Outside the Beltway

Ask a simple question, be surprised at the results.

But the Trump administration is out to wreck it.

We are about to find out the degree to which trade wars are good and easy to win.

The data are clear (and the predictions were correct).

Oligarchy and populism don’t mix.

Trump is like a child with a new toy.

Trump’s core policies will drive inflation

The sitting Vice President isn’t getting blamed for the economy.

Or more charitably, forgets due to cognitive decline

The fine line between xenophobia and patriotism.

The world’s largest democracy just became more democratic.

Voters in Mexico, India, and South Africa are making their voices heard.

Most of the biggest countries in the world have birth rates below replacement level.

A minor gaffe is overshadowing a more complicated story.

While the West dithers, Russia is doubling down.

People around the world are more skeptical about governing institutions.

Spying on customers is expensive.

A long-predicted threat has emerged.

The game of tit-for-tat continues.

Because I think it is really important.

An increasingly undemocratic regional power is a necessary but unreliable partner.

Its economic bubble has burst, which may make them more dangerous.

The push to return to the office comes with domestic consequences.

Vivek Ramaswamy’s national coming out party was, well, interesting.

Well, that de-escalated quickly.

Damned if they do and damned if they don’t. Sometimes both.

Sigh.

A bad idea backed up by worse reasoning.

He’s turned Russia from a G-8 member to an international pariah.

Sanctions and a costly war are taking their toll.

Many in the Global South see the war very differently than we in the West.

A seemingly benign but controversial gesture.

We’re all gonna die, folks.

A real example of American exceptionalism.

A more dangerous world is changing the relationship.

If it hasn’t happened already, it soon will.

The trailblazing television interviewer is gone at 93.

Russia is humiliated but not defeated. Ukraine is winning but at a very high price.

The company is begrudgingly complying with the EU’s requirement.

The 42-year-old billionaire makes history in many ways.

The threat is not idle and the options for responding are not good.

How much blame did the 70-year constitutional monarch share?

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

Supply chain disruptions are contributing to crisis for 300 million people.

Bargaining continues amidst poisoning and mass killing.

We did much better in 2020 and worse since 2021 than we thought.

It’s hard to see how this crisis ends.

There’s no keeping politics out of these Games.

A roundup of reflection on a somber anniversary.