Outside the Beltway

We are about to find out the degree to which trade wars are good and easy to win.

America is getting screwed by playing by the rules it created.

Insights into Trump’s worldview.

The postwar era may have ended yesterday.

But a centrist grand coalition will likely govern.

The data are clear (and the predictions were correct).

Stupid is as stupid does.

His party got destroyed in EU elections, so he’s doubling down.

The Russian autocrat is emboldened.

Eye-rolling moral equivalence that will lessen respect for international law.

There is no obvious better state of the peace acceptable to both parties.

War crime does pay.

Anticompetitive practices in one of the most competitive of markets.

A long-predicted threat has emerged.

The inevitable has happened.

Steamboat Willie is about to be ripe for exploitation.

The trend toward hard-right parties continues.

It’s . . . complicated.

An idea, not a continent.

Will taking the war to Moscow change Putin’s calculus?

Germany’s economy is among the worst in the OECD.

The trend shows no sign of abating.

The Eurozone is falling further behind the United States.

Finally, a rationale that makes sense.

How far should the government be able to go?

Well, that de-escalated quickly.

Protests against the governing party signal tensions in advance of fall elections.

Things finally got too weird for his benefactor.

Many in the Global South see the war very differently than we in the West.

“Cooking with gas” could become a thing of the past. But it probably won’t.

The Biden Administration wants clean energy but only for some.

James LaPorta is being scapegoated for poor editorial process.

The company is begrudgingly complying with the EU’s requirement.

The CIA warned of his months ago but the Biden administration is being cautious.

Democratic backsliding appears to be spreading to another European country.

The UK’s longest-reigning monarch has passed, aged 96.

After decades of exporting American jobs, corporations are bringing them home.

Making ourselves cooler is making the earth warmer.

The incumbent should win easily but turnout is low and the consequences dire.

Brussels has gotten ahead of Washington in regulating mostly American-based Internet companies.

Western powers may be at odds with the people doing the fighting and dying.

The only way to save our freedom is to destroy it.

The invasion has led to a series of proxy wars.

The BBC checks the facts.

Vladimir Putin is banning commodity exports.

It’s hard to see how this crisis ends.

Actions deemed unthinkable days earlier are suddenly mandatory.

The ferocity of the global reaction to Putin’s invasion is stunning.

The American President is once again leading the free world.

Sanctions are already taking a toll. But the West could do more if it had the will.