Outside the Beltway

First there was the Department of Redundancy Department. Now for something completely different.

The Congressman and Green Beret colonel will head Trump’s national security team.

Trump’s foreign policy team is taking shape.

Putting down markers for future reference.

Trump’s core policies will drive inflation

After 29 days . . . a proportionate response.

In idea whose time is gone.

Closing the barn door after the horse has left.

Bizarre conspiracy theories shared by powerful people are immune to fact checking.

Trump Bibles: made in China.

The 45th President and the press, part a million.

The grift just keeps on griftin’ along.

His former National Security Advisor is not impressed.

Too many! Too few!

It’s not been a great few days for J. D. Vance

While foreign policy seldom decides American elections, it really should this year.

The fine line between xenophobia and patriotism.

The world’s largest democracy just became more democratic.

It’s a problematic concept.

Most of the biggest countries in the world have birth rates below replacement level.

A small, conscript-driven military has very different training and doctrine than ours.

A shocking development amidst regional turmoil.

It’s more than competition but less than war.

Are we avoiding facing hard truths?

He’s ratcheted up what Trump started but also shifted focus.

Yesterday’s New Jersey speech was something to behold.

An interesting analysis by The Economist.

The United States has less press freedom than 54 countries. Or does it?

A minor gaffe is overshadowing a more complicated story.

Several glimmers of hope from the Ukraine funding bill.

The Western sphere widens.

The courts would likely allow restricting a Chinese data mining operation popular with American teenagers.

While the West dithers, Russia is doubling down.

Some of these have been piling up for a while.

He’s suddenly a billionaire after all.

A long overdue strengthening of a key alliance.

A long-predicted threat has emerged.

A scholarly treatise argues it is not.

A well-intentioned but likely doomed effort.

The politics of chaos.

The food is too damn high!

Fighting a cult of personality is exhausting.

Ezra Klein makes a compelling case.

The White House is doing damage control.

Stories I’m reading but unlikely to write about.

Cost cutting and the decline of venerable brands.

They don’t make ’em like they used to.

Trump and Trump-adjacent stories for this round of Tabs.

The BBC’s security correspondent thinks so.

Those seeking to escape the global south are facing resistance from DC to London to Paris.