Outside the Beltway

Nearly six months later, it’s hard to find any good in the July military coup in Egypt.

The U.S. sends a mostly weak signal to the Egyptian military.

In both Egypt and Syria, it’s damned if we do and damned if we don’t.

Walter Russell Mead explains why a well intentioned, carefully crafted and consistently pursued grand strategy failed.

Does interest in Egypt make the same sense it did 30 years ago?

Hundreds are dead as Egypt’s military government crack down on supporters of the democratically elected government they ousted.

The US backed Egyptian government is massacring supporters of the ousted democratically elected government.

Certain aspects of Egyptian civic life have improved rapidly in the wake of the military coup, raising at least some questions about the events leading up to it.

There is either a military government or an Islamist one in Egypt’s future.