Outside the Beltway

Just over a year after the United States repudiated the JCPOA, Iran has surpassed a limit on uranium enrichment set by the JCPOA

Realistically, President Trump has very few options when it comes to dealing with Iran and its nuclear program.

Not content with taking a wrecking ball to America’s trans-Atlantic alliances, the President is attacking our trans-Pacific allies as well.

The latest in the wars against liberalism.

Evidence appears to clearly established that Russia used many of the same social media efforts it used in the United States in 2016 to interfere in the recent European Parliament elections.

A possible way forward?

The costs to the American economy of President Trump’s ill-advised trade war continue to add up.

As we head toward a potential crisis in the Persian Gulf, the consequences of the President’s lies are coming home to roost.

Tensions are increasing in the Persian Gulf as the Iran war hawks seem to be winning the battle for the President’s support.

This time on Venezuela

The State Department has barred American Embassies from flying the Pride Flag during Pride Month as has been the custom for several years.

The current economic recovery turns ten years old this month, but it can’t last forever.

Thirty years ago, when the veterans of D-Day were still relatively young and still largely with us, President Reagan delivered one of the finest speeches of his Presidency.

Seventy-five years ago today, American soldiers and our allies undertook an invasion that helped change the world.

While the drumbeat for impeachment of the President continues on the left, political reality suggests caution.

Having exhausted their word list and the competitors, the contest ended with octo-champs.

The transatlantic rejection of elite consensus that began with Brexit continues.

The cost of Trump’s trade policies are well beyond the cost of soy beans.

It’s time to invoke the 25th Amendment, folks.

Herman Wouk, best known for works such as The Caine Mutiny, The Winds of War, and War and Remembrance, has died at the age of 103.

Surprising pollsters and political analysts down under, Australia’s ruling center-right coalition pulled off a big win in Saturday’s election.

Sexual misconduct in the military continues to frustrate observers.

The Trump Administration’s policies toward Iran aren’t going to work, but that’s because they aren’t supposed to work.

The Supreme Court’s conservative majority appears poised to uphold the inclusion of a citizenship question on the 2020 Census.

Steve King, who has recently come under attack for a long history of racist remarks, is facing a strong challenge for the GOP nomination in 2020.

“We have to be careful in balancing big dreams and bold ideas with also recognizing that typically change happens in steps.”

The esteemed biographer on his process.

The legendary figure was in charge of strategic forecasting at the Pentagon for decades.

Some context for ongoing discussions.

Free expression sometimes enables horrible crimes. How does a free society deal with that tension?

It’s been a rough two years under Trump, but America’s institutions are surviving.

After two years of spitting in their faces, President Trump is finding it hard to get America’s European allies to come to his aid.

Steve King isn’t backing down from his history of white supremacy and racism. And he’s also running for re-election.

With just over two months to go until the March 29th deadline, British Prime Minister Theresa May is no closer to a Brexit deal.

The Trump Administration continues to drive a wedge between the United States and Europe, can it ever be repaired?

Two months after being named, Heather Nauert withdrew her name as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations due to a ‘Nannygate’ problem.

Lyndon LaRouche, an eight-time Presidential candidate who ran a cult-like organization that spread bizarre conspiracy theories, has died at 96.

The arguments against withdrawing American forces from Afghanistan are becoming weaker and weaker.

In his business career Donald Trump relied largely on fear and intimidation to get his way on business deals. As President, he’s finding that nobody is afraid of him.

As threatened late last year, the Trump Administration has withdrawn from the Intermediate=Range Nuclear Forces Treaty. This is a mistake.

Having two presidents sounds like a terrible sitcom idea. In reality, the situation is just plain terrible.

Your treasures are your kids’ junk.

The House GOP has moved to rebuke Iowa Congressman for his racist remarks. What took them so long?

Iowa’s Steve King has long expressed anti-immigrant and racist views, now he’s asking why that’s a bad thing.

Before even taking office, Mitt Romney is taking on the President. It’s a good sign, but we’ll see what it leads to.

My mother has passed, aged 75 years.

The Pentagon is being ordered to draw up plans to withdraw roughly one-half of the American forces remaining in Afghanistan. It’s about time.

Europe’s highest Court appeared to hand the United Kingdom a way of escaping Brexit altogether if it chose to go that route. This will greatly complicate the domestic political situation for Theresa May.

President Trump is expected to name a former Fox News host as Ambassador to the United Nations.

Washington said farewell to George H.W. Bush today in a service that both remembered his spirit and his heroism, and stands as a sharp rebuke to what politics has been reduced to in America today.