Outside the Beltway

The fall of the Assad regime is the end of the beginning.

A dangerous choice that the Senate must reject.

Escalation? Russian desperation?

The Secretary of the Navy supports the man who hired him. Who knew?

A second Trump presidency got much more likely last night.

Some 45 are dead in what Israel calls a “tragic accident.”

There is no obvious better state of the peace acceptable to both parties.

Neither side is willing to give up on its war aims just yet.

A minor gaffe is overshadowing a more complicated story.

A tragedy on multiple levels.

Putin ignored warnings from US intelligence.

Congressional Republicans are reminding voters of a dark hour in the Biden presidency.

“This is not the way it is supposed to go,” indeed.

Israel and Iran’s proxies are on a collision course.

A truly weird story.

The most important and controversial American diplomat of the postwar era is gone at 100.

Tehran-backed forces are routinely shooting at American forces.

America’s involvement in the Israeli and Ukrainian war efforts is more than advertised.

The timing is not auspicious.

A high-stakes move.

The 50th anniversary of the Yom Kippur war sees a re-escalation.

President Biden has ended a months-long impasse.

Normal diplomacy with an abnormal ally.

A wrongheaded if longstanding position.

The Biden administration is slowly ratcheting up the aid package.

A more dangerous world is changing the relationship.

As more details emerge about the documents he stole, defenders are falling away.

Moscow is playing a very strange game.

Normalcy is not a bad thing.

An embarrassing photo demonstrates the perils of leading the free world.

You’re goddamn right he did.

A splendid idea but why stop there?

A trailblazing diplomat has died at 84.

It’s hard to see how this crisis ends.

Two unclassified after-action reports shine a new—if one-sided—light on the evacuation.

A number of GOP politicians criticized Trump over 1/6 and some resigned.

Our ostensibly ally is working with our chief adversary against our interests.

The Biden administration is not doing enough.

Their case is less than persuasive.

While well-intentioned, the Chairman’s actions were illegal and dangerous.

An exceptional choice that breaks the recent tradition of politicos in the post.

Iran’s top nuclear facility is offline again.

We’re witnessing something not seen since 1989.

Women in national security circles love this woman.

The 46th President’s foreign policy team is taking shape.

The soldier who became a national figure for testifying against President Trump has had enough.

The President should have known about the plot. There’s a good chance he didn’t.

The Administration has done nothing about intelligence reports of a grave escalation from Moscow.