Outside the Beltway

A controversial article arguing prominent war critics should be targeted as enemy combatants is worth discussing.

In an interview, Donald Trump reveals that when it comes to foreign policy he has no idea what he’s talking about.

Prosecutors in South Carolina announced that they will seek the death penalty for Charleston shooter Dylann Roof.

Donald Trump is leading in Iowa, and very few things make sense anymore.

Dylann Roof has been indicted in Federal Court for completely unnecessary reasons.

The Afghan Army isn’t doing so well against the Taliban right now.

Any discussion of the Iran deal has to be about realistic alternatives, not fantasies.

Tragedy in Tennessee.

For the first time since 1961, there will soon be an American Embassy in Havana, and a Cuban Embassy in Washington. It’s well past time that this happened.

The people who continue to claim that the Confederate Flag is about anything other than hatred, racism, and a nation that celebrated slavery are lying to you and to themselves.

Good for her.

The Administration announced changes to the way the government handles hostage situations, but it really doesn’t amount to much.

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev appeared in public for what is likely the last time in his life, apologized for the crimes he committed, and was unsurprisingly sentenced to death by a Federal Judge.

David Frum calls for several measures to reduce gun violence.

PolitiFact rates President Obama’s claim that other countries don’t have mass shootings at rates comparable to America”Mostly False.”

The debate is ultimately academic.

A word that has come in recent years to be used to refer chiefly to Muslim fanatics obviously applies to a man who murdered nine people because they’re black.

Marine special operations forces have called themselves “Raiders” for years. Now it’s official.

The Supreme Court ruled that states don’t have to grant license plates that display the Confederate flag. Their decision has the potential to seriously harm the First Amendment.

A well-founded fear of ISIS seems to be drawing many of the former Soviet Republics in Central Asia closer to Moscow.

Hillary Clinton opened a new phase in her campaign for President yesterday with a speech in New York City.

Fool us once, shame on you. Fool us twice, shame on us.

A Federal Appeals Court In Washington has ruled that the military tribunal convictions of one group of Guantanamo Bay detainees was unconstitutional.

The American people don’t believe that liberty should be sacrificed in the name of security, but their leaders largely don’t care.