Outside the Beltway

Congress is defying the President on Iran, Ukraine, the slush fund, and more.

He’s getting tired of all the winning.

Bigger than Elvis in his prime.

Judges ruled against his Kennedy Center renaming and “anti-weaponization fund” yesterday.

The U.S. hit several targets in Iran as negotiations for a peace deal continue.

The options are not good.

Another one bites the dust.

An epic finale.

An unpopular war and sagging economy are driving down already low ratings.

Winging it is seldom a sound diplomatic strategy.

Even as a lame duck, he still holds domination over the party.

A desperate but plausible gambit made necessary by a flawed system.

Paid for by Never Surrender, Inc.

Yet more gems from the Commander-in-Chief.

Reality show edition.

More than any of his predecessors, we know in real time.

Republicans are winning the gerrymandering wars thus far.

His VP and cabinet were not polled.

A dumb way to choose candidates? Or the dumbest way?

Now what?

Plus: Pete visits the Hill.

It’s their own damn fault.

Fighting autocracy with autocracy.

We’ve switched roles.

We can forgive the raping, graft, election stealing, and warmongering. But this goes too far!

Trump attacks the Pope on Truth Social, You know, as one does.

…love is in the air.

No significant U.S. war aims were achieved.

The Madmen Theory doesn’t work when both sides are using it.

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?