Outside the Beltway

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.

This year’s Zogby poll of public opinion in the Middle East exhibits a marked shift on the Obama Administration, Iran.

NASA Administrator Charles Bolden said in an interview that he considered raising Muslim self-esteem about their contributions to science one of the goals of his agency.