Outside the Beltway

Cruelty in service of nativist purity.

A clear violation of the laws of war. But do they apply?

The State Department will be pressing our closest allies to control their borders.

“What are they going to do? Say, ‘Gee, we don’t want to stop drugs pouring in?’”

The SOUTHCOM commander has resigned and the Senate is debating, but it won’t matter.

The obvious has been made expllicit.

There are no satisfying answers.

The last survivors want us to remember the horrors of nuclear war.

No. But it won’t matter.

Will the Netanyahu government double down on its weakening of Iran?

Then process gets in the way of efficiency, kill the process.

The postwar era may have ended yesterday.

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.