Outside the Beltway

It beats the alternative but it ain’t for sissies.

The NYT has discovered that Trump is old.

Bret Stephens wants to oust Maduro in Venezuela.

Ramping up the H-1B fees is not a good idea.

The last survivors want us to remember the horrors of nuclear war.

Responding to tragedy with farce.

Is dropping it on Israel the most likely reason?

A 20% reduction would require massive changes in law and approach.

Robert Francis Prevost has been elected to head the Catholic Church

The scholar-statesman best known for coining “soft power” has died at 88.

Whether it’s a good policy will depend almost entirely on execution.

What could possibly go wrong?

We are about to find out the degree to which trade wars are good and easy to win.

America is getting screwed by playing by the rules it created.

Stupid is as stupid does.

A GOP member of Congress on deportations.

The1980s fitness icon is gone at 76.

Most of the biggest countries in the world have birth rates below replacement level.

It’s more than competition but less than war.

A minor gaffe is overshadowing a more complicated story.

Several glimmers of hope from the Ukraine funding bill.

The Western sphere widens.

Some of these have been piling up for a while.

When does humanitarian catastrophe become something more?

A long overdue strengthening of a key alliance.

The sad joke continues.

World opinion and American opinion diverge significantly.

A poll on Israeli support.

When the obvious is controversial.

Because I think it is really important.

What does “complete victory” look like?

Our Pacific territories are giving more than they’re getting.

The Eurozone is falling further behind the United States.

Well, that de-escalated quickly.

Dueling headlines give radically different impressions of the same case.

A bad idea backed up by worse reasoning.

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

Debt-trap diplomacy has finally come home to roost.

We’re falling further behind for many reasons.

Many in the Global South see the war very differently than we in the West.

A post about thinking in a comparative way.

A real example of American exceptionalism.

A more dangerous world is changing the relationship.

A couple of old cartoons feel like they could have been published today.

United States and People’s Republic of China forces are playing a dangerous game.

The elite consensus that free trade would bring them around is gone.

The Biden Administration wants clean energy but only for some.

The times they are a changing.