Outside the Beltway

Our current round of speech repression may prove worse than McCarthyism.

There are no satisfying answers.

The Russian autocrat may be on the verge of getting what he wants.

A great actor is gone at 65.

First thing we do, let’s intimidate all the lawyers.

A shocking but completely unsurprising development.

What could go wrong?

Hitler comparisons.

A Republican columnist is angry that Trump, not Harris, is being seen as the incumbent.

His party got destroyed in EU elections, so he’s doubling down.

The Russian autocrat is emboldened.

There is no obvious better state of the peace acceptable to both parties.

But humans made all the decisions that matter.

A scholarly treatise argues it is not.

Apparently, Making Germany Great Again is controversial.

A poor answer to a softball question has created unnecessary controversy.

Why can’t some of us handle the truth?

It’s just resting.

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

A reminder that all choices are political to one degree or the other.

The New York Times looks into ties between a DC area law school and the Supreme Court.

Whither American civil religion?

Alliance leaders have significantly different priorities regarding the conflict.

President Biden’s dangerous gambit seems to have succeeded.

An object lesson on the challenges of alliance politics.

That time the Nazis made a movie about the Titanic.

Knowing what FNC is likely saying without watching FNC.

The times they are a changing.

Moscow is playing a very strange game.

Western powers may be at odds with the people doing the fighting and dying.

Vladimir Putin is banning commodity exports.

It’s hard to see how this crisis ends.

Actions deemed unthinkable days earlier are suddenly mandatory.

The ferocity of the global reaction to Putin’s invasion is stunning.

NATO has stepped up in a pleasantly surprising way to resist the Ukraine invasion.

The first shoe has dropped.

The veteran journalist and Fox News original is gone at 75.

A blast from the past.

What we know of the American servicemembers killed.

An interesting proposal to improve tax collection.

Not of governance.

The venerable military newspaper lives to print another day.

Some informed speculation.

Young people acting selfishly is a fact of life.

Only the best people.

Our intelligence professionals are issuing a familiar warning.

Much like the President they obsequiously defend, Republicans have become useful idiots in Russia’s war on Western liberal democracy.

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

Thirty years ago today, history took off in a brand new direction.