Outside the Beltway

The bad guys are having a bad week.

Not to mention impotence.

Nunes and Grinell.

Breaking News

No, I am not kidding.

The Congressman and Green Beret colonel will head Trump’s national security team.

Escalation? Russian desperation?

Closing the barn door after the horse has left.

Or more charitably, forgets due to cognitive decline

A long overdue strengthening of a key alliance.

The perils of speaking loudly while carrying a small stick.

A well-intentioned but likely doomed effort.

Stop me if you’ve heard this one . . .

The BBC’s security correspondent thinks so.

The longtime politician and statesman is gone at 75.

Do we have to pick one?

The state Senate has amended the bill considerably.

Another bill doomed to die.

We’re all gonna die, folks.

A more dangerous world is changing the relationship.

The Biden Administration wants clean energy but only for some.

A brilliant national security leader is gone too soon.

Normalcy is not a bad thing.

Foreign policy makes strange bedfellows.

Japan’s longest-serving prime minister was killed at a campaign rally. He was 67.

Ukraine’s leader wants more help than he’s going to get.

It’s hard to see how this crisis ends.

The first shoe has dropped.

A depressing magazine piece argues it is.

A follow-up to yesterday’s analysis.

A blast from the past.

Because Afghanistan and Hurricane Ida weren’t enough for the Biden administration to deal with.

He was both the youngest and oldest man to run the Pentagon.

Or, you know, not.

The 94-year-old legend is finally getting his due.

The media became the story but the President was the news.

His stale jokes about eating dog have drawn fire for years.

Our enemies are getting more brazen and sophisticated in their cyber warfare.

The Russians are at it again, with the cooperation of the Trump administration and its enablers.

Something significant was going to happen to Tulsa. Who could have predicted a genre shift?

Some explosive charges in the former National Security Advisor’s book.

The reports of the the North Korean dictator’s death have been greatly exaggerated.

Some informed speculation.

North Korea’s Supreme Leader, Kim Jong Un, may be seriously ill.

It is hard not to see this as a politically driven move.

President Trump’s threat to attack Iranian cultural sites would most likely constitute a war crime if he actually carried it out.

Policies towards Iran and NK are both a mess.