Outside the Beltway

Sanctions are already taking a toll. But the West could do more if it had the will.

Putin’s forces are in Kyiv.

The first shoe has dropped.

Notwithstanding Russia’s weak position vis a vis the west, It’s Putin who seems to be winning.

Yesterday’s testimony by Lt. Colonel Alexander Vindman including information particularly damaging to the President and his defenses to the charges against him in the Ukraine matter.

The first round of polls after last week’s debate has good news for the former Vice-President.

More information released last night confirmed the extent to which the United States was linking progress on its relationship with Ukraine to an investigation of Joe Biden and his son.

An empty column with a seed of one good point buried in a bunch of nothing.

Workers at a petrochemical plant were told they could choose between showing up for a Presidential speech and not getting paid.

Some mysteries on the fourth rock from the Sun.

Not surprisingly, the President’s opening speech of the 2020 campaign was filed with lies.

China has retaliated for the tariffs that the President imposed late last week, and things look like they’re only going to get worse.

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.

President Trump and the President of the European Commission announced an agreement late yesterday on trade issues, but it’s long on promises and short on results.

The NATO Summit is going about as well as can be expected.

The Trump Administration’s effort to impose sanctions against North Korea suffered a significant defeat in the United Nations Security Council.

A race for the Virginia House of Delegates straight out of a civics book.

President Trump’s decision to withdraw from the Paris Climate Accords was neither the big win his supporters claim nor the disaster his critics fear.

Canada is phasing out coal as a source of electricity production by 2030. The same thing will happen in the United States no matter how much politicians try to stop it.

A new report concludes that Malaysia Air Flight 17 was brought down by a missile brought into Ukraine from Russia.

Remember Peak Oil? Whatever happened to that idea?

Turkey has issued a formal apology to Russia over the November 2015 downing of a Russian jet that had briefly strayed into Turkish airspace.

Thanks largely to the fact that she has moved left on coal, Hillary Clinton seems likely to lose today’s West Virginia primary. But it will have only a minimal impact on Clinton’s quest for a delegate majority.

The economy performed a little better than previously reported over the summer. It’s not great, but it’s probably enough to convince the Federal Reserve to raise interest rates next month.

The events of the past two weeks could allow the Republican Party to move forward.