Outside the Beltway

Are colleges teaching the right lessons about the 9/11 attacks?

Understanding why your enemy hates you seems to be an important thing, but some people would rather believe in caricatures.

What are the contours of “mainstream” religious thought in today’s America?

Ron Paul is again making the argument that American foreign policy has contributed to terrorism. He’s more right than wrong.

Is Chris Christie reconsidering his previous statements about not running for President? More importantly, why are so many Republicans still dissatisfied with the field?

Does Ron Paul’s second place showing at Ames mean the media should take him seriously as a contender? No, it doesn’t.

International options with respect to Syria are limited and likely to have little impact on the governments treatment of civilians.

Marvel has created an alternate universe in which Spiderman is a half-black, half-Latino teenager. Some people are angry.

A European anti-Muslim blogger observes, ‘It is clear that Anders Behring Breivik is one of us.'”

News that Norwegian terrorist Anders Behring Breivik was a fan of anti-Islamist sites, including Robert Spencer’s Jihad Watch and Pamela Geller’s Atlas Shrugs has opened a big can of schadenfreude.

The death toll in Norway’s deadliest day of terrorism is up to 91. The man behind it, 32-year-old Anders Behring Breivik, is a frequent poster of anti-Muslim screeds on Christian fundamentalist websites.

A bomb blast in Oslo’s government center has killed at least two people and a presumably related shooting spree at a nearby children’s camp are being investigated as terrorist related.

The New York Times keeps digging up new facts about yesterday’s shocking reversal in the Dominque Strauss-Kahn case.

Trevor Phillips, chairman of the UK’s Equality and Human Rights Commission, says fundamentalist Christians are a far bigger problem than Muslims. And, no, he’s not anti-religion.

The Netherlands is considering a new animal cruelty law that would effectively ban kosher and halal slaughter practices.

The debate format was the biggest loser last night, but there were a few memorable moments in New Hampshire.

Why isn’t the GOP calling out religious bigotry from one of its candidates?

Turkey has had elections, and the ruling AKP has retained a majority in parliament. The next major issue appears to be constitutional reform.

Former Serbian commander Ratko Mladic has been arrested for alleged war crimes committed in the 1990s.

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.

Once again, an American President thinks he can bring peace to the Middle East.

The ICC may issue a warrant for Gaddafi.

In a move sure to satisfy Deathers as much as a contemporaneous newspaper story satisfied Birthers, al Qaeda has released a statement confirming that Osama bin Laden is dead.

The free world rallied around the United States after the 9/11 attacks–but not all back the killing of the man who ordered it.

The myth that the U.S. armed and trained Osama bin Laden in the early 80’s is rearing its ugly head again.