Outside the Beltway

In another sign that things may not be going so well between Washington and Jerusalem, President Obama will not be meeting with Prime Minister Netanyahu when he’s in the United States.

Jimmy Carter’s ex-presidency has lasted the equivalent of 26 Iranian hostage crises.

President Obama didn’t blow the doors off the Time Warner Cable Arena last night, but he didn’t need to.

A new IAEA report may make an Israeli strike on Iran in the near future more likely than it has ever been.

The presumptive Republican nominee has sent a strong and welcome signal about his governing philosophy.

The President’s Cabinet is less a Team Of Rivals and more a Team Of Managers.

Is there a Romney Doctrine?

There’s a big hole in the latest sanctions against Iran.

To Republicans, even thinking about engaging in diplomacy is enough to accuse the President of appeasement.

Newt Gingrich’s foreign policy vision leaves much to be desired.

Not surprisingly, the Supercommittee is a Super Failure.

The Secretary of Defense has some words of warning for those advocating military action against Iran.

The CIA’s drone war in Pakistan has gotten so out of hand that the Pentagon and State Department are reigning it in.

What’s the logic behind Iran’s alleged plot to commit terrorist attacks inside the United States?

The key to my understanding of Mitt Romney’s foreign policy rollout is the assumption “this is fundamentally a campaign document rather than a governing platform.”

CNN may deny Jon Huntsman a spot in its October 18 debate.

Political journalists are asking clumsy, ignorant, and intolerant questions. Film at 11.

The Supreme Court is being asked to decided if Congress can overrule a foreign policy position the U.S. has held since 1948.

Tim Pawlenty’s foreign policy speech shows him siding with the hawks, and joining in the neocon distortion of Reagan’s legacy.

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

The selection process for the Joint Chiefs has been most odd.

Donald Trump figures that, because he’s rich, he’s qualified to be president.

Warren Christopher, Bill Clinton’s first Secretary of State, has died at 85.

Did President Obama pull off a diplomatic masterstroke? Or is he muddling through?

John Kerry’s Washington Post op-ed supports U. S. leadership in establishing a no-fly zone in Libya.

Hosni Mubarak may hang on to some semblance of power longer than many expected in the middle of last weeks chaos, mostly because there are few other alternatives right now.

Sarah Palin said something about the crisis in Egypt, but it’s not at all clear what she meant.

The Obama administration’s slow and cautious response to Egypt’s protest was frustrating. And correct.

State and AID budgets are a rounding error in the Defense budget.

Diplomacy means having to be nice.

The lawyer who argued The Pentagon Papers case points out how Julian Assange is not Daniel Ellsberg, and how prosecuting him could have disastrous results for press freedom in the United States.

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

Sarah Palin waded into the foreign policy pool today with a piece about Iran, and it was about as empty as most of the other ideas on Iran that we’ve heard over the last six years or so from everyone else.

One of the most active American diplomats of the past twenty-five years has passed away.

Inspired by the reaction to the Julian Assange case, a feminist writer proposes dangerous changes to American rape laws.

Are American diplomats lying to reporters because they figure our citizens can’t handle the truth?

The two English language newspapers who have been Julian Assange’s accomplices in disseminating stolen secrets defend themselves.

A new round of Wikileaks documents is out, and it opens the door on diplomatic correspondence previously hidden from the public.

Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo has won the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize. He probably doesn’t know it, though, because he’s currently sitting in a Chinese prison.