Outside the Beltway

Or more charitably, forgets due to cognitive decline

The Russian autocrat is emboldened.

A shocking development amidst regional turmoil.

On-campus classes have been suspended and Jewish students told to find safety.

While the West dithers, Russia is doubling down.

A tragedy on multiple levels.

Yet more evidence the man is unfit to serve as Commander-in-Chief.

The trend toward hard-right parties continues.

A roundup of news and opinon.

The trend shows no sign of abating.

The longtime politician and statesman is gone at 75.

Protests against the governing party signal tensions in advance of fall elections.

The city once known as Koenigsberg is now Krolewiec, at least in Polish government documents.

The Pope is siding with evil.

International law enforcement agencies have made hundreds of arrests.

Alliance leaders have significantly different priorities regarding the conflict.

President Biden’s dangerous gambit seems to have succeeded.

An object lesson on the challenges of alliance politics.

A controversial artillery round is being used effectively against Russian forces.

James LaPorta is being scapegoated for poor editorial process.

Do last year’s words belong to last year’s language?

The collaboration has been even more robust than advertised.

They’re hitting civilian targets partly because they can’t hit military ones.

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

The CIA warned of his months ago but the Biden administration is being cautious.

Democratic backsliding appears to be spreading to another European country.

A fascinating report from the WSJ.

We did much better in 2020 and worse since 2021 than we thought.

The President commits a Kinsley gaffe.

Ukraine’s leader wants more help than he’s going to get.

Strikes near the Polish border show the real possibility of escalation.

Vladimir Putin is banning commodity exports.

It’s hard to see how this crisis ends.

Putin’s war of choice has created a humanitarian nightmare.

Actions deemed unthinkable days earlier are suddenly mandatory.

Putin is a monster, but he may also be just as irrational as the rest of us.

The ferocity of the global reaction to Putin’s invasion is stunning.

The American President is once again leading the free world.

NATO has stepped up in a pleasantly surprising way to resist the Ukraine invasion.

Deterring Russia is a matter of principle.

The military threat is smaller, but the political one is bigger.

Putin’s forces are in Kyiv.

The first shoe has dropped.

The much-anticipated escalation has happened. Now to see how the United States and its allies respond.

A depressing magazine piece argues it is.

The Politician’s Syllogism rears its ugly head.

Hungary is part of a broader global trend, but the real issue isn’t Hungary, it is the Americans who praise Hungary.

Even the smartest designers can’t anticipate all the flaws with the rules they write.

Multiple indicators point to a decline in the representativeness of the American system.