Outside the Beltway

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.