Outside the Beltway

President Trump recently blamed former President Obama for “losing” Crimea. It was never ours to lose.

Last week, the Mexican Supreme Court pushed that country further down the road toward legalization of marijuana for all purposes.

Not one war, but five.

As expected, the North’s nuclear development continues.

One hundred years after the end of World War One, the forces that led to it are waking up from a long slumber.

British voters appear to be regretting their decision to leave the European Union, but it may be too late to stop the process.

In addition to being mandated by the Constitution, birthright citizenship goes to the core of what it means to be an American.

Europe has abandoned centuries-old laws against blasphemy, but the assault on so-called “hate speech” threatens to effectively bring them back.

As the Saudis continue to dissemble and put forward an utterly implausible explanation for the death of Jamal Khashoggi, the Trump Administration shows no sign of having a spine.

In another sign of the rapid secularization taking place in that country, Irish voters last weekend voted to rescind the nation’s centuries-old, albeit not recently enforced, law against blasphemy.

It’s been a month since Jamal Khashoggi disappeared after entering the Saudi consulate in Turkey. The Saudis are continuing to lie about it, and the Trump White House is letting them get away with it.

Angela Merkel announced yesterday that she would step aside as Chancellor at the end of her current term. What that means for the short and long term future of Germany and Europe is unclear.

President Trump’s trade war with China is leading car manufacturers to shift production from the U.S. to China.

The investigation of the murder of Jamal Khashoggi is inching closer to Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman, but it seems unlikely to impact his hold on power.

Donald Trump is talking about a tax cut that appears to exist only in his own mind.

Saudi Arabia’s story about the disappearance and death of Jamal Khashoggi continues to “evolve.”

Measles cases are on the rise in Europe due to the fact that, despite all the evidence to the contrary, people still believe the lies of the anti-vaccination movement.

The Saudi Foreign Minister expanded on his nation’s utterly implausible explanation for the death of Jamal Khashoggi

Yet more evidence against the Saudis in the murder of Jamal Khashoggi.

The dispute over Ukraine between the Russian Orthodox Church and the Orthodox Patriarch is widening and nearing the point of a complete break.

The Saudi Arabian Government is finally acknowledging that Jamal Khashoggi is dead. Their explanation for his death, though, is too absurd to be believed.

The Saudis are now apparently getting ready to push out a fall guy for the death of Jamal Khashoggi, an explanation as absurd as all the others they have offered to date.

Jamal Khashoggi’s final column includes a message that should resonate far beyond the Arab world it was addressed to.

The evidence linking the Saudi Crown Prince to the murder of Jamal Khashoggi seems irrefutable.

Marijuana is now legal in Canada, and many people are watching the country to see how it adjusts to this change.

Several of the men apparently tied to the murder of Jamal Khashoggi have close ties to Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.

Saudi Arabia is reportedly developing an explanation for the murder of Jamal Khashoggi that defies credulity.

The Saudis have been awful for generations. Why this?

After nearly a year, Trump’s trade policies are having their inevitable negative impact inside the United States.

Part III is here (a lot sooner than Part II was).

The Ukrainian branch of the Russian Orthodox Church is pushing for independence. Church leaders in Moscow are not too happy about this.

The second installment of a seemingly forgotten series.

Take one name out of contention as a potential replacement for Nikki Haley at the United Nations.

American involvement in the genocidal Saudi war on Yemen is getting more complicated. This is a bad idea.

Not surprisingly, it appears that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salam, who effectively runs Saudi Arabia under his father’s rule, is behind the apparent plot against Saudi dissident Jamal Khashoggi.

The evidence that Saudi Arabia murdered Washington Post columnist and American Permanent resident Jamal Khashoggi appears to be incontrovertible.

For the second time this year, a Federal Court has struck down a state law designed to punish businesses that engage in a boycott aimed at Israel.

BREAKING NEWS from multiple major news outlets.

Last Tuesday, Saudi dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi visited the Saudi consulate in Istanbul to obtain a document he needed. He hasn’t been seen since.

President Trump got his revised version of NAFTA, but Canadians are less positive about the United States than they have been in at least twenty years.

The three-decade-old name dispute between Greece and the former Yugoslav state of Macedonia remains unresolved after Sunday’s referendum.

Thanks to a last-minute agreement, the United States and Canada reached an agreement for a revised version of NAFTA. It’s a got a new name, but it’s basically NAFTA 2.0.

The legal troubles for Tesla’s Elon Musk just got a lot more serious.

President Trump is once again threatening to lower the tariff hammer on one of America’s most reliable allies and biggest trading partners.

President Trump’s second speech to the General Assembly of the United Nations wasn’t much better than the first, but it it did get the world laughing at us.

Last week, the Polish President floated the idea of a permanent U.S. military base in Poland. It’s a bad idea no matter how you look at it.

Donald Trump’s trade war is helping China expand its diplomatic influence.

As expected, President Trump announced a new round of tariffs against Chinese goods yesterday, and China quickly retaliated.

President Trump is set to expand his ill-advised, economically ignorant, trade war with China.

As part of her position as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley has use of a rather lavish private residence. This is not a real controversy.