Outside the Beltway

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.