Outside the Beltway

The Supreme Court justice least concerned with precedent wants to overturn a longstanding one.

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

It’s harder than a looks, especially given the limited size of the problem.

New screening procedures follow a Department-wide stand-down.

Those expecting Bernie Sanders’ agenda are sorely disappointed.

What’s taking him so long?

There’s more than enough opinion journalism.

The longtime public servant has died, aged 100.

Historical precedents fall apart when we’re in a truly unprecedented time.

We’re witnessing something not seen since 1989.

Policy wonks are seeing a refreshing return to the normal order. Some believe that’s a bad thing.

History has been made in more than one way.

What we have here is failure to communicate.

A large, well-trained police force was unprepared for a foreseeable crisis.

It’s finally officially official.

As expected, the Congress has overridden his veto of the NDAA.

The President of the United States is an existential threat to the Republic.

Space Force took a year to decide what to call their uniformed members.

Some square pegs are being forced into some round holes for the sake of inclusion.

My latest for Defense One.

Not another general.

My latest for Defense One.

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

Women in national security circles love this woman.

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

The purge of non-loyalists continues.

A lame duck President has fired his Secretary of Defense and replaced him in probably violation of the law.

Because of course they are.

The venerable military newspaper lives to print another day.

The Supreme Court isn’t taking much of a break this year.

The reporting demonstrates the uncomfortable truth.

Pentagon officials are speaking out about the militarization of police.

The soldier who became a national figure for testifying against President Trump has had enough.

The former NSC staffer who testified against Trump is at a career crossroads.

As the President becomes less popular, there are signs he’s losing support from his co-partisans in Congress.

The President has reportedly invoked the Insurrection Act.

Presidents have appointed loyalists since time immemorial. Has this one gone too far?

We’re passing grim milestones on a daily basis.

A proportional response.

If a global pandemic and economic crisis weren’t enough excitement . . . .

Nobody even agrees on what baselines to use.

Claims by the President and Defense Department about the Iranian response to the Soleimani raid were untrue.

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

Despite Pompeo’s assurances, we are already seeing consequences for the Suleimani killing.

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.

Donald Trump’s pardons of soldiers convicted of war crimes sends the wrong message to the military, to our allies, and to the world.

New revelations punch a big hole in Republican defenses of the President.

The Secretary of the Navy was abruptly dismissed late yesterday in a dispute over the a case involving a SEAL accused of war crimes.