Outside the Beltway

Chuck Hagel will be confirmed, but the campaign against him tells us much about the current state of Republican foreign policy

Conservatives complaining about biased coverage from the liberal media should instead look in the mirror.

My latest for The National Interest, “Ignoring the Hagel Hearing Farce,” has posted.

Killing their leaders doesn’t seem to be impacting the ability of jihadi groups to recruit and motivate more terrorists.

Old Man’s war, a sci-fi novel about the distant future published in 2007, features Newsweek magazine, which went out of business in 2012.

Would a formal guarantee of Israel’s security deter Iran from whatever nuclear weapons development program it has?

Alex Pareene’s annual hack list omits an obvious candidate: Alex Pareene.

Recent comments from Russian officials suggest that the nation may be preparing to cut its longtime ally loose.

They are playing the game without rules in Egypt.

The son of a former Israeli Prime Minister proposes an utterly insane idea.

The conflict between Israel and Hamas appears to be heading in one unfortunate direction.

Tthere’s enough bad punditry going around that there’s no need to invent cases to expose.

Congressman Steve Israel has proposed an amendment to the Constitution to award 29 bonus electoral votes to the popular vote winner.

One of the few areas of disagreement was how big our military should be.

The argument that the United States should start assisting the rebellion in Syria has many flaws.

One of Mitt Romney’s own supporters didn’t like his foreign policy speech very much.

Mitt Romney’s speech at VMI today was billed as a major foreign policy address, but it was incredibly light on substance.

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

Where’s the beef?

Thirty four years later, Egyptians are hinting they want to make changes to the first peace treaty between Israel and an Arab nation.

The Romney campaign’s critique of the President’s foreign policy record is weak, and based on bad history.

For the fourth day, American and other embassies became the focus of mass protests in many Muslim nations.

If the United States and Egypt were Facebook friends, their relationship status would be “It’s Complicated.”

President Obama gave an honest, nuanced answer to a complex question. So, of course, he’s taking it back.

One Professor suggests we sacrifice yet more of our freedom in the wake of the embassy protests in the Middle East.

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.

Not surprisingly, a new study finds that repealing Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell has not caused any harm to the military.

An attack on Iran’s nuclear program would be far more complicated than a one-off attack.