Outside the Beltway

A trip through comparative democratic reform.

The abaya is now banned as well.

Yet more leaked intelligence gives a gloomy forecast.

Our Pacific territories are giving more than they’re getting.

The Eurozone is falling further behind the United States.

Membership is stalled by more support is coming.

The rioting never seems to stop.

The Biden Administration is pushing for a half measure.

We’re in uncharted waters.

He’s turned Russia from a G-8 member to an international pariah.

Debt-trap diplomacy has finally come home to roost.

The process is much more stage managed than advertised.

France shines new light on an old problem.

We’re falling further behind for many reasons.

Alliance leaders have significantly different priorities regarding the conflict.

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

The appetite for more resources approaches infinity.

An object lesson on the challenges of alliance politics.

The Robespierres in the House of Representatives are driving American politics in a predictably horrible direction.

The soccer legend has passed at 82.

A legal but unsavory solution to a problem.

We charge patients way more than other counties.

Washington has imposed a contract that workers rejected.

The times they are a changing.

Traffic deaths are going down in most of the world. Not here.