Outside the Beltway

Britain’s Labour Party has taken a hard tilt left with the election of Jeremy Corbyn as leader.

It’s easy to see what Greece thinks it still needs Europe, it’s more of puzzle why Europe thinks it needs to hang on to Greece.

Greece reached a new deal with European bankers that seems oddly similar to the one that voters rejected just a week ago.

In the past month, the Chinese stock market has lost more than 1/3 of its value.

Greek voters rejected the latest bailout package, but that only seems likely to make things even worse for them.

The June Jobs Report was okay, but it certainly doesn’t inspire much confidence.

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.

The Greek Government is basically shutting the banking system down tomorrow as negotiations over its debt problems continue.

A plan to distribute migrants from the conflicts in the Middle East and North Africa across the entire European Union seems destined to cause political conflict.

Unlike most world leaders, Pope Francis is wiling to call a genocide a genocide.

Do the nonprofit’s foreign donors create a conflict of interest?

If recent polling is to be believed, the bid for Scottish independence is going to go down in flames.

What the West does in response to Russia’s actions in Ukraine is largely up to Europe, not the United States.

How long should we expect people to work?

The Supreme Court declined to review a lower court ruling that public school graduations in churches are unconstitutional.

Far right parties are succeeding in Europe because the mainstream parties aren’t offering an alternative.

Looking back at the first round and forward to the second.

Parties described as “far right” or “extreme right” have done very well in Europe’s most recent elections.

The Supreme Court, subject to revision.

The European far right has found a friend in an unlikely place.

The Supreme Court has again ruled that prayers that open legislative sessions are not unconstitutional.

We spend more per capita than any other country in the world and yet we are outperformed on a key metric, life expectancy, by a large number of countries

Do prayers opening legislative sessions violate the First Amendment? The Supreme Court is set to decide that issue.

The economy of the Euro Zone remains in quiet dire straits, unless you’re lucky enough to live in Germany.

Would you trust the men and women in this building?

One Congressman thinks it would be a good idea to treat journalists as criminals.

The French economy has drifted into recession for the second time in four years.

Large numbers of younger workers are having trouble finding work in many parts of the developed world.

The notion that guns prevent tyranny is based on fantasy and movies, not reality.

I give it a C+/B- (adequate, passing, nothing exceptional).