Outside the Beltway

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.

At least thirteen dead in an apparent terrorist attack in Spain.

We can not condone vandalism and worse.

On the special election for US Senate in Alabama

Another night of terror 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.

The evidence that President Trump fired James Comey in an effort to quash the Russia investigation continues to mount.

President Trump’s decision to share highly classified information with the Russians is yet another demonstration of his dangerous hubris and incompetence.

Tweets this morning from POTUS seem to confirm the WaPo story about sharing info.

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.

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.

An apparent terror attack outside Parliament in London.

Trump appears to undervaluing existing bureaucracies listening more to hacks and ideologues.

Steve Bannon is in. The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs and Director of National Intelligence are out. Sort of.

Survivors and family members of the Pulse Nightclub attack have filed what amounts to a frivolous lawsuit.

A controversial member of George W. Bush’s foreign policy team is up for a post in Donald Trump’s State Department.

For Donald Trump, it appears that ignorance is bliss.

The United States and Russia have reached an agreement to end fighting in Syria, but it seems unlikely to succeed given that it doesn’t involve the parties actually doing the fighting.

Libertarian Party Presidential candidate Gary Johnson doesn’t get much national press attention, and it doesn’t help when he flubs an answer like he did this morning.

John McCain is bidding for a sixth term in office, with a challenge from the right in tomorrow’s primary and Donald Trump at the top of the ticket in November.

Donald Trump has spent more time recently attacking the news media than anything else. He ought to be condemned for it.

Donald Trump’s strange relationship with reality continues to come to light,

President Obama’s ISIS policy has been far from perfect, but to call him a “Founder” of ISIS is to ignore both history and reality.

My latest for War on the Rocks.

As expected, Hillary Clinton went with the ‘safe’ choice, and has selected Virginia Senator Tim Kaine as her running mate.

Donald Trump started out his campaign by telling us that the American dream is dead, and he returned to those dark and pessimistic themes in his acceptance speech last night.00

Turkey’s government appears to have rebuffed a coup attempt, but questions remains about the stability of the government going forward.

The least likely choice ascends to the Number Two position on the Republican ticket.

A night of terror mars Bastille Day celebrations in France.

President Obama will leave office as the first two term President who presided over eight years of war. It didn’t start with him and it won’t end with him.

American forces will continue to stay in Afghanistan well after Barack Obama leaves office thanks to a new policy announced today.

The wave of Ramadan attacks continues, including a strike near the second holiest site in Islam.

A third major terrorist attack inside of a week.

A third major ISIS-inspired or planned attack in three weeks.

One week after the Brexit vote, both the Conservative and Labour parties find themselves in chaos.

A massive attack hits Istanbul’s airport.

Turkey has issued a formal apology to Russia over the November 2015 downing of a Russian jet that had briefly strayed into Turkish airspace.

Stopping the next Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, Syed Farook, or Omar Mateen is likely to be a lot more difficult than the politicians on either side of the aisle are leading us to believe.

As expected, the Senate rejected four gun control measures introduced in the wake of the attack in Orlando.

A respected scholar has an interesting suggestion for fighting the Forever War.

Should we treat terrorists as trolls?