Outside the Beltway

What could possibly go wrong?

The US was not exceptional.

The sitting Vice President isn’t getting blamed for the economy.

We’re about to test the limits of existing copyright law.

Its time has passed.

A long overdue strengthening of a key alliance.

Explaining the inexplicable.

A scholarly treatise argues it is not.

A simple typo misdirected millions of emails intended for the US military.

The elite consensus that free trade would bring them around is gone.

Prices are coming down but they’re way higher than they were.

The Energy Department is expected to make a big announcement tomorrow.

What will Zelensky, Putin, and the West settle for?

Manhattan’s new DA seems to think he has a weak case.

Blue and red states alike are ending mask mandates and other restrictions.

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

A vaccinated 75-year-old is as likely to die as an unvaccinated 53-year-old.

A criminal trial is a poor venue for solving society’s problems.

It’s much easier to fund bad information than good.

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.

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

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

Ideas, not tanks.

Whether he knows it or not, Donald Trump is assisting the Russian leader in his goal of undermining the foundational institutions of democracy and freedom.

The latest in the wars against liberalism.

Boris Johnson seems to be the leader in the race to replace Theresa May as Conservative Party leader. Whether that’s a good thing is another question.

Its explanation for why its paywall is coming down 3 days leads us to an obvious question.

One hundred years after the end of World War One, the forces that led to it are waking up from a long slumber.

A really weird detail buried in a New York Times story about President Trump’s efforts to get the Justice to retire.

Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon is hinting she might try to revive a Scottish independence vote in the wake of Brexit. That’s easier said than done.

After eight months in office, the pressures on Chief of Staff John Kelly continue to mount under a President who cannot be controlled and whose behavior will not change.

Old-fashioned notions of journalistic neutrality are chafing young reporters in the Age of Trump.

Donald Trump may be getting ready to act as his own Chief of Staff. That would be a huge mistake.

Steve Bannon may be out of the White House, but his efforts to continue pushing President Trump, and the Republican Party, even further to the populist far-right continues.

Donald Trump’s Secretary of State is refusing to defend his response to the violence in Charlottesville.

Twitter is, in some way, the most vacuous and simplistic of all social media, and it also appears to be the President’s main intellectual outlet.

The reputation of the US matters in global affairs.

Greece’s Prime Minister seemed to give in to some of Europe’s demands today, but bankers are continuing to hold to the strict conditions they set last week.

There’s a better way to finance news than hiding it behind paywalls.

The costs of more than a decade of war are far higher than many ever thought, and we’re still paying the price for the fiscal irresponsibility of the Bush Administration while they were being fought.

A new poll shows that Americans don’t buy into the idea of “American exceptionalism” as much as they used to. That’s a positive development rather than a negative one.

Adding paywalls isn’t stopping the decline of the newspaper industry.

The world’s most prolific blogger is leaving corporate media and opening the tip jar.

Four years after the financial crisis tanked the global economy, bankers still put their interests above those of their customers, even to the extent of skirting the law.