Outside the Beltway

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.

Sports fans enjoy watching sports. How much does politics impact that?

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

Candidate quality can matter.

When you tax sin, you need more of it.

The competition is slowly ratcheting up.

Cleaning the slate for a new week.

Japan’s longest-serving prime minister was killed at a campaign rally. He was 67.

The Silents and Boomers have been in charge too long.

Are we too regulated for our own good?

We did much better in 2020 and worse since 2021 than we thought.

Can it overcome demographics and decoupling to sustain its current unprecedented growth?

The first shoe has dropped.

Expert opinion on the standoff differs sharply.

You’re a monster, Dr. Grinch, Your heart’s an empty hole.

Counting is not necessarily as straightforward as it may seem.