Outside the Beltway

There is a strong push inside the administration to allow use of US weapons to strike Russia.

It’s about time.

Netanyahu is defying the international community.

The Brits may soon have yet another Conservative PM.

Hopefully answering a reader question (but probably just making it all worse).

If the United Kingdom does go through with Brexit, it could lead to an existential crisis for the United Kingdom itself.

With the 2019 United Kingdom General Election campaign just starting, Boris Johnson and the Tories look to be in strong shape. However, anything can happen in the next six weeks.

The UK is being given yet more time to figure out the obvious.

More on rules and how they matter (plus issues of representation).

The so-called “rebel alliance’ in the House of Commons continues to stack up wins against British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, but Johnson could still win in the end.

The fight to determine the leader of the Conservative Party, and the next British Prime Minister, is down to two candidates, but there’s one clear favorite.

Boris Johnson is one step closer to becoming the next Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

Boris Johnson, who is currently the apparent frontrunner to succeed Theresa May as Conservative Party leader and British Prime Minister, has been ordered to appear in court on charges he lied during the 2016 Brexit campaign.

Boris Johnson seems to be the leader in the race to replace Theresa May as Conservative Party leader. Whether that’s a good thing is another question.

Theresa May has announced she is stepping down as leader of the Conservative Party as of June 7th, starting a process that will have her out of Downing Street withing the next two months or so.

Many are calling for the UK Prime Minister’s ouster. But the problem is Brexit itself, not any one leader.

Theresa May is trying to save a Brexit deal that appears to be becoming more doomed by the day.

The Scots want to stop Brexit, but it’s not clear they have the power to stop it.

Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon is hinting she might try to revive a Scottish independence vote in the wake of Brexit. That’s easier said than done.

As Brexit negotiations go on and the consequences of Britain leaving the European Union become clearer, some Britons are starting to ask for a chance at a second referendum.

Reports are indicating that President Trump may cancel or delay his trip to the United Kingdom due to planned protests.

A massive political miscalculation by Theresa May leads to an uncertain future in the United Kingdom.

Great Britain heads to the polls today.

A political surprise in Great Britain as Prime Minister Theresa May calls a snap election for June 8th.

Scotland’s First Minister is calling for another independence vote in the wake of the beginning of the Brexit process, but she’s unlikely to get it.

British Prime Minister Theresa May made it clear that she intends to move forward with Brexit.

A quick succession of events this morning means that Theresa May will become Britain’s Prime Minister far sooner than anticipated.

Regardless of the outcome of the Conservative Party’s leadership race, the next Prime Minister of the United Kingdom will be a woman.

One week after the Brexit vote, both the Conservative and Labour parties find themselves in chaos.

Many pundits are arguing that the victory for ‘Leave’ presages good news for Trump in November, but there’s no reason to believe that.

By a narrow margin, British voters have chosen to send their nation, themselves, and indeed all of Europe into uncharted waters.

Voters in the United Kingdom are headed to the polls in a vote that will have widespread consequences.

A freshman Member of Parliament was murdered today, and there may have been a political motive.

With just over a week to go, the latest polling shows voters in the United Kingdom leaning toward leaving the European Union.

One down. How many more to go?

A series of bomb attacks across Brussels has left at least 26 dead, and dozens more injured.

Britons will go to the polls in June to decide the future of their country’s relationship with the rest of Europe.

Donald Trump’s plan to exclude Muslims from the United States is provoking condemnation, and confusion, around the world.

Yesterday, the British Parliament debated the expansion of that nation’s military strikes against ISIS. For more than a year, our cowardly Congress has failed to even hold one debate or vote on America’s role in that conflict.

The British Parliament has approved expansion of that countries airstrikes into Syria, but it’s unclear just how much of an impact that will have on the ground.

France’s President has spent the week trying to forge and agreement on an anti-ISIS policy, but the two nations that matter the most also disagree the most.

A potentially big complication in an already complicated situation.

Legislators in Spain’s Catalonia region took a step toward independence, but Madrid apparently wants nothing to do with it.

America’s much touted international coalition against ISIS is, essentially a Coalition In Name Only.

American intelligence officials are saying that a Russian passenger jet that went down over Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula was most likely brought down by a bomb.

If pre-election polling is to be believed, Stephan Harper and Canada’s Conservative Party seem likely to lose power after Monday’s elections, but there are several reasons why this may not end up being the case.

Britain’s Labour Party has taken a hard tilt left with the election of Jeremy Corbyn as leader.