Outside the Beltway

It’s simple: We just have to define the problem and then solve it.

Refusing to raise the debt ceiling does nothing at all to control spending.

Why do we persist in going to war?

Is 435 the right number?

Once again, a poll shows that large numbers of Americans, and most Americans, reject Evolution via Natural Selection as the explanation for humanity’s origin. How do we explain that?

The North Koreans are back to their old tricks.

Well, that didn’t take long.

Thoughts on the precursors to the events of 72 years ago today.

The U.S. position on China’s new air defense zone is exceedingly clear. The question is where it goes from here.

Hey Uncle, you’re fired.

Even as it defies China’s illegal territorial claims with military flights, the Obama administration is urging US airlines to comply.

China sends a message, and the U.S. responds. What happens next is anyone’s guess.

We spend more per capita than any other country in the world and yet we are outperformed on a key metric, life expectancy, by a large number of countries

For some same-sex couples with a military spouse, living together on base is proving difficult to implement quickly.

The good folks at The Guardian wonder, “Why have young people in Japan stopped having sex?”

The destruction of Syria’s stockpiles will be slow and laborious even if all goes according to script.

:Like his predecessors, President Obama’s speech last night exaggerated the threat that Syria poses in order to sell his plan to American voters.

My latest for The National Interest has posted.

Opposing interventionism and unnecessary and unwise military engagements is not isolationism.

“No More Baby Steps,” my first piece for Defense News, has posted.

Everyone knew the Fukushima disaster was bad. We likely underestimated how bad.

Japan’s National Debt has reached a level that’s somewhat incomprehensible.

In response to North Korean saber rattling and the rise of China, Japan is reassessing it’s military posture

To maintain growth China needs to consider its priorities.

President Obama has appointed a lot of donor’s and supporters to plumb Ambassadorial slots. That’s not at all unusual.

There are many fallacies contained within the GOP’s insistence that immigration reform must begin and end with “border security.”

North Korea’s nuclear weapons aren’t going anywhere.

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.

Jerry Brown’s second go-round as governor has been very, very good to the Golden State.

Thanks to archaic state laws, you can look at cars in a Tesla showroom, but in my states you can’t but anything there.

Shouldn’t medical advances available in Germany be available in the United States and vice-versa?

The United States is currently negotiating for a U.S. troop presence in Afghanistan after 2014, but they’re not sharing their plans with the American people.