Outside the Beltway

One of the last survivors of Israel’s founding generation has passed away.

President Obama will leave office as the first two term President who presided over eight years of war. It didn’t start with him and it won’t end with him.

A horrific night in Dallas.

A man who survived great horrors to become a tireless witness for truth and advocate for human rights has passed away.

The eighth Democratic debate raises the question of whether we really need this many debates.

All of which leads to a discussion of electoral rules.

The news that at least some of the men who were involved in the terrorist attacks in Paris were among the refugees who have arrived in Europe since the summer is likely to complicate an already complicated situation.

The final effort to block the Iran Nuclear Deal failed in the Senate yesterday, meaning that the deal will now move forward.

With the exception of Rand Paul, the foreign policy discussion at last night’s debate was about as bad as you’d expect.

In what seems to be a clear signal to Russia, the U.S. is considering pre-positioning military equipment in nation’s very close to Russian borders.

After months of “not running,” Jeb Bush will formally enter the Presidential race on June 15th.

With major theater chains having pulled out, Sony bowed to the inevitable, but now there appears to be proof that a foreign power is behind the Sony hacking attacks and threats of violence.

Vice-President Cheney’s amoral defense of torture has come to define how most conservatives view the issue, and that’s a problem.

Vladimir Putin’s latest actions seems to have exhausted Germany’s patience.

Mike Huckabee seems to be making the moves necessary to run for President again, For reasons only he can understand.

End game? Or the potential spark of a wider war?

Provocative words from Vice-President Biden. But, are they realistic?

NATO seems intent on sending a signal to Vladmir Putin that there are limits to his patience.

Vladimir Putin seems to be getting a lot of love from cultural conservatives in the United States.

The opponents of the temporary deal reached in Geneva have been making some ridiculous historical analogies.

We spend more per capita than any other country in the world and yet we are outperformed on a key metric, life expectancy, by a large number of countries

Wendy Lower documents the half-million women who helped Hitler carry out the Holocaust.

Washington Post Magazine profiles a local woman with a horrible secret: her father designed and ran Auschwitz.

A bipartisan commission of elder statesmen confirms what we’ve known for years.

The anti-communist icon is once again in hot water for making idiotic comments.

Two years ago, Polish President Lech Kaczynski and 95 others were killed in a plane crash in Russia. A new report has “traces of explosives” in the debris.

Let’s take a trip back in time to see what some conservatives thought 2012 would look like if Barack Obama were elected President.

Mitt Romney’s speech last night was the best he’s ever given, but it’s impact may have been undercut but several odd production decisions that preceded it.

Today’s convention activities will include the opening salvos of an attack on the President’s foreign policy. This strikes me as a mistake.

Romney’s foreign tour didn’t go quite as well as planned, but it’s unclear how much the minor gaffes will actually matter.

Mitt Romney and Barack Obama traded barbs over the June jobs report, but neither one seems to have the answer to our problems.