Outside the Beltway

The seemingly inevitable next step.

The preliminary DIA assessment has been leaked.

Is that really a good idea?

This phase seems to be over. [Or maybe not!]

A major reshuffling of the foreign policy team 100 days into the administration.

The saga of Kilmar Abrego Garcia continues to underscore the immoral nature of this presidency and its power goals.

Insights into Trump’s worldview.

Applying rational analysis to attitude and instinct.

The postwar era may have ended yesterday.

A shocking but completely unsurprising development.

MAGAing America edition.

A little ethnic cleansing coming right up.

More outrageous behavior.

Piling absurdity atop cruelty.

Deadlnes make deals.

Bizarre conspiracy theories shared by powerful people are immune to fact checking.

A mild-mannered JD Vance out-debated a nervous Tim Walz. It won’t matter.

A massive Israeli operation. To what end?

Or more charitably, forgets due to cognitive decline

A shocking development amidst regional turmoil.

Israel and Iran’s proxies are on a collision course.

Article 99 meets Catch-22.

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

The cease-fire will end. What follows is not at all clear.

A high-stakes move.

What does “complete victory” look like?

A roundup of news and opinon.

The longtime politician and statesman is gone at 75.

The US government is fighting back, albeit subtly.

A rare man and a rare milestone.

He’s turned Russia from a G-8 member to an international pariah.

Debt-trap diplomacy has finally come home to roost.

Don’t get your hopes up.

The Pope is siding with evil.

We’re all gonna die, folks.

Just like Trump’s except for every important detail.

What Americans say they want in the Oval Office.

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

Jim VandeHei and company have put out a new style guide.

The competition is slowly ratcheting up.

Normalcy is not a bad thing.

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

Foreign policy makes strange bedfellows.

From the Cliché File.

The retired general and think tank president is in hot water.

We expect far more from the Oval Office than is reasonable.

World opinion has shifted even more against Russia. Will it matter?

The President commits a Kinsley gaffe.