Outside the Beltway

A podcast recommendation.

Only Nixon has been lower.

Undermining the professionalism of the officer corps.

She’s transitioning to an as-yet unspecified role the private sector.

Nineteen minutes. Zero answers.

Having set the region afire, he’s prepared to let others clean up the mess.

The longest government “shutdown” in history has no end in sight.

The Nick Fuentes phenomenon.

Sounding a barbaric yawp over the streets of the world.

Johnson is acting more as an agent of the president than of the Congress.

There’s still no strategy.

So much winning.

STARTING WITH THE BIGGEST ONE FIRST, naturally.

ICE, ICE baby?

The Art of the Deal in action.

“It takes money to kill bad guys.”

The regime is not a -changin’.

An IR theory that is often misapplied in my view (especially by certain kinds of practitioners).

Other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, how was the play?

Little Marco has come a long way.

Plans are worthless, but planning is everything.

Lethality.

An update from the Commander-in-Chief.

Well, it’s complicated.

But, unfortunately, not exactly gone, either.

What could go wrong?

Now we know why it started when it did.

Are our columnists learning? (I think you know the answer).

Shooting down cheap drones with expensive missiles is problematic in more ways than one.

I’m sure there’s a plan for that.

Breaking news. Big if true.

“Major combat operations” are underway.

USA! USA! USA!

The libs are so owned.

He really likes tariffs.

Enough is never enough.

The case has major implications beyond the taxation issue.

“There’s a lot of commander coming.”

Trump goes full on climate denier on a big stage.

Our current round of speech repression may prove worse than McCarthyism.

Trump’s lack of focus may spare us the worst outcomes in this one instance.

If President Trump sends unwanted military force into American cities, the one thing we should not act is surprised.

There’s a vast difference between someone getting dogpiled on social media and the most powerful man in the world using the machinery of the state to eliminate dissent.

The party that once invoked states’ rights once again turns to the heavy hand of federal power to stamp out any deviation from its own orthodoxy.

A correct but disturbing ruling.

When does Executive overreach become something more?

The House Judiciary Committee is seeking to obtain the material presented to a Federal Grand Jury by former Special Counsel Robert Mueller.

We already know enough to impeach.

Robert Mueller objected to the Attorney General’s characterization of the final report he submitted, reports indicate.

The findings are a dispiriting Rorschach test.