Outside the Beltway

Clashes between the US and Chinese navies in the South China Sea have intensified.

It is a fair question. But judging the Trump administration on tax cuts, Gorsuch, and the DJIA is to ignore a lot of profound problems.

There won’t be any tanks, but it looks like President Trump will get his military parade.

China’s Xi Jinping solidified his hold on power well into the next decade over the weekend.

President Trump’s military parade would come with a not insignificant cost.

Of course Donald Trump wants a military parade, it would be consistent with his delusions of grandeur.

President Trump has alienated America’s allies and friends, and they are acting accordingly.

2017 was quite a year. 2018 promises to be just as interesting.

President Trump returns home from an Asian trip that wasn’t exactly impressive.

President Trump’s reaction to the terror attack in Spain included an easily debunked lie about one of America’s most decorated Generals.

Things are getting far more complicated on the Korean Peninsula. Diplomacy isn’t working, and a military option would most likely lead to disaster.

Reports indicate that President Trump is preparing to fulfill a campaign promise and withdraw the U.S. from the accord on climate change reached in Paris in 2015.

Donald Trump seems to have an odd habit of sharing highly classified information with questionable people.

In a closer than normal vote for the position, Rex Tillerson has been confirmed as Secretary of State.

In the end, there was no other logical choice.

Donald Trump appears to be pushing voters from America’s fastest growing minority group into the Democratic camp.

On his trip to Hanoi, President announced the latest sign that the Vietnam War is finally something both nations have manged to put behind them.

North Korea now claims it has miniaturized nuclear warheads sufficienctly so that they can be placed on missiles. They also say they can launch missiles from submarines.

The sources of new immigrants to the United States are changing, but it’s unclear if that will have any impact on the political debate over immigration reform.

Pope Francis continues his world tour and has issued a paradox from his private jet.

Pope Francis has earned a reputation as a liberal in comparison to recent predecessors but he’s no liberal.

Jose Antonio Vargas was brought to the U.S. at the age of 12 and never left. Now, some are suggesting he should be deported as soon as possible.

A piece at Foreign Policy provides a chance to give some thought to institutions.

Recent events in Iraq have opened up old domestic political arguments in the United States.

Pseudoscience and hysteria have damaged public health.

Yet another autiobiography invites public discussion about her accomplishments.

The anti-vaccination movement has earned a dubious achievement, the return of a disease that was effectively eradicated 15 years ago.

Jeremiah Denton, a Vietnam War hero and one-term US Senator from Alabama, has died. He was 89.

Thoughts on the precursors to the events of 72 years ago today.

The notion that guns prevent tyranny is based on fantasy and movies, not reality.

Herman Cain is getting a lot of attention lately, but will he amount to anything?

Michelle Malkin is unhappy about being part of joke on Wait, Wait…Don’t Tell Me.

Japan was rocked by a massive earthquake, which in turned spawned a tsunami.

The last American veteran of a conflict which ended nearly a century ago has died.

Knowing his downfall was imminent, the former Egyptian dictator moved vast wealth out of rich of Western governments.

Hosni Mubarak may hang on to some semblance of power longer than many expected in the middle of last weeks chaos, mostly because there are few other alternatives right now.