Outside the Beltway

Kurds in Iraq voted overwhelmingly for independence in a non-binding referendum, and the result is threatening to create a new conflict in the Middle East.

The Trump Administration has issued a new travel ban to replace the temporary one that expired late last week, but it still suffers from most of the same defects as its initial efforts.

In a marked departure from previous American Presidents, Donald Trump delivered a highly belligerent speech to the U.N. General Assembly.

America’s longest war seems likely to soon turn into America’s never-ending war.

Once again, Congress is abdicating its Constitutional responsibilities.

Arguments advanced by those advocating a bill that would prevent Americans from participating in a boycott of Israel would not violate the First Amendment appear to be without merit.

Trump isn’t going to win any regional popularity awards in LA.

More provocative action from North Korea, and another reminder that there are no easy answers to the problems represented by the Kim regime.

Donald Trump’s Secretary of State is refusing to defend his response to the violence in Charlottesville.

President Trump’s Afghanistan policy sounds awfully familiar, and it’s likely to lead to the same results.

Based on initial reports, Trump’s Afghanistan policy looks a lot like what we’ve seen for the past sixteen years.

The First Amendment protects the rights even of the people who gathered in Charlottesville to promote hatred and violence, However, it does not shield them from the consequences of that speech.

President Trump’s reaction to the terror attack in Spain included an easily debunked lie about one of America’s most decorated Generals.

Things are getting far more complicated on the Korean Peninsula. Diplomacy isn’t working, and a military option would most likely lead to disaster.

Plus some comparisons of Trump/Obama and Trump/Bill Clinton.

A step backward on civil rights from a President who claimed he would be a friend to the LGBT community.

With the Administration’s six-month point approaching, Donald Trump continues to lag in the polls.

Donald Trump is the most unpopular incoming President in more than eighty years.

The Supreme Court has ruled that the Federal Government cannot deny trademark protection because a requested trademark is “disparaging” to a racial or ethnic group.

President Trump took to Twitter again this morning and promptly shot himself in the foot.

Donald Trump’s first overseas trip went about as badly as you’d expect it would.

A legendary statesman has passed.

The Administration suffers another defeat in defense of its effort to ban Muslim immigrants.

A night of carnage and depravity in the United Kingdom.

Iranian voters have re-elected Hassan Rouhani, a relative moderate whose election in 2013 was largely responsible for the shifts in policy that made the international agreement regarding Iran’s nuclear research program possible.

Last week was one of the worst week’s the still-young Trump Administration has faced, and new tracking poll data is starting to reflect that.

America’s longest war is still going on, and President Trump’s advisers want him to continue his predecessor’s policies of continuing to re-expand American forces in a war that has seemingly no end.

A majority of Americans support last week’s airstrikes in Syria but are skeptical of any expansion beyond that.

It’s not at all clear that there is a useful strategy at work here.

Despite American air strikes, ISIS is expanding its power amid the chaos in Libya.

Just about two months into office, Donald Trump’s job approval number are worse than any newly elected President since World War II.

It may well be that the 25th Amendment, not the impeachment clause, will be his undoing.

Two more losses for the Trump Administration.

Rex Tillerson, “the phantom of Foggy Bottom.”

President Trump has issued a revised ban on travel from six predominantly Muslim nations.

The announcement of a new Muslim travel ban Executive Order has been delayed once again.

Budget hawks in the GOP face a showdown with Donald Trump’s spending ambitions this year that will likely decide whether we’ll ever get spending under control.

President Trump has actually made a good pick for National Security Adviser. As with the rest of his foreign policy team, though, the question is if he’ll listen to him.

For seventy-seven minutes yesterday, President Trump held forth in a press conference that confirmed the most dire predictions about what he’d be like as President.

With two votes last night, President Trump’s Cabinet is coming together.

Another judicial slap at the Trump Administration.

Two new polls show that most Americans oppose President Trump’s ban on travel from seven majority Muslim countries, but that most Republicans support it.

An initial setback for the Federal Government in its appeal of the ruling putting President Trump’s Muslim travel ban on hold.

A legal victory, at least for now, for opponents of Donald Trump’s ban on immigration from seven majority Muslim nations.