Outside the Beltway

A four-pronged test.

“There’s a lot of commander coming.”

A long and unusual speech has implications for civil-military relations.

Resisting gaslighting must be social. It’s crucial for those who oppose Trump’s falsehoods to remind each other, again and again, that 2 + 2 = 4.

A Congressionally-mandated report finds “reasonable” evidence but acknowledges limitations.

He’s on a winning streak not seen since Stalin.

Sigh.

Damned if they do and damned if they don’t. Sometimes both.

Debt-trap diplomacy has finally come home to roost.

Hubris has set back the cause of science.

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

How much blame did the 70-year constitutional monarch share?

The UK’s longest-reigning monarch has passed, aged 96.

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

Supply chain disruptions are contributing to crisis for 300 million people.

The US has more shots available than willing arms while those in the developing world are dying.

A shadowy flight into the realm of evidence that does not exist.

Looking back to a story from 2018.

A new record, but unfortunately it won’t be recognized.

This year’s Nobel Peace Prize Laureate comes from a part of the world that most people almost never think about.

Michelle Obama can’t forgive Donald Trump for his role in spreading the racist birther conspiracy. I can’t say I blame her.

Kofi Annan, who served as Secretary-General of the United Nations at the dawn of the “War On Terror,” has died at the age of 80.

Service members deployed to Algeria, Burundi, Cameroon, Chad, Congo, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Libya, Mali, Niger, Somalia, Sudan, South Sudan, Tunisia, and Uganda qualify.

Some more interesting post-election commentary from Hillary Clinton.

Donald Trump’s campaign is apparently finally acknowledging reality, although its claim that birtherism originated with the Clinton campaign in 2008 does not comport with the facts.