Outside the Beltway

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.

The first shoe has dropped.

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

Expert opinion on the standoff differs sharply.

Russia’s leader sees the situation in the former Soviet Republic quite differently than the West.

Yet another COVID-19 strain has emerged.

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

A major first step to solving a longstanding global issue.

For now, at least, it can shift millions of its earnings to Luxembourg.

Mostly about how not to do it.

At least 50 million doses of the AstraZeneca are sitting in American facilities unused.

It’s time to up our protection game.

Europe has the disease under control while it’s still spreading like wildfire here.

…and confusion (and a further market tumble) ensues.

As if the country needed more turmoil.

Is being ruled by the elderly a bad thing?

President Erdogan is playing a dangerous game.

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

Boris Johnson’s Brexit Plan scored a big win in Parliament, which makes a January 31st Brexit essentially inevitable.

What lessons are there for the United States in general, and Democrats in particular, in last weeks British election?

Boris Johnson and the British Conservative Party scored a huge win in yesterday’s General Election, while Labour walked away with its biggest defeat in a generation.

British voters are voting today in the third election in four years. This time, the fate of Brexit is on the ballot.

After a hearing that largely recapped the past month of hearings on Capitol Hill, the House Judiciary Committee is set to unveil Articles of Impeachment today.

With just days to go before the election, Boris Johnson’s Conservative Party appears headed for a win that should allow him to finish Brexit.

Yesterday’s hearing before the House Judiciary Committee did a good job of explaining how the facts of the Ukraine scandal meet the Constitution’s definition of impeachable offenses.

If the United Kingdom does go through with Brexit, it could lead to an existential crisis for the United Kingdom itself.

Boris Johnson and the Conservative Party are on course for a big win in December 12th’s General Election.

New revelations punch a big hole in Republican defenses of the President.

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.

The fifth Democratic debate brought some candidate clashes, but hardly the no-holds-barred type of event you might expect for this late in the pre-primary process.

As the walls close in, the President is growing more agitated.

Donald Trump’s Ambassador to the European Union provides yet more evidence to support impeachment of the President.

After a long day of hearings, the case against the President is becoming clearer and Republican defenses becoming more absurd.

Today begins another week of impeachment hearings by the House Intelligence Committee. By the time the smoke clears, the ground could have shifted significantly for the President.

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.

As the impeachment proceedings move forward, Democrats are shifting their focus to a specific, and powerful, charge.

There were few fireworks during the first day of public impeachment hearings, but the ground work for a case against the President was laid.

Nigel Farage’s Brexit Party is helping out Boris Johnson’s Tories. Sort of.

In a few short hours, the House Intelligence Committee begins the public phase of its impeachment inquiry.

French President Emmanuel Macron declared that the NATO alliance is suffering brain death due to President Trump’s neglect and lack of leadership.

A key diplomat and close supporter of the President has essentially confirmed the existence of a quid pro quo between Ukrainian aid and negative information about the President’s political opponents.

Brexit seems like it’s inevitable at this point, and that could set in motion a series of events that would mean the end of the United Kingdom.

With the 2019 United Kingdom General Election campaign just starting, Boris Johnson and the Tories look to be in strong shape. However, anything can happen in the next six weeks.

The proof of a quid pro quo is coming from inside the President’s own Administration.

Brits will head to the polls for the fourth time in four years with the future of Brexit on the ballot.

Yesterday’s testimony by Lt. Colonel Alexander Vindman including information particularly damaging to the President and his defenses to the charges against him in the Ukraine matter.

With just days to go before the end of the month, the European Union has agreed to another Brexit extension. Before we get there, though, thee’s likely to be another General Election.