsman can appeal to the Tea Party.

It is always useful to go inside the numbers.

Contrary to myth, China holds only 8 percent of US federal debt.

He’s not in the race (yet), but Rick Perry is already a top-tier 2012 candidate.

To save the world economy and themselves Germany and China must change course.

President Obama has walked out of negotiations on the debt ceiling with an agreement is nowhere in sight.

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

I’m continually shocked when demonstrably bright and accomplished people fall in love with authoritarian states.

Some thoughts on the American experiment at 235 years and counting.

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

The selective application of international law is here to stay.

160 million girls are “missing” owing to selective abortion and cultural preferences for male children.

The first Des Moines Register poll is out.

On paper, Jon Huntsman looks like a great General Election candidate. The problem is it seems impossible for him to win the GOP nomination.

Ppartisan politics no longer stops at the water’s edge. This is a bad sign for the Republic.

Last night, the President basically announced that America’s longest war had entered it’s end game.

For the first time since the end of World War II, the GOP is wrestling with two diametrically opposed visions of foreign affairs.

Despite one headline to the contrary, former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger did not endorse Jon Huntsman as our next president today.

We might be looking at a potential fiscal crisis.

Despite the disdain for him on the the hard right, Mitt Romney is the man to beat right now in the race for the GOP nomination.

Overfishing may mean a near term future in which there are no more fish in the sea.

Is China’s drought caused by human action?

The Navy’s director of warfare integration says China is a “smart and learning enemy.”

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.