Outside the Beltway

Calling anyone a front-runner in a race where we’re still two years away from anyone casting votes is silly. Nonetheless, Rand Paul is an interesting guy to watch for those wondering if the GOP has actually changed.

Crimea is more divided than Russia would have the world believe. Plus: the Crimean government has no legitimacy at the moment.

Barack Obama is no Jimmy Carter.

Is there anything that could stop the Clinton juggernaut?

My first piece for The Hill, “Crimea is not Armageddon,” posted this morning.

The Budapest Memorandums pertain solely to nuclear attacks.

The West owes Ukraine nothing.

Casting a bit of cartographic light on the crisis in Ukraine.

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

Russian militarism in Ukraine has undone any public relations benefits of the Sochi Olympics.

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

Victoria Nuland, Asistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs, pithily expressed her frustrations about the European Union.

Wendy Lower documents the half-million women who helped Hitler carry out the Holocaust.

Let’s take a trip back in time to see what some conservatives thought 2012 would look like if Barack Obama were elected President.

Not surprisingly, the last man to lead the Soviet Union believes we’d be better off if it still existed.

Time Magazine has chosen “The Protester” as its Person Of The Year. Let the outrage ensue.

If Mubarak is driven from power, will that make Egypt a case of “revolution”?

More on the attack at Moscow’s Domodedovo airport.

Daniel Larison’s “The Case Against NATO” makes compelling reading. In my New Atlanticist post “The Case Against the Case Against NATO,” I explain why it’s wrong.

What’s so wrong with saying that America will survive even if al Qaeda manages to hit us again ?

German government payments compensating hunters for lost income due to radioactive boar have quadrupled since 2007.