Outside the Beltway

If it hasn’t happened already, it soon will.

But did he ever really have it?

The trailblazing television interviewer is gone at 93.

Russia is humiliated but not defeated. Ukraine is winning but at a very high price.

United States and People’s Republic of China forces are playing a dangerous game.

The elite consensus that free trade would bring them around is gone.

The Biden Administration wants clean energy but only for some.

Prices are coming down but they’re way higher than they were.

A move away from a centuries old Asian practice.

A 34-year CIA officer’s thoughts.

Spoiler alert: the GOP has already failed this test multiple times.

Washington has imposed a contract that workers rejected.

Anger over COVID lockdowns has activated myriad frustrations.

Waaaay too little, waaay too late.

President Biden is being pressured to face the music after the midterms.

A deep dive into why our politics are so broken.

The company is begrudgingly complying with the EU’s requirement.

A brilliant national security leader is gone too soon.

He’s using a tool he denounced as cruel to deal with a humanitarian crisis.

Biden is following Trump’s lead but doing it more competently.

The threat is not idle and the options for responding are not good.

A phony annexation doesn’t hide that he’s badly losing his illegal war.

Eighteen HIMARS and what do you get? Years older and deeper in debt.

The President is getting hammered from all sides for stating the obvious.

What once seemed to be ‘saying the quiet part out loud’ is now administration policy.

CNN’s original anchorman is gone at 82.

After decades of exporting American jobs, corporations are bringing them home.

“America can survive the demagogues themselves, it’s their audience that will kill us.”

The Speaker’s trip was reckless, needlessly escalating an already tense situation.

Instead of a clenched fist of support, it was a big middle finger to Sweden and Finland.

The competition is slowly ratcheting up.

Normalcy is not a bad thing.

Not only has the war changed, but so have the combatants.

Columnists write bad columns apologizing for bad columns.

The economy, it turns out, is complicated.

An embarrassing photo demonstrates the perils of leading the free world.

The 79-year-old will be 80 on his next birthday.

Japan’s longest-serving prime minister was killed at a campaign rally. He was 67.

They’re stealing our secrets and working to undermine our elections.

Remarkably, he had contact information on there!

The Western alliance is getting stronger in the face of Russian aggression.

How long can the unsustainable be sustained?

From the Cliché File.

Yet another study that confirms my pre-existing biases.

The President continues his recent penchant for saying the quiet part out loud.

Supply chain disruptions are contributing to crisis for 300 million people.

The 45th President was a psychopath.

Some 60% of us, including 75% of our children, have been infected.

Crises tend to be distracting.