Outside the Beltway

Rand Paul has changed position on several foreign policy issues, but he doesn’t seem to want to talk about it.

Democrats like New York Senator Chuck Schumer could end up being the ones that scuttle the Iranian nuclear deal.

Scott Walker’s response to the Iranian nuclear deal is perhaps the most irresponsible so far.

Rand Paul now says he signed the Cotton Letter to strengthen the Administration’s bargaining position.

President Obama thinks that it would be a good idea if everyone were forced to vote. He’s wrong, and his idea is most likely unconstitutional.

Ben Carson doesn’t seem to know much about foreign policy or history. And he doesn’t belong on anyone’s list of serious Presidential candidates.

A cease fire deal in Ukraine, but a long term settlement will require compromises from both Moscow and Kiev.

Most in the international relations community are not amused by the president’s National Security Strategy.

Pressure is building on the Administration to send military aid to Ukraine, but it would be a very bad idea.

Has the legislative branch abdicated its responsibility in US foreign policy?

Indiana Governor Mike Pence is supposed to be a champion of limited government. So why is he starting up a state run news agency?

Some are criticizing the President for not going to Paris for yesterday’s rally.

There’s not a whole lot the United States can do to respond effectively and proportionally to North Korea’s hacking attack against Sony.

Talk about your second- and third-order effects.

For a year that started out with regaining long-lost territory in Ukraine, 2014 is not ending so well for Vladimir Putin’s Russia.

Sony is warning the press not to publish material leaked by hackers, but it doesn’t have much of a legal leg to stand on.

Michael Brown’s stepfather made incendiary comments in the wake of the Grand Jury announcement, but they do not amount to a crime.

Russia’s own government is projecting that its economy will slip into recession next year. How that will impact Putin’s current belligerence remains to be seen.

A new poll finds that a majority of Germans support sanctions against Russia, even if those sanctions end up hurting the German economy.

The CIA has always separated its core spying and analysis functions; that may soon change.

Vladimir Putin’s latest actions seems to have exhausted Germany’s patience.

Vladimir Putin’s reception at the G-20 Summit in Australia has been less than warm thanks to recent events in Ukraine.

The Ukraine crisis, which never really went away, is back,

Quietly, oil prices have been falling for months now. That’s potentially a very big deal.

A disappointing setback.

Kentucky Senator Rand Paul continues to challenge Republican orthodoxy on foreign policy, and that’s a good thing.

Yesterday’s apparent terrorist shooting in Ottawa reveals again a phenomenon that seems difficult if not impossible to stop in advance.

Germany’s new defense minister has promised a more robust role but lacks the ability to back her words with action.

It has nothing to do with winning, but it does have a lot to do with the foreign policy debate inside the Republican Party.

One of these ballots is legit. The others, not so much.

It’s all over but the voting in Scotland.

After keeping his distance from them for three years, President Obama is placing much misplaced hope in the “moderate” Syrian rebels,

A major escalation.

The rebels in eastern Ukraine continue to suffer setbacks, and Russia is massing troops on the border again.

Does Hillary Clinton remember that she was Secretary of State for four years?

End game? Or the potential spark of a wider war?