Outside the Beltway

How rules shape the game.

The boring moderate beat the neo-Nazi with 58% of the vote.

The incumbent should win easily but turnout is low and the consequences dire.

Brussels has gotten ahead of Washington in regulating mostly American-based Internet companies.

A fascinating report from the WSJ.

Whether deliberate or another ‘gaffe,’ he’s likely right.

The first round is currently being held.

The West continues to close Moscow off.

It would be fitting but, alas, won’t happen.

The only way to save our freedom is to destroy it.

The invasion has led to a series of proxy wars.

What will Zelensky, Putin, and the West settle for?

New evidence changes the story ever so slightly.

The anti-vax-and-other-stuff protest is spreading to Europe.

Speaking of elections.

American cheese will henceforth be known as liberté cheese. And not because of the metric system.

If it’s made in France, it’s “sparkling wine.”

For anyone who might be interested.

The right questions are: 1) why do some some on the right like him, and 2) should this concern us all?

And so general discussion of vaccine passports and requirements in the US.

More than 73 percent of Britons will be vaccinated or previously-infected by Monday.

A reckoning for 2500 Kosovar Serb civilians who were slaughtered is at hand.

The architect of the plan admits he was wrong.

Two new studies bring more questions than answers.

Orban has used Covid-19 to kill whatever vestiges of democracy remained.

The PM and the Health Minister have both tested positve.

The 71-year-old heir to the British throne has tested positive and is in self-isolation.

President Erdogan is playing a dangerous game.

Boris Johnson and the Conservative Party are on course for a big win in December 12th’s General Election.

He raises a very real problem.

Brits will head to the polls for the fourth time in four years with the future of Brexit on the ballot.

The UK is being given yet more time to figure out the obvious.

With just over two weeks to go until the deadline, the status of Brexit is entirely unclear.

More on rules and how they matter (plus issues of representation).

Just so we all know it isn’t just the US suffering a crisis of leadership…

Jacques Chirac, who served two terms as President of France and was a strong opponent of the Iraq War, has died.

The so-called “rebel alliance’ in the House of Commons continues to stack up wins against British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, but Johnson could still win in the end.

The reaction to Boris Johnson’s move to suspend Parliament to force a hard Brexit is mostly negative, but there appears to be little that can be done to stop it.

Another day, another Trump temper tantrum.

It looks as if Boris Johnson’s government could be looking to call for a snap election to he held in the immediate aftermath of Brexit.

Boris Johnson has been in office for barely a week and he’s already facing an existential political crisis.

Boris Johnson now has the job he’s wanted since he entered politics. Whether he succeeds or fails should become readily apparent rather quickly.

Boris Johnson won the fight for the leadership of Great Britain’s Conservative Party and will soon become the next British Prime Minister. That was the easy part.

As early as Tuesday, Boris Johnson could be confirmed as the winner in the race for Tory leadership. This will make him the next British Prime Minister. Not everyone in the United Kingdom is thrilled about that idea.

Recent video showing what appears to be uncontrolled shaking are raising health concerns about German Chancellor Angela Merkel.

The NYT provides an incredibly bad take on parliamentary government.

The next Prime Minster of the United Kingdom will be chosen by a very small segment of both the population and the Conservative Party. Does that make sense?

In memos to his superiors, the British Ambassador to the United States had an exceedingly frank, and negative, assessment of the current occupant of the White House.

Evidence appears to clearly established that Russia used many of the same social media efforts it used in the United States in 2016 to interfere in the recent European Parliament elections.

The fight to determine the leader of the Conservative Party, and the next British Prime Minister, is down to two candidates, but there’s one clear favorite.