Outside the Beltway

Market Watch presents this infographic of “the most and least expensive states to live in the U.S.

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

Was Arafat poisoned? A new report raises some questions, but answers none of them conclusively.

Is U.S. planning against Syria moving beyond just chemical weapons?

Western military action in the Syrian civil war now appears likely.

Al Qaeda may be up to something, so take no chances.

Frustrations with the mercurial leader of Afghanistan may increase the pace of the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan.

Egyptians celebrated last night, but the future is far from clear.

Yesterday saw some of the biggest protests ever to rock Egypt. Where does it go from here?

Has the West inadvertently handed Iran a victory in Syria?

Syria’s violence is slipping across it’s borders.That’s not good news at all.

Shutting down media that the government doesn’t like is unlikely to solve the sectarian problems in Iraq.

Arab news giant Al-Jazeera is buying Al Gore’s failing Current TV network, hoping to get a bigger presence in the US cable market.

The worst elements among the Syrian rebels seem to be the ones getting the arms.

Slowly but surely, we’re giving up on Afghanistan.

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

Some troubling, sad, and downright puzzling stories

While women are more visible at the 2012 Olympics than any past games, there are still cries of “sexism.”