Outside the Beltway

John Bolton was not a good National Security Adviser, but the real problem with Trump Administration foreign policy comes from the man at the top.

At least in official government documents, Japan will return to the tradition Asian style of placing the surname before an individuals given name.

Meanwhile, on the Korean Peninsula…..

We may have the first known case of a crime committed in space.

President Trump continues to have an odd obsession with nuclear weapons.

Once again, President Trump is doing Vladimir Putin’s bidding.

President Trump announced a new round of tariffs on Chinese goods set to take effect on September 1st Another stupid move in a very dumb trade war.

How times have changed, and not for the better.

The Trump Era is raising doubts about many things, including America’s most important alliance.

Joe Biden delivered his first major foreign policy address of the campaign. It’s not perfect, but it’s better than what we have right now.

The 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld a District Court ruling that President Trump cannot block Twitter users from accessing his account.

One of America’s fist celebrity CEO’s has passed away at the age of 94.

Is the United States finally ready to give up on the fantasy that North Korea will surrender its nuclear weapons?

President Trump and North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un met at the Demilitarized Zone for what amounts to their third summit in a year. As with the previous two, there was nothing of substance accomplished.

President Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping have agreed to resume trade talks, but Trump’s ill-advised trade war will continue.

Not content with taking a wrecking ball to America’s trans-Atlantic alliances, the President is attacking our trans-Pacific allies as well.

In a clear defeat for the Trump Administration, the Supreme Court upheld a lower court ruling that the Federal Government could not ask about citizenship on the 2020 Census.

Stephanie Grisham, presently a top aide to First Lady Melania Trump, has been named the new White House Press Secretary and Communications Director.

The Trump Administration unveiled new sanctions against Iran yesterday. They’re unlikely to accomplish the entirely unrealistic goals the President claims to have in mind.

Trump and Iran.

The costs to the American economy of President Trump’s ill-advised trade war continue to add up.

As we head toward a potential crisis in the Persian Gulf, the consequences of the President’s lies are coming home to roost.

While the world is largely focused on the much larger trade war with China, the United States is engaged in a similar battle with a nation that ought to be a natural ally.

Not only are we deploying it more slowly than China and others but we’re doing it in a way that will live behind rural Americans.

This time on Venezuela

Expanding on events that have been going on for months, two oil tankers were attacked today near the entrance to the Persian Gulf

President Trump’s tariffs are having a noticeable, and negative, impact on global economies. The President doesn’t seem to care.

The Trump Administration continues to misstate what the DPRK agreed to regarding its nuclear program. That’s why talks between the two nations are stalled.

While the American media was paying attention to President travels and travails in Europe, there was another meeting taking place.

The GOP Senators standing up against the President’s tariffs on Mexico are being called courageous. I’m wondering what took them so long to stand up.

A misleading, annoying media trope that needs to go away.

His colum in WaPo isn’t very good.

The Navy is confirming that it did receive a request from the White House to keep the USS John McCain “out of sight” during the President’s visit to an American base in Japan.

It’s been just about fifteen months since President Trump imposed tariffs on imported steel and aluminum. Not surprisingly, those tariffs have not had the effect the President claimed they would.

Having exhausted their word list and the competitors, the contest ended with octo-champs.

White House aides asked the Navy to keep the USS John McCain “out of sight” while the President visited a Navy base in Japan earlier this week.

The Democratic frontrunner is being wrongly blamed for an explosion in the prison population.

The DPRK sent a message to the United States over the weekend, but it’s unlikely the President was listening.

President Trump is in Japan, and while there is is dismissing the seriousness of new North Korean missile tests that threaten Japan.

The cost of Trump’s trade policies are well beyond the cost of soy beans.

So good. So easy to win.

President Trump is reportedly planning to pardon several American servicemen convicted of war crimes, an action that would be an insult to everyone who has ever worn an American uniform.

Herman Wouk, best known for works such as The Caine Mutiny, The Winds of War, and War and Remembrance, has died at the age of 103.

Taiwan has become the first nation in Asia to legally recognize same-sex marriage.

The President’s trade policies stand to benefit a lot of other countries, just not the United States.

One of the last of the Navajo Code Talkers, who provided the U.S. military with an unbreakable code in the fight against Japan in World War Two, has died at the age of 97.

The Trump Administration is proposing another round of tariffs on even more Chinese goods.

94-year-old Bill Dawson has a story to tell and is the only one left alive to tell it.

President Trump’s foreign policy has largely been a failure, and there are specific reasons why.

Donald Trump’s tariffs are hurting the American economy, American consumers, and American businesses.