Outside the Beltway

Despite an extradition request from the United States, Edward Snowden left Hong Kong overnight on a flight to Moscow and parts unknown.

Does it matter if political leaders like each other on some personal level? Sometimes it does.

Has the West inadvertently handed Iran a victory in Syria?

Has the Arab Spring come to Turkey?

Signs and portents in the Middle East.

The sequestration cuts are two months old, and it seems pretty clear that the claims of doom we heard before they went into effect were heavily exaggerated.

My latest for The National Interest, “Never Again, Except This Time,” has posted.

It’s 365 days and counting since the last reported case of piracy in the Horn of Africa.

Is the White House distancing itself from the President’s “red line” remarks about Syria?

The world oil markets aren’t too far away from being hit by the shock of massively increased demand from China. Somehow, we’ll have to adapt.

Opponents of immigration reform are deceptively attempting to use the bombing attack in Boston to derail immigration reform.

The CIA unsuccessfully lobbied to put Tamerlan Tsarnaev, the eldest of the Boston Marathon bombers, on the counterterrorism watch list in 2011.

Another Senator wants to delay immigration reform because of the attacks in Boston.

A sensational story, little solid information, and instant analysis are a bad combination

A bolt out of the blue.

North Korea has conducted its third test of a nuclear weapon.

The notion that guns prevent tyranny is based on fantasy and movies, not reality.

The Russian adoption ban isn’t sitting well with many Russians.

Last January 1, some of us made a series of predictions. Here’s how we did.