Outside the Beltway

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

More problems for the planned 2022 World Cup in Qatar.

Today’s foreign-policy disputes rarely consider the way America’s response to one crisis might affect another.

China sends a message to Kim Jong Un.

Cowardice. There really isn’t any other word for it.

Predicting the end of the DPRK is a fool’s errand.

Once again, a poll shows that large numbers of Americans, and most Americans, reject Evolution via Natural Selection as the explanation for humanity’s origin. How do we explain that?

The North Koreans are back to their old tricks.

Well, that didn’t take long.

The U.S. position on China’s new air defense zone is exceedingly clear. The question is where it goes from here.

Hey Uncle, you’re fired.

Even as it defies China’s illegal territorial claims with military flights, the Obama administration is urging US airlines to comply.

China sends a message, and the U.S. responds. What happens next is anyone’s guess.

For some same-sex couples with a military spouse, living together on base is proving difficult to implement quickly.

Cathy’s husband and Jess’ father, Jer, was killed in the shooting spree at the Navy Yard.

:Like his predecessors, President Obama’s speech last night exaggerated the threat that Syria poses in order to sell his plan to American voters.

A husband and wife do unrelated, and perfectly innocent, Google searches, and get a visit from the FBI.

In response to North Korean saber rattling and the rise of China, Japan is reassessing it’s military posture

To maintain growth China needs to consider its priorities.

There are many fallacies contained within the GOP’s insistence that immigration reform must begin and end with “border security.”

North Korea’s nuclear weapons aren’t going anywhere.

The blowback from yesterday’s revelations about U.S. surveillance on European allies continues.

The latest NSA leaks are likely to prove to be diplomatically embarrassing.

After many attempts to manufacture grand scandals out of very little, Republicans may finally have a legitimate outrage on their hands.

The United States is currently negotiating for a U.S. troop presence in Afghanistan after 2014, but they’re not sharing their plans with the American people.

President Obama may regret drawing a line in the sand over Syrian chemical weapons.

In a chaotic week, one source of chaos was remarkably quiet.

Our current approach isn’t working.

So what, exactly, is going on in North Korea? And how should we respond to Kim’s bluster?

Things are heating up on the Korean Peninsula again.