Outside the Beltway

The fall of the Assad regime is the end of the beginning.

A fifty-year dictatorship has been ousted. What now?

Another setback for Teheran.

Another huge blow against Iranian’s regional strategy.

Peace, for a time.

A general conversation and a lot of specifics about RFK. Jr.

It is too soon to tell.

Of leopards and faces.

Cabinet appointments edition.

First there was the Department of Redundancy Department. Now for something completely different.

No, I am not kidding.

The Congressman and Green Beret colonel will head Trump’s national security team.

The MAGA Congresswoman is Trump’s pick.

It sounds the same in the original Russian.

My concerns about a second Trump administration.

After 29 days . . . a proportionate response.

Has the calculus of either side changed?

Is Sinwar’s assassination an opening?

Another one bites the dust.

They are not like you and me.

They won’t tell you who’s going to be President. They’re still useful.

P. T. Barnum would be proud.

After years of proxy battles, Israel and Iran are on the brink of a direct fight.

Breaking News

US and regional leaders are hoping for a limited operation.

What we know a day later.

The Israeli military says they got their man after years of intelligence collection.

The leading scholar on the subject dissents.

A massive follow-up to the exploding communications devices.

My thoughts on what we know now.

A massive Israeli operation. To what end?

Alan Dershowitz is trying to make up his mind.

Massive numbers are taking to the streets in protest.

Israeli forces recovered their bodies.

It’s not 2019 anymore.

Another step closer to a regional war.

A Republican columnist is angry that Trump, not Harris, is being seen as the incumbent.

Stoking anti-Semitism for political gain

Some thoughts and the chance for you all to discuss.

Or more charitably, forgets due to cognitive decline

A bold strike that threatens to escalate a regional war.

Running for President as Vice President is uniquely challenging.

The fight has now expanded to a third front.

The Gaza conflict has ousted a member of “the Squad.”

The war cabinet is gone. He now owns the war completely.

The moderates are gone.

Joy of four returned safe is mixed with the reality of scores of dead Palestinians.

Our natural instincts in hiring are wrong.

It’s a problematic concept.