Outside the Beltway

Cuba has a new President and he isn’t named Castro, but that doesn’t mean we’re going to see significant change in the near future.

The Director of ‘One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest’ and ‘Amadeus,’ both of which won the Academy Award for Best Picture, has died at the age of 86.

Old-fashioned notions of journalistic neutrality are chafing young reporters in the Age of Trump.

Another significant development on the Korean Peninsula.

ESPN the Magazine has broken out the slide rule to rank the top athletes during its first two decades.

Theresa May’s government has not hit Russian oligarchs nearly as hard as they deserve because the UK benefits from turning a blind eye.

Not unexpectedly, Russia has retaliated for Great Britain’s retaliation for Russia’s apparent assassination attempt on British history.

He did what many had thought humanly impossible in running a sub-4 minute mile in 1954 and followed that with a brilliant career in medicine.

The actor best known for his run on M*A*S*H died Saturday after a battle with colon cancer.

South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham says war against North Korea would be worth it. Ignoring the fact that it would result in casualties unlike anything America has seen since the Vietnam War.

With the Winter Olympics over, the next step on the Korean Peninsula is utterly unclear.

President Trump has announced a new round of sanctions against North Korea, but they are unlikely to work given the unrealistic nature of the Administration’s current policy toward North Korea.

To the surprise of nobody, Mitt Romney entered the race to succeed Orrin Hatch in the Senate. He’ll probably win.

Expecting North Korea to agree to diplomatic talks that are aimed at getting rid of their nuclear weapons is asking for the impossible, and ensuring there will be no progress on the diplomatic front for the foreseeable future.

The recent cooling of relations between North and South Korea has led to some talk of eventual reunification, but for many South Koreans that idea is a non-starter.

President Trump is apparently pressuring the President of South Korea to give him the credit for talks between North and South Korea that the United States isn’t involved in at all.

That “Romney for Senate” campaign seems pretty much inevitable.

Some progress on easing tensions between North and South Korea.

Donald Trump’s irrational tweets are once again focused on the leader of North Korea.

North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un is extending an olive branch of sorts to South Korea while simultaneously claiming success in achieving a nuclear deterrent.

U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley is floating the idea that the U.S. might not take part in the Olympics due to safety concerns. This would be a foolish decision.

Russia has been barred from participating in the 2018 Winter Olympics after an investigation uncovered extensive evidence of cheating.

The latest domino to fall in the ongoing wave of sexual harassment and abuse revelations is Matt Lauer.

A strong pick for what is likely to be an important Ambassadorial position in coming years.

Megaprojects are not a partisan thing. Megaprojects are large projects typically costing more than $1 billion and often tens of billions of dollars and impacting the lives of tens of thousands of people if not millions.

Mitt Romney and Donald Trump became bitter rivals for the soul of the GOP in 2016, but Romney appears to be at the top of Trump’s list for the nation’s top diplomat.

On Tuesday night the Establishment won and won yuge. (From new OTB contributor, Michael Bailey)

Another great loss for music in what has been a difficult year.

Despite being much more conveniently located for viewers in the United States, viewership for the just-concluded Olympics were the lowest they’ve been in sixteen years.

Hillary Clinton appears to be doing very well in the wake of the first round of post-convention polls.

Hillary Clinton holds solid leads over Donald Trump in seven battleground states.

Top Republican donors are becoming increasingly concerned that Donald Trump isn’t paying enough attention to raising money for the General Election campaign.

The Greatest Of All Time.

Bill Kristol’s plan to stop Donald Trump involves a long shot independent bid for the White House by someone most Americans have never heard of before.

Concerns about the Zika Virus are leading some doctors to call for the 2016 Summer Olympics to be moved or postponed.

While it did draw 14 million viewers, last night’s CNBC debate had the smallest audience of any Presidential debate so far. That was probably a good thing for CNBC considering how bad the debate was.

Linking view on guns to political self-identity.

Susan Crawford claims that “Cable-Only Presidential Debates are the New Poll Tax.”

The What Is Your Quest? Edition OTB Caption Contest^TM is now over.

The debate is ultimately academic.

Humans have been getting progressively bigger, faster, and stronger. Not so horses.

This is perhaps the silliest idea ever.

The former Olympian has made a transition.

A sad, complicated story.

For those of us old enough to remember, February 22nd, 1980 marked one of the great moments in sports history.

Can ESPN cover sports while partnering with the sports leagues?

Unlike Ray Rice, Adrian Peterson has lost his bid to have his suspension overturned.

Vladimir Putin’s reception at the G-20 Summit in Australia has been less than warm thanks to recent events in Ukraine.

The Ukraine crisis, which never really went away, is back,