Outside the Beltway

President Trump’s decision to withdraw from the Paris Climate Accords was neither the big win his supporters claim nor the disaster his critics fear.

Reports indicate that President Trump is preparing to fulfill a campaign promise and withdraw the U.S. from the accord on climate change reached in Paris in 2015.

The reality of global climate change made itself evident again in 2016.

Big news in the war against a horrible virus.

Donald Trump says he will ‘leave his business,’ but is providing very few details and continuing to leave the impression that he will enter office with more conflicts of interest than any previous President in American history.

As America prepares for a Presidential transition, an old conflict with a history of turning dangerous rears its head.

The incoming president’s business interests are a yuuuge problem.

A Trump surrogate warns of a “taco truck on every corner” if Trump loses. That sounds like more of a promise than a threat if you ask me.

A third major terrorist attack inside of a week.

A third major ISIS-inspired or planned attack in three weeks.

The business of the media is business. Business is not good.

The World Health Organization has declared the Ebola Outbreak that began in 2014 to be officially over.

We will have a two party system for the foreseeable future.

Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl will face a Court Martial for the circumstances that led to his being capture and held captive by the Taliban for five years.

Representatives from 195 nations reached an agreement supposedly devoted to addressing global climate change, but it’s really more hype than anything else.

Mexicans are more likely to be returning home than migrating to the United States, a new report finds.

Even the people hired to advice Ben Carson on foreign policy seem to recognize that he is clueless on the subject, and has no apparent desire to educate himself.

In the wake of the attacks in Paris, some people have argued that American solidarity with France, in contrast to seeming disregard for tragedy elsewhere, is something we should feel bad about. That argument is ridiculous.

Reports of at least up to sixty dead, a hostage situation, and attacks at multiple locations in Paris.

A true legend has passed.

President Obama now has enough votes in the Senate, and probably the House, to ensure that Congress cannot block the nuclear deal with Iran.

It will never actually happen, of course, but some of Donald Trump’s fellow candidates for President have been eager to endorse his idea to abolish birthright citizenship.

Contrary to what Donald Trump claims, immigrants are less likely to commit crime than others.

Pope Francis’s new encyclical isn’t exactly being received positively by American conservatives, because they seem to be missing the point.

Congressman Darrell Issa says that America’s poor are generally better off than the poor in the rest of the world. While he’s correct, he’s also incredibly tone deaf.

The sources of new immigrants to the United States are changing, but it’s unclear if that will have any impact on the political debate over immigration reform.

While the issue of income inequality is quite real, Oxfam’s numbers are not.

The price of oil is continuing to fall, but it won’t last forever.

Some are criticizing the President for not going to Paris for yesterday’s rally.

Russia’s own government is projecting that its economy will slip into recession next year. How that will impact Putin’s current belligerence remains to be seen.

Vladimir Putin’s reception at the G-20 Summit in Australia has been less than warm thanks to recent events in Ukraine.

Quietly, oil prices have been falling for months now. That’s potentially a very big deal.

America’s “Patient Zero” doesn’t appear to have spread Ebola very far, but continued vigilance is called for. And, we need to focus on the part of the world where there really is an Ebola Crisis.

Trending on Twitter this morning is a collection of infographics compiled by Ezra Klein under the heading “22 maps and charts that will surprise you.”

Before leaving office, Hamid Karzai is once again biting that hand that has fed him for the past decade.

A glimmer of hope in Gaza is quickly snuffed out.

George Will has come under criticism for pointing out what seems to be an undeniable fact.

A piece at Foreign Policy provides a chance to give some thought to institutions.

More than any other language, English words are being adopted, and transformed, by other languages.

The First World War played an intriguing role in the birth of the radical Islam we are dealing with today.

The EPA’s new carbon rules leave much to be desired.