Outside the Beltway

This phase seems to be over. [Or maybe not!]

I question the timing.

Is the worst of the idiocy over?

The country’s citizens are enduring power outages while Saudis are making deals for cutting-edge technology.

A passing observation on the attempt to gift Trump a plane.

Deadlnes make deals.

Another setback for Teheran.

Peace, for a time.

Has the calculus of either side changed?

A massive follow-up to the exploding communications devices.

Massive numbers are taking to the streets in protest.

Another step closer to a regional war.

A bold strike that threatens to escalate a regional war.

There is no obvious better state of the peace acceptable to both parties.

A long tradition continues unabated.

The war could be ending soon.

Some Democrats are threatening to sit November out.

Israel and Iran’s proxies are on a collision course.

The popular app is influencing the opinions of its young user base.

Hamas gets rewarded for its crimes.

The war in Israel is in danger of expanding.

A roundup of news and opinon.

The 50th anniversary of the Yom Kippur war sees a re-escalation.

Germany’s economy is among the worst in the OECD.

A brilliant journalist is gone at 44.

Sports fans enjoy watching sports. How much does politics impact that?

An unsavory practice that’s mostly legal.

Candidate quality can matter.

The retired general and think tank president is in hot water.

It’s not clear what has been achieved.

Amid protests over American airstrikes, the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad has become a target.

Lindsey Graham is the latest Senator to make clear that he’s already made up his mind on impeachment.

There’s apparently big news in the fight against ISIS.

So far at least, Elizabeth Warren is not doing a good job of articulating her foreign policy positions. That needs to change if she’s going to be a serious candidate.

Eighteen years after it started, the American public seems to be mostly ignoring the war in Afghanistan. But that isn’t an excuse for not bringing it to an end.

President Trump announced late yesterday that he had called off secret meetings with the Taliban. The fact that they were even going to happen reveals yet again what’s wrong with his foreign policy.

One of the most well-known architects of the modern era has passed away.

Taiwan has become the first nation in Asia to legally recognize same-sex marriage.

The Trump Administration is taking an unnecessarily militaristic approach toward Iran, and that poses real dangers for the country and for the Middle East.

We segregate men and women in sports for good reason. How we do that is complicated.

President Trump personally overrode the objections of security officials, the White House Counsel, and the Chief of Staff to make sure his son-in-law got a security clearance.

Federal prosecutors are investigating the Trump Inaugural Committee, adding to the long list of the President’s legal troubles.

As the Saudis continue to dissemble and put forward an utterly implausible explanation for the death of Jamal Khashoggi, the Trump Administration shows no sign of having a spine.

The investigation of the murder of Jamal Khashoggi is inching closer to Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman, but it seems unlikely to impact his hold on power.

Jamal Khashoggi’s final column includes a message that should resonate far beyond the Arab world it was addressed to.

Saudi Arabia is reportedly developing an explanation for the murder of Jamal Khashoggi that defies credulity.

President Trump is choosing money and moral cowardice over human life in his response to the disappearance of Jamal Khashoggi.

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo delivered a bombastic speech on Iran yesterday that reveals just how empty and dangerous the Trump Administration’s policy toward Iran actually is.