Outside the Beltway

There’s no end in sight to an absurd standoff.

Vivek Ramaswamy’s national coming out party was, well, interesting.

Xi’s government is taking a drastically different approach to the slowdown.

Our Pacific territories are giving more than they’re getting.

The standoff with Senator Tuberville is reaching crisis levels.

Must every topic be viewed through that lens?

The Eurozone is falling further behind the United States.

Sigh.

Tommy Tuberville’s stunt is now impacting the highest levels of the military.

The evidence is pretty thin.

The President is trying to change perceptions ahead of the election.

Should we reform the way we train a high-tech workforce?

What about Biden?

After giving a softball interview, he apparently expected one in return.

The US intelligence community and Silicon Valley are warning of a major threat.

A bad idea backed up by worse reasoning.

Why Google isn’t AltaVista.

He’s turned Russia from a G-8 member to an international pariah.

Do we have to pick one?

Debt-trap diplomacy has finally come home to roost.

The state Senate has amended the bill considerably.

Who knew they got cell reception?

A bill in Alabama would bar Chinese nationals from buying property in the state.

As widely expected, Air Force Chief of Staff Charles “CQ” Brown will become the nation’s top military officer.

The process is much more stage managed than advertised.

The United States has not learned from Snowden and Manning.

You know the drill.

The problem has intensified—and spread beyond Ukraine secrets.

When winning is the only acceptable outcome.

Sanctions and a costly war are taking their toll.

It’s taken more than two years to undo a silly, petty decision.

The would-be President is floundering as he tries to position himself.

As memory of the Cold War fades, so does support for American primacy.

Hubris has set back the cause of science.

Many in the Global South see the war very differently than we in the West.

A post about thinking in a comparative way.

Old men still bitter about where they went to college.

It’s probably not strange visitors from outer space but we can’t rule it out.

Another bill doomed to die.

Tales of threat assessment and media reactions.

The PRC is skirting sanctions to supply a frienemy.

You be the judge.

Playing two-level games.

An object lesson on the challenges of alliance politics.

A more dangerous world is changing the relationship.

A second stash has led to a special counsel and political embarrassment.

The one-time Juiceboxer is still annoying the mainstream media.

A controversial artillery round is being used effectively against Russian forces.

The longtime journalist is gone at 100.