Outside the Beltway

There’s more than enough opinion journalism.

Tunisia is freer but poorer than it was before Mohamed Bouazizi’s desperate act.

The 46th President’s foreign policy team is taking shape.

Notwithstanding Russia’s weak position vis a vis the west, It’s Putin who seems to be winning.

Donald Trump’s pardons of soldiers convicted of war crimes sends the wrong message to the military, to our allies, and to the world.

Against the advice of his top military advisers, President Trump has cleared three American soldiers of war crimes, sending a horrible signal to the world and to the troops in the field.

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.

President Trump has reportedly pledged to Chinese President Xi Jinping that the United States would not speak out against Chinese actions in Hong Kong.

It’s been one year since Jamal Khashoggi walked into the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, never to be seen in public again. We are no closer to justice in his case than we were a year ago.

Well that didn’t take long.

As the Saudis continue to evaluate the impact of the weekend attack on a major oil facility, the Trump Administration tones down the anti-Iran rhetoric just a bit.

Prime Minister Netanyahu’s actions toward two Democratic Congresswomen,seemingly at the bidding of President Trump, is the latest example of the growing partisan divide over policy toward Israel.

Under the Trump Administration, the American commitment to human rights around the world is basically dead.

The Trump Era is raising doubts about many things, including America’s most important alliance.

Joe Biden delivered his first major foreign policy address of the campaign. It’s not perfect, but it’s better than what we have right now.

Eight months later, the President and his Administration continue to refuse to acknowledge the truth about the murder of Jamal Khashoggi.

As we head toward a potential crisis in the Persian Gulf, the consequences of the President’s lies are coming home to roost.

Four years ago, Donald Trump began his campaign for President. What has followed has been as bad as could have been predicted that day.

Jared Kushner’s long-awaited Middle East peace plan is still awaiting release, but it already appears to be dead on arrival.

President Trump is reportedly planning to pardon several American servicemen convicted of war crimes, an action that would be an insult to everyone who has ever worn an American uniform.

Some 2020 Democratic hopefuls are turning to a surprising source for counsel.

The President’s trade policies stand to benefit a lot of other countries, just not the United States.

While street protests continue, the efforts to get the Venezuelan military to oust President Nicolas Maduro appear to have failed.

The United States agreed to pay North Korea $2 million for “medical treatment” for Otto Warmbier. Did the Trump Administration actually pay the bill? They aren’t saying.

Once again, President Trump proves that in the face of evil he is a coward and a disgrace.

Thanks mostly to it’s complete and enthusiastic embrace of Donald Trump , the Republican Party faces a bleak demographic future.

President Trump responded to the suggestion that the State of the Union be rescheduled by revoking military transportation for a Congressional trip to visit troops in Afghanistan.

In a move that is likely to have political and international consequences, the Ukrainian Orthodox Church has officially severed ties with Moscow.

The President is blaming Democrats for the fact that so many of his Ambassadors have not been confirmed. The truth, of course, is quite the opposite.

The investigation of the murder of Jamal Khashoggi is inching closer to Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman, but it seems unlikely to impact his hold on power.

The dispute over Ukraine between the Russian Orthodox Church and the Orthodox Patriarch is widening and nearing the point of a complete break.

Jamal Khashoggi’s final column includes a message that should resonate far beyond the Arab world it was addressed to.

President Trump is serving as a knowing apologist for a despotic regime.

Donald Trump is a coward and an apologist for evil around the world.

President Trump is choosing money and moral cowardice over human life in his response to the disappearance of Jamal Khashoggi.

The military regime in Myanmar has sentenced two reporters to prison for reporting on the repression of the Rohingya Muslims.

Donald Trump’s vanity-seeking military parade has been postponed amid reports that the estimated cost has increased dramatically.

The NATO Summit is going about as well as can be expected.

Donald Trump said he wishes people would ‘sit up and pay attention’ to him the way they do in North Korea when Kim Jong Un speaks.

President Trump continues to dismiss concerns about Kim Jong Un’s brutality, and to lavish praise on a man who has a considerable amount of blood on his hands.

Celebrations and a deadly day in the Middle East.

The next time you sign a credit card receipt could be the last.

The United States can’t do any good in Syria, but we can do a lot of bad.

Controversies involving Jimmy Kimmel and “The Simpsons” highlight a perennial question.

A woman who was fired after a photograph of her giving the middle finger to President Trump’s motorcade went viral is suing her former employer. She doesn’t have much of a case.

A well-meaning journalist brushes off critiques by experts in the field. He owes it to his readers to keep learning.

Rex Tillerson was an awful Secretary of State who simply had to go, It’s quite possible his successor will be an even greater disaster.

Nine years later, at least one member of the Norwegian Nobel Committee is admitting what seemed at the time a rather obvious fact.

Service members deployed to Algeria, Burundi, Cameroon, Chad, Congo, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Libya, Mali, Niger, Somalia, Sudan, South Sudan, Tunisia, and Uganda qualify.

There won’t be any tanks, but it looks like President Trump will get his military parade.