Outside the Beltway

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

Part of a disturbing trend.

He was both the youngest and oldest man to run the Pentagon.

Or, you know, not.

Israel’s long national nightmare is over. Or is it?

A major first step to solving a longstanding global issue.

SLT talking Colombia.

What constitutes a “low income” or “high income” country?

Mostly about how not to do it.

The numbers are staggering and getting worse.

The US has more shots available than willing arms while those in the developing world are dying.

The President has overturned decades of US foreign policy and alienated a NATO ally for, well, reasons.

Yes, it’s complicated, but it is also time to stop relying on cliches.

President Biden has a second chance to do the right thing.

Iran’s top nuclear facility is offline again.

Stenography is not journalism.

A problematically wide-open election in difficult times.

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

Those expecting Bernie Sanders’ agenda are sorely disappointed.

At least 50 million doses of the AstraZeneca are sitting in American facilities unused.

The job losses and hit to the service sector is well documented. But trade has radically shifted, too.

It’s easy if you try.

The fecklessness of U.S. human rights policy in full display.

Aung San Suu Kyi and her top officials are under house arrest.

History has been made in more than one way.

Biden’s America is a place and idea in which the trappings of empire or glory are ephemera in comparison with perennial human relationships—families; friendships; communities; schools; neighbors; partners.

A look back at the last time there was a challenge to a slate of electors.

Tunisia is freer but poorer than it was before Mohamed Bouazizi’s desperate act.

The 46th President’s foreign policy team is taking shape.

Most leaders ring up Joe.

The man behind the 1998 embassy attacks is dead.

A brief video that puts the US in broader context.

The data on Sweden and Covid-19 don’t fit the media narrative.

The stakes of losing will be catastrophic. Either way.

A little comparative politics.

Some recommended reading.

Pondering lack of US interest in our friends to the south.

The pandemic is having serious effects in the region, and they will persist for some time.

There are different, and not equally good, reasons to talk about labels.

The National Security Advisor to Presidents Ford and GHW Bush has died.

Our response to Covid-19 has been exceptional in all the wrong ways.

The President didn’t want to hear about bad behavior from Moscow, so he wasn’t told.

One of these things is not like the others.

The evolution of America’s racial language continues.

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

Clips of recent police behavior reminded me far too much of scenes from authoritarian Latin America.

The architect of the plan admits he was wrong.

Two new studies bring more questions than answers.

Some global comparisons.

In recent weeks the US has ramped-up pressure on Maduro.