Outside the Beltway

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.

A trailblazing diplomat has died at 84.

Ukraine’s leader wants more help than he’s going to get.

The Russian leader is very unlikely to be hauled before the Hague.

Strikes near the Polish border show the real possibility of escalation.

It’s hard to see how this crisis ends.

The American President is once again leading the free world.

Putin’s forces are in Kyiv.

The first shoe has dropped.

The much-anticipated escalation has happened. Now to see how the United States and its allies respond.

The Biden administration is close to repairing the damage Trump caused.

Expert opinion on the standoff differs sharply.

The United States and its NATO allies are in a dangerous standoff.

The trailblazing soldier-statesman has died at 84.

American cheese will henceforth be known as liberté cheese. And not because of the metric system.

Those expecting Bernie Sanders’ agenda are sorely disappointed.

The longtime public servant has died, aged 100.

Yet another retired general in the post would be a bad idea.

The purge of non-loyalists continues.

The Times investigation sheds more light on what most of us already knew.

The National Security Advisor to Presidents Ford and GHW Bush has died.

Some explosive charges in the former National Security Advisor’s book.

Decades of reform efforts have failed. Is it time for a radical solution?

We are governed by the petty and myopic.

Finally.

Is being ruled by the elderly a bad thing?

There’s nothing to see here, folks.

The chief diplomat of the United States isn’t very diplomatic (nor informative).

In response to the American assassination of a top General, Iran has announced the end of yet more restrictions imposed by the 2015 nuclear deal.

Policies towards Iran and NK are both a mess.

With one speech, Kim Jong-Un has demonstrated the Trump Administration’s North Korea policy to have been an utter failure.

The DPRK is promising a “gift” to the United States. The only question seems to be what form it will take.

A much smaller debate stage led to a much better debate last night.

New polling shows that the American public does not support the President and his trade war.

WIth North Korea’s end of the year deadline for progress on talks quickly approaching, it is clear that the Trump Administration’s policies with regard to the DPRK have failed.

The final two witnesses in this week’s public hearings before the House Intelligence Committee reduced the Republican talking points in the President’s defense looking as absurd as they have always been.

Late last week, Attorney General William Barr demonstrated quite aptly the extent to which he has become just another Trump loyalist.

Former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch described how the President’s allies intimidated her out of her position, while the President intimidated her live on Twitter.

A top U.S. diplomat involved in Ukraine policy confirmed the existence of a quid pro quo regarding U.S aid to Ukraine.

So far at least, Elizabeth Warren is not doing a good job of articulating her foreign policy positions. That needs to change if she’s going to be a serious candidate.

A second potential whistleblower and an apparent criminal referral from the CIA’s top lawyer make a bad week even worse for Donald Trump.

It’s not just Ukraine.

A little bit of this for a little bit of that.

The latest allegations about exactly what the President may have been trying to do in a phone call with a foreign leader that caught the attention of a whistleblower are becoming more serious by the day.

A Harvard law professor makes my case better than I did.