Outside the Beltway

The Russian autocrat is emboldened.

The United States has less press freedom than 54 countries. Or does it?

Yet more evidence the man is unfit to serve as Commander-in-Chief.

The BBC’s security correspondent thinks so.

The West continues to close Moscow off.

Vladimir Putin is banning commodity exports.

Actions deemed unthinkable days earlier are suddenly mandatory.

It might feel good but it has zero impact on Putin.

The first shoe has dropped.

The much-anticipated escalation has happened. Now to see how the United States and its allies respond.

A depressing magazine piece argues it is.

Rather than getting a final vote on his Brexit deal, Prime Minister Boris johnson suffered another defeat.

The State Department has barred American Embassies from flying the Pride Flag during Pride Month as has been the custom for several years.

Last week, the Polish President floated the idea of a permanent U.S. military base in Poland. It’s a bad idea no matter how you look at it.

The arguments in favor of a permanent U.S./NATO base in Poland are not very convincing.

Poland makes the U.S. and NATO an offer they might want to consider refusing.

After a long wait, gays and lesbians in Australia have achieved marriage equality.

Vice-President Pence is advocating the admission of Georgia into NATO. That would be a bad idea.

A controversial retired General has been tapped to be President-Elect Trump’s top White House foreign policy voice.

According to reports, Vice-President Biden is on a Clinton campaign short list for Secretary of State.

In what seems to be a clear signal to Russia, the U.S. is considering pre-positioning military equipment in nation’s very close to Russian borders.

Ben Carson doesn’t seem to know much about foreign policy or history. And he doesn’t belong on anyone’s list of serious Presidential candidates.

Americans have long been lampooned for not speaking a second language. Now our cousins across the Pond are getting it, too.

As everyone anticipated, the Crimean referendum came out in favor of secession from Ukraine and union with Russia. What happens next is another question entirely.

Wendy Lower documents the half-million women who helped Hitler carry out the Holocaust.

Let’s take a trip back in time to see what some conservatives thought 2012 would look like if Barack Obama were elected President.

Not surprisingly, the last man to lead the Soviet Union believes we’d be better off if it still existed.

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán was greeted with protests from some EU parliamentarians when he addressed them as its rotating president of the European Council.