Outside the Beltway

Ezra Klein makes a compelling case.

Apparently, Making Germany Great Again is controversial.

Germany’s economy is among the worst in the OECD.

He’s turned Russia from a G-8 member to an international pariah.

The threat is not idle and the options for responding are not good.

This time: some multi-party examples.

Speaking of elections.

Should live-saving drugs be protected intellectual property?

It’s time to up our protection game.

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

French President Emmanuel Macron declared that the NATO alliance is suffering brain death due to President Trump’s neglect and lack of leadership.

A little bit of this for a little bit of that.

A newly released report leaked from inside the British Government notes that a hard Brexit is likely to be a disaster for the British economy.

Donald Trump has found a new far-right lunatic to retweet.

The Trump Era is raising doubts about many things, including America’s most important alliance.

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

Whether he knows it or not, Donald Trump is assisting the Russian leader in his goal of undermining the foundational institutions of democracy and freedom.

The latest in the wars against liberalism.

The tree that President Trump and French President Macron planted last year has died.

Gone are ‘climate change’ and ‘skeptic.’ In are ‘global heating’ and ‘denier.’

The United States agreed to pay North Korea $2 million for “medical treatment” for Otto Warmbier. Did the Trump Administration actually pay the bill? They aren’t saying.

Free expression sometimes enables horrible crimes. How does a free society deal with that tension?

Notwithstanding President Trump’s tariffs, America’s trade deficit hit a record level last year.

Once again, President Trump proves that in the face of evil he is a coward and a disgrace.

The Trump Administration continues to drive a wedge between the United States and Europe, can it ever be repaired?

Theresa May is facing an unexpected challenge to her leadership even as she deals with trying to save a Brexit deal that nobody seems to like.

Theresa May is trying to save a Brexit deal that appears to be becoming more doomed by the day.

The European Union has approved the final Brexit deal negotiated with Theresa May’s government, but the final chapter has yet to be written.

As Brexit hangs by a thread in the United Kingdom, the European Union makes clear that renegotiation of the agreement that has been reached is a non-starter.

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

Claiming it was because of the weather President Trump chose to skip a visit to a cemetery at the site of one of the bloodiest battles involving Americans in World War One.

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 private phone calls are apparently a major source of intelligence for foreign nations.

President Trump is alienating our allies and making friends with dictators, and the world is responding as you might expect they would.

A basic explanation for Trump’s behavior towards Russia.

The 95-year-old elder statesman is slowly shedding his public reticence at the risk of the access on which he has built his fortune.

The NATO Summit is going about as well as can be expected.

The right-wing government in Warsaw has purged more than one-third of the members of the Polish Supreme Court in a crackdown on political opponents.

Donald Trump continues to do something that Russian and Soviet leaders likely only thought possible in their wildest dreams, drive a wedge between the United States and its NATO allies.

President Trump reportedly trashed the NATO alliance in conversations at the G-7 Summit, something that should make Russian President Vladimir Putin quite happy.

President Trump continues to dismiss concerns about Kim Jong Un’s brutality, and to lavish praise on a man who has a considerable amount of blood on his hands.

Thanks to Donald Trump, the happiest man in the world right now is Vladimir Putin.

European alliance and Russian goals edition.

The actions of the Trump administration are helping Russian-EU relations (to the detriment of the US).

The new American Ambassador to Germany is making what clearly seem to be inappropriate statements about domestic politics in Europe.

A new book reveals President Obama’s initial reaction to Donald Trump’s election, and provides some detail about their first meeting.

President Trump’s decision to violate the terms of the nuclear deal with Iran could be a turning point in relations between the United States and its most important allies, and not in a good way.

As expected, President Trump has withdrawn the United States from the nuclear deal with Iran. There was no rational basis for doing so.

A majority of Americans want the President to stay in the nuclear deal with Iran. That’s unlikely to matter to him.