Outside the Beltway

Peace, for a time.

Joy of four returned safe is mixed with the reality of scores of dead Palestinians.

A desperate measure for a desperate problem.

The UN body cites violation of the Genocide Convention.

Eye-rolling moral equivalence that will lessen respect for international law.

It’s more than competition but less than war.

The release of a second set of figures has created a lot of hyperbole.

A Congressionally-mandated report finds “reasonable” evidence but acknowledges limitations.

Is Rafah the breaking point?

War crime does pay.

It’s about time.

When does humanitarian catastrophe become something more?

The Netanyahu government has few friends.

Another escalation in the longstanding “shadow war.”

A disturbing report.

The 21st century’s most brutal conflict and the laws of war.

Those seeking to escape the global south are facing resistance from DC to London to Paris.

The inevitable has happened.

World opinion and American opinion diverge significantly.

An extraordinary look into warning civilians about impending attacks.

The laws of armed conflict aren’t designed for this war.

Muddled reporting of a messy situation.

It’s . . . complicated.

What does “complete victory” look like?

A bad idea backed up by worse reasoning.

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

The would-be President is floundering as he tries to position himself.

A wrongheaded if longstanding position.

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

President Biden’s dangerous gambit seems to have succeeded.

Tales of threat assessment and media reactions.

A controversial artillery round is being used effectively against Russian forces.

United States and People’s Republic of China forces are playing a dangerous game.

A brilliant national security leader is gone too soon.

Can the unsustainable be sustained?

Putin provides an example for a Politics 101 class.

It’s much bigger than it appears.

Evidence of mass atrocities across Ukraine continues to mount.

The Russian leader is very unlikely to be hauled before the Hague.

The Russian leader is isolated and under tremendous pressure.

The first shoe has dropped.

The much-anticipated escalation has happened. Now to see how the United States and its allies respond.

Russia’s leader sees the situation in the former Soviet Republic quite differently than the West.

A depressing magazine piece argues it is.

While well-intentioned, the Chairman’s actions were illegal and dangerous.

Stenography is not journalism.

It’s easy if you try.

A 7-2 decision by the highest court in the land is less decisive than the numbers suggest.

President Trump’s threat to attack Iranian cultural sites would most likely constitute a war crime if he actually carried it out.

Reversing decades of policy, the Trump Administration reversed decades of policy on settlements in disputed territory.