Outside the Beltway

The statute of limitations has expired. But he should never have been asked the question to begin with.

By threatening to withdraw from the nuclear deal with Iran, Donald Trump is making it far less likely that any upcoming talks with North Korea will succeed.

Absent changes in policy, the nation’s most hallowed military cemetery will run out of space in two decades.

Service members deployed to Algeria, Burundi, Cameroon, Chad, Congo, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Libya, Mali, Niger, Somalia, Sudan, South Sudan, Tunisia, and Uganda qualify.

There won’t be any tanks, but it looks like President Trump will get his military parade.

Kids are more likely to be killed driving to school than shot while there. That doesn’t mean we shouldn’t try and prevent them.

A disturbing report in the Miami Herald highlights the farce into which this trial has descended.

In Defense One, Butch Bracknell and I explain “Why ‘Different Spanks for Different Ranks’ Are Often Justified.”

Four social media stars have been fired from their television show after the revelation that Pamela Gellar is their mother.

South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham says war against North Korea would be worth it. Ignoring the fact that it would result in casualties unlike anything America has seen since the Vietnam War.

John Bolton is leading a cry for preemptive war against North Korea.

Will the NRA lobby to have these on America’s streets?

We form stereotypes about generational cohorts when they’re very young and then freeze them.

President Trump has announced that he’ll be imposing significant tariffs on steel and aluminum imports. This is an unwise decision.

With the Winter Olympics over, the next step on the Korean Peninsula is utterly unclear.

President Trump continues to deny the reality of Russian interference in the 2016 campaign, and he’s failing to act to make sure it doesn’t happen again.

Despite the activism we’ve seen in the wake of the school shooting in Florida, it’s unlikely that we’ll see significant Congressional action on guns.

This is very much why the security clearance process requires so much financial disclosure.

The White House chief of staff has downgraded the President’s son-in-law’s access to classified information. We’ll see how long that lasts.

The Obama Administration called and wants its foreign policy back.

The President’s fecklessness here is incredible. Either take these people out of sensitive posts or take the responsibility for granting them waivers. 

The octogenarian failed to get her party’s endorsement for a sixth term.

What is CPAC telling us about the contemporary conservative movement?

Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee have released a memo that completely eviscerates the memo prepared by Committee Chairman Devin Nunes.

Mexico’s President canceled a visit to the United States for the second time since Donald Trump became President due to a continued disagreement over who will pay for Trump’s border wall.

President Trump continues to make irresponsible and dangerous threats in connection with American policy toward North Korea.

The Defense Department will reportedly recommend to President Trump that transgender members of the service currently serving in the military be allowed to continue serving.

An emerging technology will take “fake news” to a whole new level.

President Trump has announced a new round of sanctions against North Korea, but they are unlikely to work given the unrealistic nature of the Administration’s current policy toward North Korea.

The Mueller investigation moves forward.

Continuing a long-standard tradition, the Trump Administration claims it doesn’t need to get legal authorization to keep American troops in Syria.

National Security Adviser H.L. McMaster is the latest person rumored to be considering moving on from the Trump Administration.

The U.S. Army is once again embroiled in an internecine fight over hats.

While the glass ceiling in high-level posts was shattered decades ago, men still dominate the field.

Elliot Cohen laments the lack of steel in the spine of the statesmen, diplomats, soldiers, and thinkers of the current generation.

Donald Trump’s dereliction of duty in response to clear evidence of Russian interference in the 2016 election is a staggering and flagrant dereliction of the duties he agreed to take on when he took the Oath Of Office more than a year ago.

President Trump’s tweets, other public statements, and actions are causing world leaders to doubt the reliability of the United States on the world stage.

Mueller tightens the screws even further.

Pork barrel politics is complicating Germany’s replacement of its 1970s fighter jet.

Donald Trump is now claiming that he had never denied that Russia interfered in the 2016 election. This is, of course, not true.

Al Hoffman Jr., a Florida-based real estate developer who was a leading fund-raiser for George W. Bush’s campaigns, said he would seek to marshal support among other Republican political donors for a renewed assault weapons ban.

Even with yesterday’s indictments, President Trump still won’t acknowledge reality even though it’s staring him in the face.

Phil Carter makes an interesting argument but he’s ultimately mistaken.

A significant and important development in the Russia investigation that shows that President Trump’s claim that the stories of Russian interference in the 2016 election were “Fake News” is completely untrue.

More security clearance problems for the White House.

Another day, another Court ruling against the Trump Administration.

President Trump’s military parade would come with a not insignificant cost.

Why does the U.S. continue to pursue the seemingly impossible goal of denuclearization with regard to North Korea? In part, it’s because we’re still locked into thirty-year-old rhetoric.

Intelligence officials are warning that the Russians are set to seek to influence the 2018 elections just as they did in 2016. Despite this, the Trump Administration refuses to acknowledge this publicly while the President seeks to undermine the investigation into past Russian interference.