Outside the Beltway

Some really bad advice for the GOP.

Jerry Brown’s second go-round as governor has been very, very good to the Golden State.

Edward Snowden has likely violated many laws, but, absent additional facts, treason is not one of them.

Does it matter if political leaders like each other on some personal level? Sometimes it does.

The United States is as politically polarized as it was in 1865.

The politics of gun control is not nearly as easy as its supporters believe it to be.

My latest for The National Interest, “Hagel’s Three Questions,” ponders our national security decisionmaking.

Examining SECDEF’s call for radical overhaul of our defense structure against the fate of similar calls past.

The Iraq War did significant damage to the legacy of the Republican Party.

Providing a little context for Pope Francis’ background+Erick Erickson needs to learn a little history.

Walter Russell Mead presents his sitrep of the War on Terror.

Andrew Bacevich bemoans the social impact of the all-volunteer force.

Minting a Platinum Coin would be a really bad idea.

Without question, Barack Obama won the foreign policy debate in the 2012 campaign.

First in a series of posts looking at the substance of the final presidential debate, ostensibly about foreign policy.