Outside the Beltway

This time: Chinese students.

A massive purge ahead of the long weekend.

A major reshuffling of the foreign policy team 100 days into the administration.

It’s good to be king.

Is the DOGE now on a leash?

It’s still murky but already quite different from the Trump 45 administration’s.

The postwar era may have ended yesterday.

All of 47’s controversial nominees have been confirmed. Save one.

Really, a older, more imperialistic one.

Willingness to lie is now a requirement for senior intelligence and law enforcement posts.

A little ethnic cleansing coming right up.

This would include US citizens.

An entire Congressionally-created agency seems to have been shut down by fiat.

Agencies are quickly seeking to comply with the President’s order.

Normal transition . . . and potential red flags.

Nunes and Grinell.

A general conversation and a lot of specifics about RFK. Jr.

When the abnormal ceases to be.

Of leopards and faces.

There is no such thing as “the perfect candidate.”

Trump’s foreign policy team is taking shape.

Not knowing the results of an election a week later is unacceptable.

Our long national nightmare is not over.

Is it the press’s responsibility to turn nonsense into sense?

On hacks and different treatment for Clinton and Trump.