Outside the Beltway

South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg laid out his foreign policy platform in a speech this week. It’s certainly an improvement over the current President.

This time on Venezuela

Expanding on events that have been going on for months, two oil tankers were attacked today near the entrance to the Persian Gulf

Beginning tomorrow in a British courtroom, the United States will begin the process of having Julian Assange extradited to the United States to face espionage and other charges.

Protests in Hong Kong as police unleashed tear gas on protesters and authorities delayed a vote on a controversial extradition law.

Amusing results, and a history lesson, in a new poll

Recent comments by the U.S. Ambassador to Israel make it clear that the United States cannot be considered a neutral party In the Middle East peace process.

President Trump’s tariffs are having a noticeable, and negative, impact on global economies. The President doesn’t seem to care.

Protesters flooded the streets of Hong Kong on Sunday over proposed change to the city’s extradition laws.

The President and his supporters are touting the last-minute deal with Mexico announced on Friday, but the details show there’s much less than meets the eye.

The United States and Mexico reached a last-minute deal to avert tariffs that would have gone into effect on Monday. Whether the deal accomplishes anything substantive remains to be seen.

While the American media was paying attention to President travels and travails in Europe, there was another meeting taking place.

Thirty years ago, when the veterans of D-Day were still relatively young and still largely with us, President Reagan delivered one of the finest speeches of his Presidency.

The President’s foolish tariffs against Mexico are finally causing many Republican Senators to stand up against him.

This time: India.

Jared Kushner’s long-awaited Middle East peace plan is still awaiting release, but it already appears to be dead on arrival.

Hours before departing the United States for a pomp and circumstance filled State Visit to the United Kingdom, President Trump sticks his foot in his mouth.

It’s been just about fifteen months since President Trump imposed tariffs on imported steel and aluminum. Not surprisingly, those tariffs have not had the effect the President claimed they would.

A thinly-sourced but utterly believable tale of evil.

Despite appearing to have emerged from April’s election as the winner, Benjamin Netanyahu was unable to form a government. This means that Israel will have to hold new elections in September.

Boris Johnson, who is currently the apparent frontrunner to succeed Theresa May as Conservative Party leader and British Prime Minister, has been ordered to appear in court on charges he lied during the 2016 Brexit campaign.

Despite opposition from the Catholic Church, or perhaps in rebellion against it, Irish voters overwhelmingly approved a new law liberalizing that nation’s divorce laws.

The pro-Brexit Brexit Party and the anti-Brexit Liberal Democrats both scored big wins in the United Kingdom’s E.U. elections, while the two major parties suffered big losses.

The transatlantic rejection of elite consensus that began with Brexit continues.

Boris Johnson seems to be the leader in the race to replace Theresa May as Conservative Party leader. Whether that’s a good thing is another question.

President Trump is in Japan, and while there is is dismissing the seriousness of new North Korean missile tests that threaten Japan.

The cost of Trump’s trade policies are well beyond the cost of soy beans.

Earlier this week, SpaceX deployed the first 60 satellites in a network that could result in Internet access from virtually anywhere in the world.

Theresa May has announced she is stepping down as leader of the Conservative Party as of June 7th, starting a process that will have her out of Downing Street withing the next two months or so.

So good. So easy to win.

Surprising pollsters and political analysts down under, Australia’s ruling center-right coalition pulled off a big win in Saturday’s election.

Taiwan has become the first nation in Asia to legally recognize same-sex marriage.

The President’s trade policies stand to benefit a lot of other countries, just not the United States.

As it has in so many other areas, the right has sacrificed it’s previously held beliefs on international trade to feckless obedience toward President Trump.

British Prime Minister Theresa May is seeking an extension on her promise to leave office at the same time that the political future of her Conservative Party becomes increasingly doubtful.

The Trump Administration is proposing another round of tariffs on even more Chinese goods.

China has retaliated for the tariffs that the President imposed late last week, and things look like they’re only going to get worse.

With his attempt to overthrow the government clearly a failure, Juan Guaidó is back to calling for foreign military intervention in Venezuela.

As he had threatened, President Trump has imposed new tariffs on Chinese goods, making a bad situation even worse.

Donald Trump’s tariffs are hurting the American economy, American consumers, and American businesses.

This could be a very big deal – unless it isn’t.

As the Friday deadline for trade talks with China approaches, President Trump is threatening even more tariffs.

We segregate men and women in sports for good reason. How we do that is complicated.

With the apparent failure of the coup attempt in Venezuela, what happens next?

The former Kentucky coal executive, Republican fundraiser, and Ambassador to Canada would replace Nikki Haley in what used to be a position dominated by more experienced diplomats.

Lacking any real support from the military or police, the attempted coup against Nicolas Maduro has predictably failed.

While street protests continue, the efforts to get the Venezuelan military to oust President Nicolas Maduro appear to have failed.

The ongoing apparent attempted coup in Venezuela is already leading to talk of American intervention in the event of a crackdown. That would be unwise and unjustified.

Emperor Akihito became the first Japanese Emperor to abdicate the throne in 200 years today.

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