Outside the Beltway

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.

President Trump’s military parade would come with a not insignificant cost.

Of course Donald Trump wants a military parade, it would be consistent with his delusions of grandeur.

President Trump has alienated America’s allies and friends, and they are acting accordingly.

Americans were once largely united in their opinions about Israel and the Israeli/Palestinian conflict. That’s not the case anymore.

Two Republicans spoke out today against the President’s war on the news media, but don’t expect their colleagues to follow suit.

2017 was quite a year. 2018 promises to be just as interesting.

Report that President Trump considered withdrawing the Gorsuch nomination are another sign of his unhealthy obsession with pledges of loyalty from people who have no business giving it to him.

Donald Trump’s foreign policy has been erratic, illogical, and demonstrated a clear disdain for diplomacy.

A foolish, and potentially dangerous, decision by President Trump.

A horrible terror attack in Egypt.

The first in an occasional series.

Foolishly, President Trump is rolling back part of President Obama’s opening to Cuba.

President Trump’s speech on Islam was a change of tone. However, as critics noted, it was short on substance and is unlikely to accomplish anything.

Another day in Court for President Trump’s Muslim ban.

The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals heard argument yesterday in the appeal of an order barring travel from six Muslim countries, and it didn’t appear to go well for the attorneys defending the ban.

Despite American air strikes, ISIS is expanding its power amid the chaos in Libya.

Hawaii is the first state to challenge the Trump Administration’s revised Muslim travel ban.

President Trump has issued a revised ban on travel from six predominantly Muslim nations.

The announcement of a new Muslim travel ban Executive Order has been delayed once again.

As expected, Donald Trump yesterday signed Executive Orders targeting Muslims and refugees.

A movement motivated by hurt and fear turned into a political force eight years ago. Can another follow suit?

A controversial retired General has been tapped to be President-Elect Trump’s top White House foreign policy voice.

One of the last survivors of Israel’s founding generation has passed away.

A true, albeit largely anonymous, hero of humanity has passed away.

An EgyptAir jetliner with 66 on board disappeared from radar just before beginning its decent into Cairo.

A treasure trove of documents from a law firm in Panama could prove problematic for a large group of international leaders.

The godfather of the Responsibility to Protect doctrine has passed.

Get ready for an expansion of the war against ISIS into Libya, because it’s probably not far away.

Some analysts are already suggesting that Russia’s two month old intervention in Syria is becoming a quagmire. That seems to be a premature judgment, but it’s not accomplishing much more than anything the West is doing.

Donald Trump’s plan to exclude Muslims from the United States is provoking condemnation, and confusion, around the world.

For an Oval Office address delivered on a Sunday night, President Obama’s speech last night sounded more like a statement read from the podium in the press room.

The United States and Europe are giving everything the perpetrators of the Paris attacks hoped for.

Confirming speculation that had already been all but confirmed, we now know that it was a bomb that brought down a Russian passenger jet on October 31st.

The news that at least some of the men who were involved in the terrorist attacks in Paris were among the refugees who have arrived in Europe since the summer is likely to complicate an already complicated situation.

The investigation continues, but the consensus seems to be growing that Metrojet 9268 was taken out by a bomb.

America’s much touted international coalition against ISIS is, essentially a Coalition In Name Only.