Outside the Beltway

A trailblazer is gone at 90.

After giving a softball interview, he apparently expected one in return.

A precision drone strike on a balcony in Kabul took out a longtime nemesis.

Some light fundraising whilst waiting for mum to die.

An interesting statement from his National Security Advisor.

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

The Rogue Warrior is gone at 81.

The Vietnam War hero and one-term Georgia Senator has died at 79.

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

For years, American troops fought a ‘forever war’ to delay the inevitable. It’s now coming.

There’s more than enough opinion journalism.

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

The man behind the 1998 embassy attacks is dead.

And some notes on Trump’s media exposure.

The President seems to be enjoying a mild rally effect.

An American drone strike has taken out the head of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard, a move likely to significantly increase tensions across the Middle East.

A new report details the extent to which the eighteen-year Afghanistan War has been marked by mistakes, and lies by the government to cover-up the fact that we went to war without a clear understanding of what we were doing.

Questions linger after a shooting leaves three people and the shooter dead in an incident at one of the nation’s largest Naval facilities.

If President Trump expected to get a political bump from the death of the leader of ISIS, he is most likely going to be disappointed.

There’s apparently big news in the fight against ISIS.

Eighteen years after it started, the American public seems to be mostly ignoring the war in Afghanistan. But that isn’t an excuse for not bringing it to an end.

As it has since 2007, the Democratic National Committee is barring Fox News from hosting a debate featuring the party’s candidates for President.

In what has to qualify as one of the most horrifying displays of moral depravity on the international stage, the Trump Administration is saying it doesn’t really care if the Saudi Crown Prince is a murderer or not.

Michelle Obama can’t forgive Donald Trump for his role in spreading the racist birther conspiracy. I can’t say I blame her.

America’s tradition of unlimited free expression increases the danger of violence.

Seventeen years ago, America was thrust into a war that seemingly has no end.

Throughout the War On Terror, John McCain stood out as a strong moral voice against the use of torture against prisoners. For that he deserves the thanks of a grateful nation.

Ronny Jackson did not invent the practice of giving Ambien and Provigil to high-level government workers.

Donald Trump’s dereliction of duty in response to clear evidence of Russian interference in the 2016 election is a staggering and flagrant dereliction of the duties he agreed to take on when he took the Oath Of Office more than a year ago.

The Washington Post exposes another James O’Keefe fraud.

President Trump’s Afghanistan policy sounds awfully familiar, and it’s likely to lead to the same results.

Based on initial reports, Trump’s Afghanistan policy looks a lot like what we’ve seen for the past sixteen years.

In a call to supporters, Hillary Clinton blames her loss on F.B.I. Director James Comey

For now at least, it looks as though last week’s email news is having little impact on the state of the race for President.

One week before the South Carolina Primary, the remaining Republican candidates for President clashed in a headed debate.

As we deal with the fall out from the attacks in Paris and San Bernardino, we need remember the years after September 11th, 2001 and avoid holding an entire religion responsible for the actions of fanatics.

For an Oval Office address delivered on a Sunday night, President Obama’s speech last night sounded more like a statement read from the podium in the press room.

The attack in San Bernardino has seemingly left the Administration’s anti-terror strategy in disarray, so the President is addressing the nation tonight to say, well, something I guess.

The probability that the shootings in San Bernardino were at least inspired by ISIS and/or other Jihadist terror networks is increasing.

Given his rhetoric, it’s fairly clear that Donald Trump is drawing from a poisonous political well. So there’s no point in failing to acknowledge reality.

Donald Trump’s latest tirade has led to another round of speculation as to whether or not he’s ‘gone too far’ and reached the beginning of the end of his campaign. Don’t count on it.

President Obama came to office inheriting the legacy of one unnecessary war, and another that had faded from memory. He will leave office with Iraq and Syria in crisis, Europe uneasy, Yemen and Libya unstable breeding grounds for terrorism, and China doing whatever it is they’re doing.

Who knew terrorists had an H.R. Department?

Seymour Hersh is out with a conspiracy theory about the death of Osama bin Laden that just doesn’t make sense.

Hackers who have divulged embarrassing secrets from deep within Sony Pictures are now threatening violence if a film about a plot to kill Kim Jong Un is released.

The Justice Department won’t force James Risen to testify in a legal investigation, but faces a new choice in a different case.

A dark and regrettable time in American history is finally seeing the light of day.