Outside the Beltway

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.

Hillary Clinton delvers a largely successful acceptance speech that caps off a convention that ran far smoother than its Republican counterpart.

Donald Trump started out his campaign by telling us that the American dream is dead, and he returned to those dark and pessimistic themes in his acceptance speech last night.00

A night of terror mars Bastille Day celebrations in France.

President Obama will leave office as the first two term President who presided over eight years of war. It didn’t start with him and it won’t end with him.

The Dallas shooting spree ended with police killing the perpetrator with a drone. I’m okay with that.

American forces will continue to stay in Afghanistan well after Barack Obama leaves office thanks to a new policy announced today.

Hillary Clinton’s extreme carelessness with classified information probably won’t cost her the election, but it should.

Marines, especially female Marines, will be allowed to be heavier in the new year.

The presumptive Democratic nominee for president won’t be going to jail. But we knew that.

The wave of Ramadan attacks continues, including a strike near the second holiest site in Islam.

My latest for The National Interest has posted.

A third major terrorist attack inside of a week.

In a sign that the ongoing F.B.I. investigation into her use of a private email server and handling of classified information is coming to an end, the former Secretary of State was interviewed by Federal Agents today.

A third major ISIS-inspired or planned attack in three weeks.

A new poll finds strong public support for enhanced background checks and barring people on Federal watch lists from purchasing weapons.