Outside the Beltway

A monumental achievement—with a huge asterisk.

A slow-moving disaster.

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.