Outside the Beltway

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?

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.