Outside the Beltway

The United States is apparently looking to Libya as a guide for upcoming talks with North Korea. The DPRK most likely sees the fate of that nation and its leader as a warning.

A well-meaning journalist brushes off critiques by experts in the field. He owes it to his readers to keep learning.

Nine years later, at least one member of the Norwegian Nobel Committee is admitting what seemed at the time a rather obvious fact.

Under Nelson Mandela’s leadership, the country made a smooth transition from apartheid. Now it’s going the way of Zimbabwe.

President Trump has announced a new round of sanctions against North Korea, but they are unlikely to work given the unrealistic nature of the Administration’s current policy toward North Korea.

A Federal Judge In Kansas has blocked enforcement of a state law barring anyone who does business with the state from engaging in a boycott of Israel.

More provocative action from North Korea, and another reminder that there are no easy answers to the problems represented by the Kim regime.

A majority of her non-government visitors coincidentally donated to her nonprofit.

A man who survived great horrors to become a tireless witness for truth and advocate for human rights has passed away.

Concerns about the Zika Virus are leading some doctors to call for the 2016 Summer Olympics to be moved or postponed.

A word that has come in recent years to be used to refer chiefly to Muslim fanatics obviously applies to a man who murdered nine people because they’re black.

Nine people died overnight in a shooting at an historic African-American Church in Charleston, South Carolina.

The head of the Spokane NAACP has apparently been lying about her racial background, and that’s led to a whole other argument.

Several of the top representatives of soccer’s governing body have been indicted by a Federal Grand Jury in New York.

Trevor Noah will be the next host of The Daily Show. Who’s Trevor Noah? Exactly.

Senate Republicans have done more harm to the goal of stopping Iran from developing nuclear weapons than they have done good.

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

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

Newly released documents reveal that Henry Kissinger wanted to attack Cuba in the mid-1970s.

Health experts are saying we could basically eliminate AIDS, or at least bring it under control, in fifteen years if we do the right things.

Some old fashioned political arm twisting has up-ended the apple cart in Richmond.

There’s little evidence for the conservative contention that the President has damaged America’s position in the world.

White House Press Secretary Jay Carney’s choices in home decor raise an interesting question.

In retrospect, and in comparison with other recent Presidents, George Herbert Walker Bush’s four years in office were pretty darn good.

The danger of saying stupid things online apparently has not sunk in with some people.

Apparently, the security at Tuesday’s memorial for Nelson Mandela was so lax as to be nearly non-existent.

In 1789, George Washington took office after being elected by only a small portion of the population of the U.S. Does that mean he wasn’t “democratically elected?”

Some on the American right have a very odd view of both Nelson Mandela and the Apartheid regime he fought against.

The most important leader to come out of Africa in the 20th Century, and perhaps in all of history, has died.

We spend more per capita than any other country in the world and yet we are outperformed on a key metric, life expectancy, by a large number of countries

Another conflict between the Obama Administration and a news media that is frustrated about the extent they are being controlled by being refused access.

Military coups used to be far more common than they are today.

Absent DOMA, the Full Faith and Credit Clause would seem to make gay marriage legal across the land.