Outside the Beltway

The French were indignant about reports of the NSA’s surveillance programs. Now we know they have own of their own.

The blowback from yesterday’s revelations about U.S. surveillance on European allies continues.

The latest NSA leaks are likely to prove to be diplomatically embarrassing.

The government is changing the way it calculates Gross Domestic Product.

Not surprisingly, television and reality don’t really coincide.

The combination of falling oil prices and increased exports has the US trade deficit at its lowest point since December 2010.

Eight of Cameroon’s 37 Olympians are “missing.”

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

The problem with Europe may not be the Euro, but the fact that there really aren’t any Europeans.

From Europe, a case of regulation gone nuts.

We’re running out of excuses.

My latest for The Atlantic: “For Europe, Some Fear a Conflict Between Union and Democracy”

The Greek referendum could be a disaster for the global economy. And might be the right thing to do.

It’s time to start being concerned about Europe.

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.”

NATO is still seen as essential by 62 percent of both EU and U.S. respondents, demonstrating that the transatlantic military bond is still, despite a rough decade, firmly entrenched in American and European views of the world.

A new poll shows that Americans are starting to look East.

My first piece for CNN has been posted at Fareed Zakaria’s Global Public Square.

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

Remember Egypt?

Business Week’s cover story examines the coming implosion of the US Postal Service as we know it.

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.

NPR is a collection of local stations, not a single station. And it’s run that way.

Calls are coming from both sides of the aisle for the U.S. to do “something” about the situation in Libya. It would be better if we didn’t get involved.

The ongoing saga of piracy off the coast of Somali is about to get Americans’ attention again, as a yacht containing four U.S. citizens has been hijacked.

Glenn Beck seems to have more in common with End Time preachers than he does with a serious political analyst.

A somewhat surprising court decision from the European Union gives a glimpse of what the situation in the United States would be if Roe v. Wade were overturned.

A capsule look at the world situation as 2010 draws to a close.

The long awaited new strategic concept, launching what has been termed “NATO 3.0,” has been published under the banner “Active Engagement, Modern Defense.”