Outside the Beltway

The President has hit a dubious milestone barely two years into his administration.

The Trump Administration’s policies toward Iran aren’t going to work, but that’s because they aren’t supposed to work.

Japan will be getting a new Emperor on May 1st. That means a new calendar and a whole lot of headaches.

The US is reproducing below the replacement rate.

Well, that can’t be good.

Some context for ongoing discussions.

The Trump Administration still doesn’t have realistic goals for its negotiations with North Korea.

In the end, the reason the Hanoi Summit failed is because the Trump Administration is pursuing an unattainable goal.

The second summit between President Trump and Kim Jong Un ended early without any kind of agreement, signalling that no real progress has been made in talks between the two countries.

President Trump and Kim Jong Un hold their second summit in Hanoi later this week, but it’s unlikely anything significant will happen.

The arguments against withdrawing American forces from Afghanistan are becoming weaker and weaker.

The longest-serving member of Congress in American history has passed away at the age of 92.

The date and location of the next summit between President Trump and Kim Jong Un have been set, but it’s hard to see what can really be accomplished.

As threatened late last year, the Trump Administration has withdrawn from the Intermediate=Range Nuclear Forces Treaty. This is a mistake.

President Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un will meet again in February, but it’s hard to see why.

Despite the President’s claims, the American steel industry isn’t doing well at all.

Donald Trump continues to appear to advocate ideas that harm American national interests and benefit Vladimir Putin. Draw your own conclusions as to why.

In his annual message, Kim Jong Un sent a message to President Trump on denuclearization and the future of the Korean Peninsula.

The TPP is about to go into effect without the US.

The Pentagon is being ordered to draw up plans to withdraw roughly one-half of the American forces remaining in Afghanistan. It’s about time.

The North Korean government is making clear what it means when it speaks of denuclearization, and its far different from what the United States means.

American troops have been in Afghanistan for seventeen years now, it’s time to bring them all home.

The European Union has approved the final Brexit deal negotiated with Theresa May’s government, but the final chapter has yet to be written.

The current economic recovery is nearly ten years old. It isn’t going to last forever, though, and that could pose a problem for the GOP in 2020.

A slight variant of the uniform from World War II and Korea is coming to a soldier near you.

One hundred years after the end of World War One, the forces that led to it are waking up from a long slumber.

President Trump’s trade war with China is leading car manufacturers to shift production from the U.S. to China.

The investigation of the murder of Jamal Khashoggi is inching closer to Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman, but it seems unlikely to impact his hold on power.

President Trump is preparing to scrap a thirty-year-old treaty that marked the beginning of the end of the Cold War. It would be a foolish mistake.

After nearly a year, Trump’s trade policies are having their inevitable negative impact inside the United States.

President Trump got his revised version of NAFTA, but Canadians are less positive about the United States than they have been in at least twenty years.

President Trump is once again threatening to lower the tariff hammer on one of America’s most reliable allies and biggest trading partners.

Donald Trump’s trade war is helping China expand its diplomatic influence.

President Trump is set to expand his ill-advised, economically ignorant, trade war with China.

Three months after the Singapore summit, evidence grows that North Korea is still making nuclear weapons.

Lost in all the news about Serena Williams and her arguments with an umpire during last night’s match is the fact that Naomi Osaka represents the face of what appears to be a Japan that is changing for the better.

Recent controversies over rules enforcement have some crying Foul!

A significant advance for LGBT rights in the world’s most populous democracy.

The target is not just on illegal immigrants.

One moment at a campaign rally in October 2008 defines better than anything else what American politics lost when John McCain passed away.

President Trump appears to be ready to expand his ignorant, counterproductive trade war with China.

The Trump Administration is falsely claiming that the North Koreans made commitments at the Singapore Summit that they clearly didn’t agree to.

I have heard Trump supporters offer the following rationale for Trump’s tarris, “It is a bargaining strategy.” Then they sit back and smirk, and tell me, “Trump really wants zero tariffs, but to get these other countries to come to the table he has to get their attention. And once he has softened them up, they’ll be willing to reduce their tariffs.”

The President is apparently getting ready to take yet another ill-advised step in his ill-advised, economically illiterate trade war.

Even if all he gets out of the Helsinki Summit is a handshake and a photograph, Vladimir Putin has already won.

The ill-advised move is sure to raise costs for businesses and consumers and roil global stock markets.

Once touted as an example of his deal-making prowess, Harley-Davidson sent a rebuke to President Trump by announcing it was moving some manufacturing to Europe to counteract the impact of his ongoing trade war.

The Vietnam memorial helped heal a gaping wound. What purpose will this one serve?

President Trump is at the center of controversy again after video emerged of him returning the salute of a North Korean General.

Trump spent much of Tuesday praising a dictator who has murdered and imprisoned millions of people. Then he returned to attacking the democratically elected leader of one of our closest allies.