Outside the Beltway

The long-awaited document is less disruptive than it appears on the surface.

It’s huuuuge!

Our closest ally and trading partner is balancing against us.

The question mark is for the peak, not for the cowardice.

A slow-moving disaster.

…a gift for Dear Leader.

Just harness Senator Mullin’s views on regime change in Iran.

Trump has something in common with Hugo Chávez.

The NYT reports about likely war crimes by US forces.

We may be closer to regime change than any point since the 1979 Revolution.

So says Denmark’s prime minister.

“When the president does it, that means that it is not illegal.”

And what application does it have to Venezuela in 2026?

In case you missed it.

“People are being designated” dontcha know.

We’ve seen this movie before.

A bold proclamation.

The economy sparked this particular uprising.

Where’s Congress?

Sure, Donald. Whatever you say.

Ukraine’s president is trying to negotiate a deal that Russia will surely reject.

A clash between American and European models.

(More than) 12 Tomahawks a-bombing.

A reminder the US government sent people to CECOT who were then tortured.

With a heavy dose of Christian nationalism.

(While murdering people without due process because of [checks notes] drugs.)

The State Department will be pressing our closest allies to control their borders.

Bret Stephens wants to oust Maduro in Venezuela.

What could possibly go wrong?

The aid continues to grow.

He becomes the first French ex-head of state to be jailed since Marshal Pétain.

The hostages have been released, but the war appears back on.

I guess if we fail to vaporize you, you get treated like a criminial.

All 20 living hostages have been released and the bodies of others are slowly being returned.

A pause in fighting, release of hostages, and then . . . ?

A No masquerading as a Yes to Trump’s peace deal.

Brought to you by the “America First” crowd.

Netanyahu will take it.

Colombia’s President said the wrong thing and had his visa revoked.

We’re not alone in dysfunctional politics.

Birds of a feather and all that.

To be fully human requires living with and in sometimes unresolvable contradictions

The inevitable has finally arrived.

BREAKING NEWS

Since I was thinking about 2016

A strange obsession.

The artless deal.