Outside the Beltway

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

Breaking News

The Israeli government has no plan. Its defense minister does.

Another escalation in the longstanding “shadow war.”

A truly weird story.

The inevitable has happened.

A high-stakes move.

The President is trying to change perceptions ahead of the election.

He’s turned Russia from a G-8 member to an international pariah.

President Biden’s dangerous gambit seems to have succeeded.

The threat is not idle and the options for responding are not good.

A precision drone strike on a balcony in Kabul took out a longtime nemesis.

An interesting statement from his National Security Advisor.

Whether deliberate or another ‘gaffe,’ he’s likely right.

Western powers may be at odds with the people doing the fighting and dying.

Western intelligence agencies continue to predict an invasion under absurd pretexts.

The evacuation could soon become a terrorist target.

Some good news in the hacking wars.

Immigration policy is harder than it looks.

Those expecting Bernie Sanders’ agenda are sorely disappointed.

The 46th President’s foreign policy team is taking shape.

Presidents have appointed loyalists since time immemorial. Has this one gone too far?

Donald Trump suggests Russia engage in espionage to help his Presidential campaign.0

Well that took long enough.

A bad day for the Clinton campaign.

The talking points prepared in the immediate aftermath of the Benghazi attack were heavily edited at the request of the State Department.