Outside the Beltway

Trump goes full on climate denier on a big stage.

Overfishing may mean a near term future in which there are no more fish in the sea.

President Obama doubled down in his speech before this year’s AIPAC conference. Why he did so only he understands.

It has now been 60 days since American involvement in Libya commenced. Congress has failed to act, and that’s their fault.

Bill Clinton thinks some sort of government agency should do somethingorother about rumors on the Internet.

An aide’s compliment about the president “leading from behind” has generated controversy.

Remember when President Obama said there would be “no boots on the ground” in Libya? You didn’t actually believe that, did you?

The re-emergence of Obama foreign policy advisor Samantha Power to prominence has brought critics to the forefront

President Obama says he acted in Libya to avert an imminent genocide, but there’s no evidence that any such thing was about to occur.

The only people responsible for the murders in Afghanistan are the people who committed them, but the demagogues like Terry Jones deserve condemnation as well.

Politicians in office have a nasty habit of behaving completely differently than they promise on the campaign trail.

The “Obama Doctrine,” such as it is, seems to boil down to moral self-certainty combined with a glaring ignorance of reality. That’s a dangerous combination.

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.”

Senator Joe Lieberman said today that we should intervene in Syria using the same rationale we did for Libya. Because, you know, what’s the big deal about a fourth war?

The public, and Congress, are skeptical of the mission in Libya, and the reason for that is because the President has failed to tell us exactly why we’re there and what we’ll be doing.

When America’s leaders make the decision to engage in military action abroad, has the time for debate ended, or is it more important than ever that those with doubts about the policy speak out?

Is Libya a war? Hell yes, Libya is a war.

U.S. officials are making clear that the current mission in Libya may not lead to the end of Muammar Gaddafi’s rule. If that’s the case, then why are we there in the first place?

The Obama Administration is asking the U.N. Security Council to authorize direct military intervention in Libya. The question is, why now?

NPR is a collection of local stations, not a single station. And it’s run that way.

The situation in Libya continues to be grim as Gaddafi lashes out while power slips through his fingers.

Calls are growing for outside intervention in Libya but it’s unclear what can, or should, be done.

It turns out the Iraq War was indeed based, in part at least, on a lie.

Revolutions don’t happen over a weekend.

Mohammed el-Baradai had harsh words for Hosni Mubarak and the United States when he spoke today from house arrest.

The reaction to President Obama’s recent recess appointments provide us with yet another example of bipartisan hypocrisy.

Is calling Côte d’Ivoire “Ivory Coast” linguistic colonialism? Where do we draw the line when English names for countries go out of vogue?

President Obama is supporting the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. Is this the end of America?