Outside the Beltway

American troops have been in Afghanistan for seventeen years now, it’s time to bring them all home.

George H.W. Bush,, who served his nation as a warrior, Congressman, Ambassador, Vice-President, and President, has died at the age of 94.

A filing in an unrelated case has apparently revealed the existence of a sealed indictment against Wikileaks founder Julian Assange.

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

Claiming it was because of the weather President Trump chose to skip a visit to a cemetery at the site of one of the bloodiest battles involving Americans in World War One.

In addition to being mandated by the Constitution, birthright citizenship goes to the core of what it means to be an American.

Anti-Semitic violence has increased markedly over the past two years. So has the spread of far-right “anti-Globalist” conspiracy theories. This is not a coincidence.

Angela Merkel announced yesterday that she would step aside as Chancellor at the end of her current term. What that means for the short and long term future of Germany and Europe is unclear.

President Trump’s private phone calls are apparently a major source of intelligence for foreign nations.

The world loses a genuine war hero.

President Trump is preparing to scrap a thirty-year-old treaty that marked the beginning of the end of the Cold War. It would be a foolish mistake.

Donald Trump is a coward and an apologist for evil around the world.

The Saudis have been awful for generations. Why this?

Take one name out of contention as a potential replacement for Nikki Haley at the United Nations.

Is political satire even possible in the age of Trump?

President Trump’s second speech to the General Assembly of the United Nations wasn’t much better than the first, but it it did get the world laughing at us.

A quick hit and run post to provide a proper definition.

Donald Trump’s trade war is helping China expand its diplomatic influence.

The military regime in Myanmar has sentenced two reporters to prison for reporting on the repression of the Rohingya Muslims.

President Trump is alienating our allies and making friends with dictators, and the world is responding as you might expect they would.

One year after Charlottesville, it’s clear that President Trump still doesn’t understand what happened there, or that he just doesn’t care.

The Trump Administration has taken the latest step in a process that began in May with the withdrawal from the JCPOA. Where it takes us is anybody’s guess, but the probability of something going wrong is quite high.

A powerful political network is distancing itself from the Trump-dominated Republican Party.

President Trump and the President of the European Commission announced an agreement late yesterday on trade issues, but it’s long on promises and short on results.

The 95-year-old elder statesman is slowly shedding his public reticence at the risk of the access on which he has built his fortune.

The NATO Summit is going about as well as can be expected.

On the eve of the NATO Summit, President Trump continues to engage in tactics that seem to serve no purpose other than to undermine America’s most important and successful alliance.

The ill-advised move is sure to raise costs for businesses and consumers and roil global stock markets.

The right-wing government in Warsaw has purged more than one-third of the members of the Polish Supreme Court in a crackdown on political opponents.

Donald Trump continues to do something that Russian and Soviet leaders likely only thought possible in their wildest dreams, drive a wedge between the United States and its NATO allies.

The Polish Government has amended a controversial law that sought to punish people for discussing the role that some Poles played in the Holocaust.

President Trump reportedly trashed the NATO alliance in conversations at the G-7 Summit, something that should make Russian President Vladimir Putin quite happy.

The Presidents of the United States and Russia will meet next month and there’s reason to worry about what Trump might give away.

Was one of the pioneering African-American entertainers a “house Negro”?

The Vietnam memorial helped heal a gaping wound. What purpose will this one serve?

Madison was right about politicians and ambition. He just didn’t see the how it would all play out.

Trump spent much of Tuesday praising a dictator who has murdered and imprisoned millions of people. Then he returned to attacking the democratically elected leader of one of our closest allies.

Thanks to Donald Trump, the happiest man in the world right now is Vladimir Putin.

European alliance and Russian goals edition.

Hurricane Trump hit the G-7 this weekend, and the damage it left behind will take years to clean up.

Dan Coates, the Director of National Intelligence, has issued a strong warning that has received little attention.

Anthony Bourdain was a renowned chef, writer, television host, and storyteller. He also suffered from demons that ultimately caught up with him.

As he headed to the G-7 Summit, President Trump threw our ostensible allies another curve.

The actions of the Trump administration are helping Russian-EU relations (to the detriment of the US).

The arguments in favor of a permanent U.S./NATO base in Poland are not very convincing.

The new American Ambassador to Germany is making what clearly seem to be inappropriate statements about domestic politics in Europe.

According to reports, President Trump is preparing to go to war against luxury German cars.

Donald Trump may or may not be racist himself, but he has most certainly exploited and helped widen racial divisions ever since bursting on the political scene in 2015.

President Trump is setting off another trade war, this time with some of America’s closest and most important allies.

Poland makes the U.S. and NATO an offer they might want to consider refusing.