Outside the Beltway

No. But it won’t matter.

The war is on.

Is dropping it on Israel the most likely reason?

This week: monster movies of the 50s and 60s!

The scholar-statesman best known for coining “soft power” has died at 88.

Whether it’s a good policy will depend almost entirely on execution.

The Asia pivot is happening very slowly.

We are about to find out the degree to which trade wars are good and easy to win.

A great actor is gone at 65.

It’s still murky but already quite different from the Trump 45 administration’s.

A shocking but completely unsurprising development.

Normal transition . . . and potential red flags.

Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, and both Roosevelts pushed the envelope, too!

One thread that runs through most explanations for Tuesday’s result.

A third (and hopefully final) post on the matter.

They’re apparently ongoing. Who knew?

Five minutes is an eternity in the current information environment.

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

It’s more than competition but less than war.

Are we avoiding facing hard truths?

It’s been around for a very long time.

Several glimmers of hope from the Ukraine funding bill.

The sad joke continues.

A truly weird story.

Repeated academic integrity violations led to her forced ouster.

The BBC’s security correspondent thinks so.

The most important and controversial American diplomat of the postwar era is gone at 100.

A competent leader versus a lunatic would seem an easy choice. Alas.

A high-stakes move.

Our limited attention spans.

We won’t have Kevin to kick around anymore.

A longtime friend has passed.

There has been a steady decline the last five years.

Finally, a rationale that makes sense.

Is America’s military capable of fighting the next war?

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.

The Pope is siding with evil.

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

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

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

An object lesson on the challenges of alliance politics.

We’re all gonna die, folks.

Ezra Klein has some thought on the Republican Party.

A more dangerous world is changing the relationship.

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

A 34-year CIA officer’s thoughts.

The collaboration has been even more robust than advertised.