Outside the Beltway

New inflation and consumer confidence numbers.

No significant U.S. war aims were achieved.

Deportation uber alles.

The Madmen Theory doesn’t work when both sides are using it.

Praise be to Allah, you crazy bastards!

A great thing, precipitated by a questionable thing.

Xenophobia’s cruel wages.

A podcast recommendation.

So much winning.

Better than expected jobs report amid other less positive news.

Undermining the professionalism of the officer corps.

Nineteen minutes. Zero answers.

Having set the region afire, he’s prepared to let others clean up the mess.

Truly unbelievable praise for Dear Leader.

The Nick Fuentes phenomenon.

Sounding a barbaric yawp over the streets of the world.

Johnson is acting more as an agent of the president than of the Congress.

There’s still no strategy.

Thank you for your attention to this matter!

So much winning.

Nothing like a war of choice to send indicators in the wrong direction.

Someone had to report it!

At a time of increased terrorist threat, look who is in charge of key departments.

Maybe talks, but maybe not?

How it started and how it’s going.

STARTING WITH THE BIGGEST ONE FIRST, naturally.

The Art of the Deal in action.

Energy prices are likely to be affected for some time.

Why not both?

“It takes money to kill bad guys.”

That’s not how any of this works.

The regime is not a -changin’.

An IR theory that is often misapplied in my view (especially by certain kinds of practitioners).

Other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, how was the play?

Little Marco has come a long way.

Plus: the Strait of Hormuz.

Plans are worthless, but planning is everything.

Lethality.

An update from the Commander-in-Chief.