Outside the Beltway

A shocking development amidst regional turmoil.

The Western sphere widens.

People around the world are more skeptical about governing institutions.

The game of tit-for-tat continues.

Article 99 meets Catch-22.

The most important and controversial American diplomat of the postwar era is gone at 100.

Debt-trap diplomacy has finally come home to roost.

Corruption charges against the former premier have sparked rioting.

We’re all gonna die, folks.

The threat is not idle and the options for responding are not good.

The UK’s longest-reigning monarch has passed, aged 96.

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

Some light fundraising whilst waiting for mum to die.

The retired general and think tank president is in hot water.

The proxy war is working.

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

The Rogue Warrior is gone at 81.

The first modern stand-up comedian has died at 94.

We may be out of Afghanistan but the ‘war on terror’ is likely to continue indefinitely.

I guess you proved your point about great powers picking and choosing their battlefields.

A legendary journalist is gone.

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

The tabs must be cleared.

Four administrations and two decades later, it’s about to be over.

There’s more than enough opinion journalism.

She would hardly be the first running mate who criticized the nominee in a debate.

Looking back to a story from 2018.

As the Saudis continue to evaluate the impact of the weekend attack on a major oil facility, the Trump Administration tones down the anti-Iran rhetoric just a bit.

Just over nine years after retiring from the Supreme Court, former Associate Justice John Paul Stevens has passed away at the age of 99.

As Conservative MP’s continue winnowing down the list of candidates for party leader, Boris Johnson remains the overwhelming leader. However, a surprise challenger may be on his heels.

South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg laid out his foreign policy platform in a speech this week. It’s certainly an improvement over the current President.

President Trump says in a new interview that he would be willing to break the law to get “oppo research” on an opponent.

Thirty years ago, when the veterans of D-Day were still relatively young and still largely with us, President Reagan delivered one of the finest speeches of his Presidency.

John Walker Lindh, the so-called “American Taliban,” has been released from prison but the war in which he was captured goes merrily along.

Evidence is emerging that the Sri Lankan government had advance warning regarding potential terror attacks but failed to act on the information.

A very strange campaign trail gambit from India’s prime minister.

And a link to a worthwhile read.

While the rest of the world looks at other events, tensions are flaring in a long-standing global hot spot.

It is sincerely disturbing that the POTUS has this level of understanding of history and foreign policy.

In his annual message, Kim Jong Un sent a message to President Trump on denuclearization and the future of the Korean Peninsula.

A significant advance for LGBT rights in the world’s most populous democracy.

Yet another sign that the Singapore Summit didn’t really accomplish much of anything.

To the surprise of nobody other than, apparently, the President of the United States, the North Koreans are dragging their feet after getting what they wanted out of the Photo Op Summit in Singapore.

The situation isn’t as awful as portrayed by the AP—but it’s still pretty bad.

America promised immigrants who volunteered to serve in our military a fast track to citizenship. Now, we’re throwing them out.

The supposed promises made at the Singapore Summit don’t appear to be working out in the real world.

South Korea’s President is saying that Kim Jong Un has renewed his supposed commitment to ‘denuclearization,’ but it isn’t at all clear what that means.

An aggressive worldwide vaccination program has brought us to the point where we may soon be able to declare the eradication of Polio. That is a great thing and another argument against the anti-vaxxers.

Not surprisingly, the North Koreans are pushing back against American efforts to force them into a corner on denuclearization.