Outside the Beltway

Two April Fool’s Day orders are no joke. And they’re apparently causing confusion.

They’re not missing and that points to a systemic issue

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

The Russian leader is isolated and under tremendous pressure.

The American President is once again leading the free world.

Putin’s forces are in Kyiv.

Former President Trump routinely broke the law with respect to protecting public records.

How do we know when our government is telling us the truth?

The Biden administration is close to repairing the damage Trump caused.

Expert opinion on the standoff differs sharply.

Is the administration governing like it’s 2009?

Russia may invade Ukraine again. The United States would prefer otherwise.

The Islamic Republic is very close to being able to fuel a single weapon.

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

The collapse is not his doing. But he’s accountable for the poor planning.

The postmortems are well underway.

Fear of Chinese spies led to a bizarre and illegal operation within the Commerce Department.

He has nominated only 304 people out 1,200+ that require Senate confirmation.

Discussing the filibuster.

The project that has been on-again, off-again since 2008 seems to be off for good.

The President used his first speech to Congress as an attempt to unite the country.

It’s undemocratic and we should get rid of it. But doing so isn’t a panacea.

The President has overturned decades of US foreign policy and alienated a NATO ally for, well, reasons.

It doesn’t work like the movies, Senator.

The downfall of Andrew Cuomo shines a light on toxic workplaces and governance styles.

Those expecting Bernie Sanders’ agenda are sorely disappointed.

A way-too-early assessment of how it’s going.

Reflections on the events of 6 January two months later.

Democrats are already jockeying to influence President Biden’s pick should a vacancy arise.

The loaners, the dreamers, and schemes.

Aung San Suu Kyi and her top officials are under house arrest.

We’re witnessing something not seen since 1989.

Biden nominees Janet Yellen, Tony Blinken, and Avril Haines are under scrutiny for their financial disclosures.

Not another general.

When an apolitical process gets politicized.

My latest for Defense One.

Yet another retired general in the post would be a bad idea.

Maybe it’s not going to be Michèle Flournoy after all.

He would be the first Latino and first immigrant in the post.

She’d be America’s first woman intelligence chief.

The iconoclastic journalist is out at the publication he founded.

A Senate GOP report doesn’t find anything new.

A pleasant surprise.

The Republican Party is now the mirror image of the totalitarian propagandists it used to hate.

An appeal to some pretty basic virtues.

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

The reporting demonstrates the uncomfortable truth.

Two rulings greatly expand the ability to evade the law for on Free Exercise grounds.

The Paycheck Protection Program protected some interesting paychecks.