Outside the Beltway

What’s the bottom line in the Texas jobs discussion?

Rebecca J. Rosen explains why “Ridiculously Long CVS Receipts Will Remain Ridiculously Long.” And Mitch Hedberg ponders why they give you a receipt for a donut.

Is NATO prepared for what happens when they win?

So, apparently, Paul Ryan has expensive tastes in wine.

The Stephen Colbert Super PAC that began as a satire has now been blessed by the real FEC. What exactly this means is not yet clear.

The selective application of international law is here to stay.

As of June 17, Sarah Palin is a registered US trademark, serial number 85-170,226.

C. Boyden Gray, former White House Counsel and EU Ambassador, has signed on as the chair of the Jon Huntsman policy team, Mark Halperin reports.

My latest piece for The Atlantic, “Is the U.S.-European Relationship Really in Decline?” is posted.

Turkey has had elections, and the ruling AKP has retained a majority in parliament. The next major issue appears to be constitutional reform.

Steve Clemons is taking his talents to The Atlantic

It’s hard to get paid for work others will do for nothing.

While President Obama has had some amusing gaffes on his trip to London, including getting the year wrong in the guest book and an awkward toast to the Queen, his speech to Parliament today hit all the right notes.

Now here’s a story you don’t see every day: The head coach of a major college basketball team leaving for a service academy.

Republicans are playing politics with the National Debt. Please don’t tell me you’re shocked.

Elias Isquith proclaims my Atlantic essay “How Perpetual War Became U.S. Ideology” to be “a total disaster.”

Why the United States has found itself in a seemingly endless series of wars over the past two decades.

The Atlantic’s Jim Fallows dubs this the Greatest Front Page Ever: A day filled with romance, pageantry, and playfulness is sealsed with a kiss: Osama bin Laden is dead”

Changing our relationship status to Complicated.

Keith Urbahn, chief of staff of former defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld, broke the news.

Why, yes, my iPhone has indeed been tracking me since last summer.

With all the birther talk these days, it’s probably time to question whether we even need the “natural born citizen” rule anymore.

Ten days after sending American forces into kinetic military action in Libya, President Obama addressed the nation to explain “what we’ve done, what we plan to do, and why this matters to us.”

A handful of young male bloggers have launched themselves to the head of the line, leapfrogging those who’ve spent years playing the game by the old rules.juice

Archaeologists may have found the lost city of Atlantis. And, no, not the one in the Bahamas.

While there are doubtless flaws with the journalistic values and culture of the New Media, we too often contrast today with a Golden Age of Media that never existed.

Intervening to “help” the Libyan revolt is very tempting, but it’s a temptation we ought to resist.

While the prestige outlets of the halcyon days of the last millennium still hold some cachet for those of us old enough to remember that era, they mean next to nothing on the Web.

Is social media killing electronic mail?

Prominent commentators on the Left and Right are amused by an outrageous assault on CBS reporter Lara Logan.

A new Wikileaks revelation indicates that the U.S. may have paid a heavy price to get a deal on New START.

Despite anecdotal evidence debunking global warming, 2010 was another record year for warm temperatures.

The American military personnel system works against keeping the best and brightest officers in the service.

The Atlantic made a $1.8 million profit, mostly from Andrew Sullivan’s blog.

The Atlantic’s Dave Thier laments that, “The Beatles on iTunes Means Your Kids May Never Hear ‘Her Majesty’

It appears that full body scanners, operated by leering yahoos under the cover of government authority, may finally be rousing the sheep who have meekly submitted to the absurd delays and indignities that have been piled on since 9/11 and sundry botched attempts.

Harvard’s Jack Hamilton extols “Robert Plant’s Second Act” for the Atlantic. In so doing, he gives us an interesting look at the more important First Act.

World Politics Review has published a special issue on “NATO’s Identity Crisis” ahead of next month’s Lisbon summit and the unveiling of a new Strategic Concept. I contributed the lead essay, “NATO in an Age of Austerity.”