Outside the Beltway

Not surprisingly, the President’s opening speech of the 2020 campaign was filed with lies.

As we head toward a potential crisis in the Persian Gulf, the consequences of the President’s lies are coming home to roost.

While the world is largely focused on the much larger trade war with China, the United States is engaged in a similar battle with a nation that ought to be a natural ally.

Tensions are increasing in the Persian Gulf as the Iran war hawks seem to be winning the battle for the President’s support.

Not only are we deploying it more slowly than China and others but we’re doing it in a way that will live behind rural Americans.

If Hong Kong’s leaders thought protesters would be satisfied with relatively minor concessions, they have significantly miscalculated the situation.

Four years ago, Donald Trump began his campaign for President. What has followed has been as bad as could have been predicted that day.

A new report suggests that the Chinese movie-going market will surpass the American market in 2020.

A new report in The New York Times raises both national security and Constitutional concerns.

In the wake of massive protests, Hong Kong’s government begins to back away from support for a controversial extradition bill.

South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg laid out his foreign policy platform in a speech this week. It’s certainly an improvement over the current President.

How much sacrifice in our consumer culture is it worth to save the planet?

President Trump says in a new interview that he would be willing to break the law to get “oppo research” on an opponent.

Protests in Hong Kong as police unleashed tear gas on protesters and authorities delayed a vote on a controversial extradition law.

President Trump’s tariffs are having a noticeable, and negative, impact on global economies. The President doesn’t seem to care.

The current economic recovery turns ten years old this month, but it can’t last forever.

Protesters flooded the streets of Hong Kong on Sunday over proposed change to the city’s extradition laws.

The United States and Mexico reached a last-minute deal to avert tariffs that would have gone into effect on Monday. Whether the deal accomplishes anything substantive remains to be seen.

The Trump Administration continues to misstate what the DPRK agreed to regarding its nuclear program. That’s why talks between the two nations are stalled.

While the American media was paying attention to President travels and travails in Europe, there was another meeting taking place.

May’s Jobs Report came back with disappointing jobs growth, suggesting that the economy may be slowing down.

Donald Trump has betrayed the legacy and the sacrifices of the soldiers who fought their way onto the beaches of Normandy.

Thirty years ago, when the veterans of D-Day were still relatively young and still largely with us, President Reagan delivered one of the finest speeches of his Presidency.

The GOP Senators standing up against the President’s tariffs on Mexico are being called courageous. I’m wondering what took them so long to stand up.

This time: India.

His colum in WaPo isn’t very good.

It’s been just about fifteen months since President Trump imposed tariffs on imported steel and aluminum. Not surprisingly, those tariffs have not had the effect the President claimed they would.

Last night, President Trump announced a new round of tariffs against Mexico for reasons that have nothing to do with trade itself.

The DPRK sent a message to the United States over the weekend, but it’s unlikely the President was listening.

Do you want to get money out of politics? You need to get politics out of money.

The cost of Trump’s trade policies are well beyond the cost of soy beans.

Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has been indicted on seventeen counts under the Espionage Act arising out of his role in the Chelsea Manning affair.

So good. So easy to win.

President Trump is reportedly planning to pardon several American servicemen convicted of war crimes, an action that would be an insult to everyone who has ever worn an American uniform.

Some 2020 Democratic hopefuls are turning to a surprising source for counsel.

Surprising pollsters and political analysts down under, Australia’s ruling center-right coalition pulled off a big win in Saturday’s election.

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

One of the most well-known architects of the modern era has passed away.

The President’s trade policies stand to benefit a lot of other countries, just not the United States.

As it has in so many other areas, the right has sacrificed it’s previously held beliefs on international trade to feckless obedience toward President Trump.

The Trump Administration is proposing another round of tariffs on even more Chinese goods.

Yet another candidate joins an already crowded field for the 2020 Democratic Presidential nomination.

China has retaliated for the tariffs that the President imposed late last week, and things look like they’re only going to get worse.

President Trump’s foreign policy has largely been a failure, and there are specific reasons why.

Despite similar paths to the Supreme Court, it turns out the two don’t share the same style and approach.

Trump’s penchant for behaving more like a talk radio host than a POTUS continues unabated.

As he had threatened, President Trump has imposed new tariffs on Chinese goods, making a bad situation even worse.

Patrick Shanahan, who has been serving as Acting Defense Secretary since James Mattis left in December, is being selected to replace Mattis in that position.

While he campaigned on a message of restraint, Donald Trump has largely adopted the interventionist foreign policies of his predecessors.

The Trump Administration is taking an unnecessarily militaristic approach toward Iran, and that poses real dangers for the country and for the Middle East.