Outside the Beltway

Recent polling finds that Americans aren’t feeling quite so patriotic right now. It’s understandable, but we shouldn’t give up hope.

What was once a rare symbol of national mourning has become so commonplace as to be meaningless.

Some activists on the left are calling for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to be abolished. While that may be a great sound bite, it doesn’t really accomplish anything.

Either the President of the United States is a knowing liar or he is very easily duped. Neither is a comforting thought.

Notwithstanding the rhetoric of the President and his supporters, most Americans believe that immigration is a good thing for the United States.

The Administration is going to unveil a plan for a major reorganization of government agencies today.

A federal trial court has ruled the practice an unconstitutional infringement on suffrage.

Not surprisingly, Canadians aren’t very happy about President Trump’s attacks on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

Once again, President Trump seems intent on insulting a major American ally.

Echoing the Obama Administration, the Trump Administration is arguing that it did not need Congressional authorization to attack Syria earlier this year.

President Trump has issued another controversial pardon.

The N.F.L. has come up with a dumb “solution” to a non-existent problem.

When “reasonable suspicion” and free speech collide.

With a third Democrat crossing the aisle to support her, Gina Haspel now has the votes she needs to become the next C.I.A. Director.

61 percent of Americans have a favorable impression of a man who left office a failed president.

Does the administration know what it is doing?

Gina Haspel faced some tough questions from Democrats regarding her role in the C.I.A.’s post-9/11 torture programs, but she’s likely to be confirmed anyway.

With the start of her confirmation hearings just days away, Gina Haspel’s nomination to be C.I.A. Director is by no means secure.

The Vice-President’s personal physician accused Ronny Jackson of misconduct back in September, according to new reports.

President Trump’s on-again, off-again visit to Great Britain appears to be on again.

Without Congressional authorization, any attack on Syria would be illegal, but don’t expect Congress to do anything about it.

The Atlantic fired one of their few conservative voices for saying women who have abortions should be hanged. Was this beyond the pale?

A blog post and resulting Twitter exchange point to a larger problem in our political dialog.

The ‘permanent record’ of yesteryear is now real. Should there be limitations?

Kids are more likely to be killed driving to school than shot while there. That doesn’t mean we shouldn’t try and prevent them.

We form stereotypes about generational cohorts when they’re very young and then freeze them.

Elliot Cohen laments the lack of steel in the spine of the statesmen, diplomats, soldiers, and thinkers of the current generation.

Donald Trump’s dereliction of duty in response to clear evidence of Russian interference in the 2016 election is a staggering and flagrant dereliction of the duties he agreed to take on when he took the Oath Of Office more than a year ago.

A series of scandals at Oxfam and other charitable organizations raise troubling questions.

My latest for The National Interest takes a contrarian view on the new National Defense Strategy.

The military options thus far presented for dealing with the DPRK have not been satisfying.

When it comes to foreign policy, Donald Trump has no over-arching philosophy and little knowledge, so don’t expect anything approaching a coherent doctrine from his Administration.

The numbers aren’t looking good for Republican prospects in this year’s midterm elections.

Yesterday was the seventy-sixth anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor. For most Americans, though, it was just another day. That’s only natural.

Roy Moore wishes he was back in the days of cotton when families were close and African-Americans were enslaved.

Another mass shooting.

America has become involved in conflicts around the world, largely without the knowledge of the American people or the consent of their representatives, and it doesn’t appear that’s going to end anytime soon.

New polling shows increased support for gun control measures in the wake of Las Vegas, but it’s not likely to last and it won’t lead to any significant action by Congress.

A sign of hope that Alabama voters could end up rejecting the far-right theocratic politics of Roy Moore? Possibly.

At some point, it will be time to move on.

Trump isn’t going to win any regional popularity awards in LA.

Who could have predicted we would be where we are at the moment in terms of racial politics and the White House?

President Trump’s reaction to the terror attack in Spain included an easily debunked lie about one of America’s most decorated Generals.

Authorities are being second-guessed over their handling of Saturday’s protests. Virginia gun laws are the more obvious problem.

Hatred and violence in Charlottesville, Virginia.

Vice-President Pence is advocating the admission of Georgia into NATO. That would be a bad idea.

Donald Trump is the most unpopular incoming President in more than eighty years.

Last week was one of the worst week’s the still-young Trump Administration has faced, and new tracking poll data is starting to reflect that.