Outside the Beltway

Joe Biden delivered his first major foreign policy address of the campaign. It’s not perfect, but it’s better than what we have right now.

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.

Not a new observation, but one that should not be forgotten.

The latest in the wars against liberalism.

One photograph that has gone viral is standing as a visualization of the Trump Administration’s inhumane asylum policies.

It burns.

South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg laid out his foreign policy platform in a speech this week. It’s certainly an improvement over the current President.

Recent comments by the U.S. Ambassador to Israel make it clear that the United States cannot be considered a neutral party In the Middle East peace process.

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

Former Vice-President Biden has come under fire for his longtime support for the Hyde Amendment.

A Federal Judge in Washington, D.C. dismissed a lawsuit against Trump “national emergency” to fund the border wall, but his ruling did not reach the merits of the lawsuit’s claim.

A misleading, annoying media trope that needs to go away.

The city by the Bay is rapidly transforming. Should we lament that?

President Trump is reportedly planning to pardon several American servicemen convicted of war crimes, an action that would be an insult to everyone who has ever worn an American uniform.

President Trump’s foreign policy has largely been a failure, and there are specific reasons why.

We segregate men and women in sports for good reason. How we do that is complicated.

Former Vice-President Joe Biden is calling for an end to American support for the Saudi war on Yemen.

The United States agreed to pay North Korea $2 million for “medical treatment” for Otto Warmbier. Did the Trump Administration actually pay the bill? They aren’t saying.

The House of Representatives is asking a Federal Judge to block the President’s emergency declaration to fund his border wall.

The Vermont socialist likes to invent rights that don’t exist.

President Trump has not surprisingly vetoed a Congressional resolution to limit American support for the Saudi war on Yemen. His defense for doing so is utterly absurd.

As many states contemplate restoring voting rights to felons who have completed their sentence, a leading Democrat wants to go further.

The Saudis tortured an American citizen, but the Trump Administration doesn’t care.

He conjures the imperialist past with such comments (and he doesn’t even use the term correctly).

Once again, President Trump proves that in the face of evil he is a coward and a disgrace.

The second summit between President Trump and Kim Jong Un ended early without any kind of agreement, signalling that no real progress has been made in talks between the two countries.

President Trump and Kim Jong Un hold their second summit in Hanoi later this week, but it’s unlikely anything significant will happen.

And if you don’t know, now you know.

US policy is creating nonconstructive confrontation.

The lawsuits against President Trump’s “national emergency” have begun. Except more.

In a rare display of assertiveness in the foreign policy arena, the House voted yesterday to bar U.S. assistance in Saudi Arabia’s genocidal war on Yemen.

It was only a matter of time before Trump’s rhetoric against the press would lead to something violent. Last night in El Paso, it happened.

And a reminder about how little the current POTUS understands.

The President’s second State of the Union began and ended with calls for unity. In between, it was filled with the divisive partisanship that has marked his Presidency.

In a small, but meaningful, step, the Senate has rebuked the Administration’s policies toward the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

In what has to qualify as one of the most horrifying displays of moral depravity on the international stage, the Trump Administration is saying it doesn’t really care if the Saudi Crown Prince is a murderer or not.

The C.I.A. has apparently concluded that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman ordered the murder of Jamal Khashoggi. What will the Trump Administration do about this?

Europe has abandoned centuries-old laws against blasphemy, but the assault on so-called “hate speech” threatens to effectively bring them back.

In another sign of the rapid secularization taking place in that country, Irish voters last weekend voted to rescind the nation’s centuries-old, albeit not recently enforced, law against blasphemy.

The investigation of the murder of Jamal Khashoggi is inching closer to Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman, but it seems unlikely to impact his hold on power.

Jamal Khashoggi’s final column includes a message that should resonate far beyond the Arab world it was addressed to.

Marijuana is now legal in Canada, and many people are watching the country to see how it adjusts to this change.

President Trump is serving as a knowing apologist for a despotic regime.

Saudi Arabia is reportedly developing an explanation for the murder of Jamal Khashoggi that defies credulity.

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

President Trump is choosing money and moral cowardice over human life in his response to the disappearance of Jamal Khashoggi.

American involvement in the genocidal Saudi war on Yemen is getting more complicated. This is a bad idea.

The evidence that Saudi Arabia murdered Washington Post columnist and American Permanent resident Jamal Khashoggi appears to be incontrovertible.

BREAKING NEWS from multiple major news outlets.

Should celebrities use their influence in partisan politics?