Outside the Beltway

This will get people killed. Quite likely, including American citizens.

A speech traditionally used to unite was instead a continuation of a divisive campaign.

The mystery of what happened aboard Malaysian Airlines Flight 370 may remain at the bottom of the Indian Ocean forever.

A potentially controversial commutation from President Obama today.

While you were celebrating Christmas, Israel was blasting the Obama Administration and cozying up to the incoming Trump Administration.

Survivors and family members of the Pulse Nightclub attack have filed what amounts to a frivolous lawsuit.

Ambassador Karlov is mostly likely not a modern day Archduke Franz Ferdinand.

Another attack in what has been a bloody 2016 for Europe.

Delegating the morning briefing to advisors isn’t actually that unusual.

The situation in the Middle East just potentially became much more complicated.

A controversial member of George W. Bush’s foreign policy team is up for a post in Donald Trump’s State Department.

The head of the biggest energy company in the world is reportedly Donald Trump’s pick for Secretary of State.

Good thing the world is a static, simple place…

New information raises serious questions about the integrity of the 2016 elections, and about Donald Trump and his supporters.

Three of the top four national security positions in Donald Trump’s Cabinet will be filled by retired Generals. This isn’t necessarily a good thing.

I’m in the New York Times’ “Room for Debate” with Senator Kirsten Gillibrand and Duke’s Peter Feaver.

Another name may be on the short list for Secretary of State.

For Donald Trump, it appears that ignorance is bliss.

As America prepares for a Presidential transition, an old conflict with a history of turning dangerous rears its head.

Mitt Romney and Donald Trump became bitter rivals for the soul of the GOP in 2016, but Romney appears to be at the top of Trump’s list for the nation’s top diplomat.

While it seems a strange choice at first blush, it’s a good one.

Kentucky Senator Rand Paul is speaking out against several of President-Elect Trump’s proposed Cabinet nominees.

Team of Rivals?

A controversial retired General has been tapped to be President-Elect Trump’s top White House foreign policy voice.

On Tuesday night the Establishment won and won yuge. (From new OTB contributor, Michael Bailey)

In a call to supporters, Hillary Clinton blames her loss on F.B.I. Director James Comey

Even if you’re not sure who you should vote for, it’s obvious who you shouldn’t vote for.

A senior congressional staffer is taking a new job that happens to coincide with her boss’ committee assignment.

According to reports, Vice-President Biden is on a Clinton campaign short list for Secretary of State.

Clinton is getting no special treatment by the standards of her high-powered peers.

More evidence that Trump would be a terrible president.

A late night attack at a shopping mall, and a suspect still at large have raised tensions in Seattle.

Just about two days after setting off bombs in New Jersey and New York City, a suspect is in custody.

An explosion that ended up injuring 29 people interrupted an otherwise quiet Saturday evening in the Chelsea neighborhood in New York City.

Donald Trump’s campaign is apparently finally acknowledging reality, although its claim that birtherism originated with the Clinton campaign in 2008 does not comport with the facts.

The sense of national ‘unity’ that existed in the wake of the September 11th attacks didn’t last for very long.

The United States and Russia have reached an agreement to end fighting in Syria, but it seems unlikely to succeed given that it doesn’t involve the parties actually doing the fighting.

Another set of revelations shows that the Clinton campaign has yet to put the email story behind it.

As expected, John McCain easily defeated his primary opponent yesterday.

Things aren’t pretty inside the House of Trump these days.

President Obama’s ISIS policy has been far from perfect, but to call him a “Founder” of ISIS is to ignore both history and reality.

My latest for War on the Rocks.

Looking at the Electoral College, it’s already apparent that Donald Trump’s campaign faces a daunting, perhaps impossible, path to victory.

Of course Donald Trump responded to a Gold Star Father in the worst possible way.