Outside the Beltway

The Saudis tortured an American citizen, but the Trump Administration doesn’t care.

In the end, the reason the Hanoi Summit failed is because the Trump Administration is pursuing an unattainable goal.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is being charged with three charges of corruption even as he faces an election in just over a month.

Instead of merely seeking to block the President’s declaration of an “emergency” at the southern border, Congress should instead significantly amend the National Emergencies Act.

While the rest of the world looks at other events, tensions are flaring in a long-standing global hot spot.

After two years of spitting in their faces, President Trump is finding it hard to get America’s European allies to come to his aid.

And if you don’t know, now you know.

Rather than pulling completely out of Syria the United States will be leaving behind a token force of about 200 troops. This is a mistake.

Following Donald Trump’s lead, the GOP is making clear that its game plan for 2020 is paint all Democrats as ‘socialists, baby killers, and anti-Semites.’

The Trump Administration continues to drive a wedge between the United States and Europe, can it ever be repaired?

In a rare display of assertiveness in the foreign policy arena, the House voted yesterday to bar U.S. assistance in Saudi Arabia’s genocidal war on Yemen.

The arguments against withdrawing American forces from Afghanistan are becoming weaker and weaker.

More than any recent President, Donald Trump displays a tremendous amount ignorance about the world. Even worse is the fact that he seems proud of it.

Having two presidents sounds like a terrible sitcom idea. In reality, the situation is just plain terrible.

Former Senator and Denocratic Presidential candidate Jim Webb is reportedly being considered for Defense Secretary.

Not surprisingly, President Trump significantly accelerated the pace of his lies in 2018.

President Trump has lost another one of his top advisers on the fight against ISIS.

In what clearly appears to be a rebuke of the President, Defense Secretary James Mattis is retiring as Secretary of Defense.

The Trump Administration is reportedly preparing to withdraw the small contingent of American troops from Syria. If it actually happens, this would be a good move.

In a small, but meaningful, step, the Senate has rebuked the Administration’s policies toward the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

Current attempts to take power away from the state executive branch illustrates a lot of what I have been writing about for years.

In what has to qualify as one of the most horrifying displays of moral depravity on the international stage, the Trump Administration is saying it doesn’t really care if the Saudi Crown Prince is a murderer or not.

The C.I.A. has apparently concluded that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman ordered the murder of Jamal Khashoggi. What will the Trump Administration do about this?

Losing the midterms is not going over well with the President.

One hundred years after the end of World War One, the forces that led to it are waking up from a long slumber.

Saudi Arabia’s story about the disappearance and death of Jamal Khashoggi continues to “evolve.”

President Trump is preparing to scrap a thirty-year-old treaty that marked the beginning of the end of the Cold War. It would be a foolish mistake.

The Russians are interfering in our electoral system again, and they’re using our own hyperpartisanship to accomplish their goals.

Jamal Khashoggi’s final column includes a message that should resonate far beyond the Arab world it was addressed to.

President Trump is serving as a knowing apologist for a despotic regime.

Donald Trump is a coward and an apologist for evil around the world.

President Trump is choosing money and moral cowardice over human life in his response to the disappearance of Jamal Khashoggi.

American involvement in the genocidal Saudi war on Yemen is getting more complicated. This is a bad idea.

Fifty years ago, a young college student who would become one of the most influential women in Washington was sexually assaulted by a Senator. She didn’t come forward with her story for more than fifty years, and the reasons why strike close to what we’ve been talking about for three weeks now.

President Trump’s second speech to the General Assembly of the United Nations wasn’t much better than the first, but it it did get the world laughing at us.

Reports about tension between Defense Secretary James Mattis and President Trump are becoming louder, and it’s being suggested that Mattis could be out of office after the midterms.

The Twenty-Fifth Amendment has been in the news a lot lately, but what would it actually take to use it to remove a President from power?

Seventeen years ago, America was thrust into a war that seemingly has no end.

Thankfully, they chose not to help.

President Trump is alienating our allies and making friends with dictators, and the world is responding as you might expect they would.

A top Vatican official is alleging that Pope Francis and Pope Benedict XVI were both aware of previously unknown allegations of sexual abuse and chose to allow them to be covered up rather than bringing them to light.

Through our so-called allies in Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, the United States is helping to destroy Yemen. It’s time for our support for that war to come to an end.

Paul Laxalt, the former Nevada Senator who was one of President Reagan’s closest confidantes outside the White House, has died at 96.

The Trump Administration has taken the latest step in a process that began in May with the withdrawal from the JCPOA. Where it takes us is anybody’s guess, but the probability of something going wrong is quite high.

The Trump Administration continues to insist that North Korea is violating promises that it clearly never made.

Yet another sign that the Singapore Summit didn’t really accomplish much of anything.

The Trump’s Administration’s rhetoric and actions have given the Iranians no reason to trust the United States going forward.

To the surprise of nobody other than, apparently, the President of the United States, the North Koreans are dragging their feet after getting what they wanted out of the Photo Op Summit in Singapore.

The President was up late last night sending an incredibly over-the-top tweet directed at Iran.

We still don’t know what President Trump and Vladimir Putin talked about or agreed to during their two-hour meeting on Monday.