Outside the Beltway

While the world watches Ukraine, Central Asia could also be an area where Russia may seek to expand its territory.

More bad poll numbers for the President.

Will ISIS be able to consolidate and hold the territory it’s taken in Iraq?

Twenty-five years after his seminal “End of History” article, Francis Fukuyama reflects on its legacy.

For the fourth time in 30 years, an American President spoke at Normandy to honor a day of sacrifice and triumph.

After two and a half decades, the images of June 4, 1989 resonate with many, unless you happen to live in China.

A supposed conservative calls for massive increases in taxes on alcohol.

Different name, same result in Egypt.

They’ve got a new President, but there’s still much to do.

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

Is “Finlandization” a viable option for Ukraine?

The unequal distribution of social capital may be more important than the unequal distribution of income.

The last known case of smallpox happened in 1977. Is it time to destroy the virus?

Vladimir Putin wants to put the Internet genie back in the bottle.

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

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.

Middle East peace talks are apparently in such bad shape that the U.S. is thinking of releasing Jonathan Pollard as an incentive to Israel.

The future may hold a lot of vehement arguing over insignificant bits of territory.

Getting nuclear weapons out of Ukraine in 1994 was a good idea, not a mistake.

As everyone anticipated, the Crimean referendum came out in favor of secession from Ukraine and union with Russia. What happens next is another question entirely.

Why do dictators feel the need to pretend that they have the consent of the people over whom they rule?

Barack Obama is no Jimmy Carter.

The West owes Ukraine nothing.

Russian invasion or legitimate secessionist movement? And does it matter?

Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych has been forced out of Kyiv—and possibly out of power entirely.

The bizarre conservative love affair with Vladimir Putin continues.

The Cold War may be over, but the negative opinions in the U.S. regarding Russia and its leadership seem to have continued.

Some perspective from Sochi.

After eight years in a coma, Ariel Sharon has passed away.

Vladimir Putin seems to be getting a lot of love from cultural conservatives in the United States.

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

There are many choices in dealing with Iran’s nuclear program there are many choices, but some are better than others.

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

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

Small steps from both sides in the Iranian nuclear negotiations, but too early to say that we’ve reached a solution.

Conservatives have their own Kennedy myth to compete with the myth of Camelot.

Don’t blame Dallas, or 60s era Texas conservatism, for what happened in Dallas 50 years ago,

Tom Clancy, author of dozens of bestselling military thriller novels, has died aged 66.

Opposing interventionism and unnecessary and unwise military engagements is not isolationism.