Outside the Beltway

Does the Romney campaign know the USSR doesn’t exist anymore? Of course they do, but the language they use still means something.

We’re literally choosing locking up drug offenders over investing in our children.

To Republicans, even thinking about engaging in diplomacy is enough to accuse the President of appeasement.

“The debt crisis is burrowing ever deeper, like a worm, and is now reaching Germany.”

We’re hearing the howls of a wounded bear.

Last night’s debate was about more than Rick Perry’s gaffe.

A legendary American soldier, General John Shalikashvili, has died.

WSJ has a blistering editorial seeking to put the NewsCorp hacking scandal in perspective.

The uprisings in the Arab world have led some to suggest that the Middle East isn’t “ready” to be free. They’re wrong.

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán was greeted with protests from some EU parliamentarians when he addressed them as its rotating president of the European Council.

The lawyer who argued The Pentagon Papers case points out how Julian Assange is not Daniel Ellsberg, and how prosecuting him could have disastrous results for press freedom in the United States.

A new round of Wikileaks documents is out, and it opens the door on diplomatic correspondence previously hidden from the public.

Daniel Larison’s “The Case Against NATO” makes compelling reading. In my New Atlanticist post “The Case Against the Case Against NATO,” I explain why it’s wrong.

Would non-violence really have failed against the Nazis? History suggests maybe not….

Mohandas Ghandi pioneered the idea of non-violent resistance, but there are times and places where non-violence is little more than a ticket to a death camp.

What’s so wrong with saying that America will survive even if al Qaeda manages to hit us again ?

Holland became the first NATO member to pull out of Afghanistan. How long before the rest follow?