Outside the Beltway

Michele Bachmann and several other Members of Congress are engaging in the despicable tactics of Joe McCarthy.

The Romney campaign has apparently decided to be more aggressive in its attacks on the President, which poses serious risks for the campaign.

Would faith survive the discovery that the central premise of the Bible is a lie?

However, he and his party have hardly taken over.

The candidate of the Muslim Brotherhood is the next President of Egypt, but the political future of Egypt itself remains quite murky.

The slow motion election continues at least one more day.

Jeffrey Goldberg asks, “What if Mitt Romney were Jewish?”

Let’s leave Egypt to the Egyptians.

Sequencing matters.

The heady days of revolution in Egypt have been replaced with the cold light of political reality.

A new ruling from Egypt’s highest court has set in motion a chain of events that could end very badly.

The crack investigative team at BuzzFeed is living up to its name with a story headlined “Did President Obama Just Make A Blowjob Joke?”

Republicans apparently think that re-running the 2008 campaign, just more efficiently or more ruthlessly, will work this time. Here’s why it won’t.

There is a disturbing trend in Western nations toward enforcement of laws against “insulting” religions.

The factors influencing Russian policy in Syria are many, and some of them are quite ancient.

Will more knowledge bring an end to the public debate over evolutionary theory? Don’t count on it.

Mitt Romney continues to keep Donald Trump close. It makes no sense, but it isn’t likely to matter in the end.

The phrase “American Taliban” is usually off the mark. However, sometimes it is closer to the mark than we might like.

Newt Gingrich is still getting Secret Service protection at an estimated cost to taxpayers of $44,000 a day.

The Atlantic’s Max Fisher reflects on “What America Can Learn From Norway’s Anders Breivik Trial.”

Despite their rhetoric, there would be few differences between a Romney Administration and an Obama Administration when it comes to foreign policy.

Facts are stubborn things.

A profile of the chief of the CIA’s Counterterrorism Center.

Yesterday, the campaign silly season got particularly silly.

Some Republicans seem intent on repeating the mistakes of 2008.

Peter Berkowitz has presented a flawed legal argument for attacking Iran.

There is no Republican savior out there.

The latest round of protests in Afghanistan prove yet again that it’s time for us to leave.

In order to succeed on the right today, you have to do more than just say the President is wrong. You have to say that he’s evil.

A pattern that never ends: Perceived insults lead to mayhem and murder.