Outside the Beltway

An object lesson on the challenges of alliance politics.

Swedish right-wing provocation and Turkish short-sightedness.

The Biden administration is slowly ratcheting up the aid package.

A more dangerous world is changing the relationship.

The Pope Emeritus has died at 95.

A legal but unsavory solution to a problem.

The Biden Administration wants clean energy but only for some.

We charge patients way more than other counties.

Knowing what FNC is likely saying without watching FNC.

Twenty five alleged plotters have been arrested

The times they are a changing.

Sports fans enjoy watching sports. How much does politics impact that?

Because sometimes the comment box is just too small.

Three-and-a-half years and almost 6 million tax dollars have produced nothing.

The collaboration has been even more robust than advertised.

The threat is not idle and the options for responding are not good.

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

Autocrats facing defeat have all kinds of counterproductive, dangerous ideas.

Democratic backsliding appears to be spreading to another European country.

A lot of folks who study democracy have sent an open letter to Congress.

President Biden had a meeting with some historians. The horrors.

The last Soviet leader is gone at 91.

Moscow is playing a very strange game.

The competition is slowly ratcheting up.

Normalcy is not a bad thing.

A proposal by Jamell Bouie

Are we too regulated for our own good?

Donald Trump and friends speak to the NRA.

Hopefully answering a reader question (but probably just making it all worse).

Strapped for cash? Environmentally conscious?

Whether deliberate or another ‘gaffe,’ he’s likely right.

The West continues to close Moscow off.

Stories of note sans write-ups.

We did much better in 2020 and worse since 2021 than we thought.

Mixed messages from the pharmaceutical companies.

Whether dupes or active participants, the damage is real (and points us back to 2016).

Yet another casualty of the Ukraine invasion.

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.

Pundits like Thomas Friedman struggle with premature prognostication.

NATO has stepped up in a pleasantly surprising way to resist the Ukraine invasion.

News and commentary of note.

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

Deterring Russia is a matter of principle.

The military threat is smaller, but the political one is bigger.

Putin’s forces are in Kyiv.