Outside the Beltway

First there was the Department of Redundancy Department. Now for something completely different.

A Supreme Court Justice says our laws and regulations are out of control.

New information has changed my thinking on this.

An understandable but wrongheaded action.

While foreign policy seldom decides American elections, it really should this year.

The dance continues.

The Netanyahu government has few friends.

A kerfuffle is brewing over the way the United States fights hunger in the global south.

A truly weird story.

Tehran-backed forces are routinely shooting at American forces.

Why is the Senate pretending to do that which it can’t possibly do?

The House is in recess as the exasperated GOP leadership tries to figure a way out.

The Senate is voting one-by-one in the face of the Tuberville hold on top nominees.

It turns out, he wasn’t all that truthful.

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

Thousands of LGBTQ veterans are seeking to have their discharges upgraded.

A standoff over social issues may derail a $900 billion budget bill.

President Biden has ended a months-long impasse.

The taxpayers shelled out nearly $1 million for . . . something.

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

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

The Wall Street Journal failed a key test.

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

He’s likely to make heads explode.

The United States has not learned from Snowden and Manning.

The problem has intensified—and spread beyond Ukraine secrets.

A wrongheaded if longstanding position.

Playing two-level games.

An object lesson on the challenges of alliance politics.

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

The Army has done the right thing the wrong way.

There’s training on uncomfortable subjects. Oh noes!

A truly bizarre vote.

Shockingly, the Defense Department doesn’t keep up with former employees.

A brilliant national security leader is gone too soon.

The collaboration has been even more robust than advertised.

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

The Pentagon’s Inspector General is “concerned” over the pace of rejections.

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

It goes deeper than base names.

It’s much bigger than it appears.

Both sides have had their say and now we wait for a ruling.

While enormous, the commander-in-chief’s control over state secrets is not absolute.

The former President and his supporters are crying “weaponization of the justice system.”

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

The laying out of the case begins.

A wackadoodle colonel is on his way out.

A fascinating report from the WSJ.

The Defense Department shares the worst-kept secret about the war effort.

Another glass ceiling has been shattered.