Outside the Beltway

A small, conscript-driven military has very different training and doctrine than ours.

The longtime journalist is gone at 100.

A legal but unsavory solution to a problem.

A 34-year CIA officer’s thoughts.

The UK’s longest-reigning monarch has passed, aged 96.

Drug smuggling edition.

Yet another COVID-19 strain has emerged.

A depressing magazine piece argues it is.

The fact-checkers blew this one and blew it big.

It’s time to up our protection game.

The Russians are at it again, with the cooperation of the Trump administration and its enablers.

Two new studies bring more questions than answers.

An interesting albeit dubious selection for Person of the Year.

Trump takes credit for stopping his “friend” Xi from attacking Hong Kong protesters.

Hong Kong voters send a strong message to Beijing, and the world.

After months of anti-government protests, Hong Kong headed to the polls in record number.

Former Utah Governor Jon Huntsman is running to get his old job back.

There’s far more good in technology than bad, but these days we seem to be far more focused on the bad right now.

The National Basketball Association’s kowtowing to China hits American shores.

South Park mocked Chinese censorship so, of course, they were censored in China.

President Trump has reportedly pledged to Chinese President Xi Jinping that the United States would not speak out against Chinese actions in Hong Kong.

A star NBA general manager may lose his job for expressing American values.

Protests in Hong Kong have been going on for nine weeks now, but they are reaching a point where the patience of the leaders in Beijing is being tested.

Under the Trump Administration, the American commitment to human rights around the world is basically dead.

Beijing is warning protesters in Hong Kong that it’s restraint in the face of protests is not without limit. However, it has few realistic options when it comes to how far it can go.

The government in Hong Kong keeps conceding ground to the protests that have taken hold in the city, but the protesters have more fundamental objections.

The ongoing protests in Hong Kong over controversial extradition legislation have taken a violent turn.

If Hong Kong’s leaders thought protesters would be satisfied with relatively minor concessions, they have significantly miscalculated the situation.

In the wake of massive protests, Hong Kong’s government begins to back away from support for a controversial extradition bill.

Protests in Hong Kong as police unleashed tear gas on protesters and authorities delayed a vote on a controversial extradition law.

Protesters flooded the streets of Hong Kong on Sunday over proposed change to the city’s extradition laws.

One of the most well-known architects of the modern era has passed away.

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

Rest in Peace and Excelsior, Stan Lee!

From Europe to the Middle East, to Asia, America’s allies are concerned about what the selection of John Bolton as National Security Adviser means going forward. They should be, and so should every American.

China’s Xi Jinping solidified his hold on power well into the next decade over the weekend.

A mass wave of mainland Chinese immigration to Australia has led to discrimination against Taiwanese expats there.

President Trump continues to make irresponsible and dangerous threats in connection with American policy toward North Korea.

President Trump has announced a new round of sanctions against North Korea, but they are unlikely to work given the unrealistic nature of the Administration’s current policy toward North Korea.

Thanks for nothing, anti-vaxxers.

Donald Trump spent much of the past year touting the rising stock market, now he’s getting a lesson in reality.

The economy grew in the final quarter of 2017, but at a slower pace than earlier in the year and far slower than what the President has promised.

U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley is floating the idea that the U.S. might not take part in the Olympics due to safety concerns. This would be a foolish decision.

Since taking office, President Trump has made an average of 5.5 false claims per day.

While the President of the United States continues to create chaos, Xi Jinping consolidates his power in China.

The North Koreans failed to successfully test a longer-range missile again yesterday, but tensions on the Korean Peninsula seem destined to increase in any case.

North Korea is threatening another nuclear test, the United States is threatening retaliation, and China is warning of a ‘gathering storm’ on the Korean Peninsula.

Defying the odds and the polls, Donald Trump triumphed over Hillary Clinton to become the 45th President of the United States.