Outside the Beltway

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.

The new Secretary of State is an improvement over the worst Secretary of State in history.

Americans actings as agents for Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates have been working hard to manipulate the President.

Theresa May’s government has not hit Russian oligarchs nearly as hard as they deserve because the UK benefits from turning a blind eye.

The circumstantial case for corruption by Kushner is growing.

An emerging technology will take “fake news” to a whole new level.

The Trump Administration has acted in a manner to create the impression that there is “no daylight” between the United States and Israel. This is a myth, and pursuing such a goal poses real dangers for America’s national interests.

North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un is extending an olive branch of sorts to South Korea while simultaneously claiming success in achieving a nuclear deterrent.

The ongoing destruction of the Department of State

America has become involved in conflicts around the world, largely without the knowledge of the American people or the consent of their representatives, and it doesn’t appear that’s going to end anytime soon.

Iranian voters have re-elected Hassan Rouhani, a relative moderate whose election in 2013 was largely responsible for the shifts in policy that made the international agreement regarding Iran’s nuclear research program possible.

The background of the United incident, from an aviation law and policy perspective.

An initial setback for the Federal Government in its appeal of the ruling putting President Trump’s Muslim travel ban on hold.

Mitt Romney and Donald Trump became bitter rivals for the soul of the GOP in 2016, but Romney appears to be at the top of Trump’s list for the nation’s top diplomat.

Turkey has issued a formal apology to Russia over the November 2015 downing of a Russian jet that had briefly strayed into Turkish airspace.

Ten American sailors detained by Iranian forces late Tuesday were released early today, something that seems to clearly demonstrate the value of diplomacy.

If you were looking for evidence that the race for the Democratic nomination is basically over, you need look no further than last night’s Democratic Debate.

We are legally, morally, and practically obligated to respond. Let’s not do so stupidly.

America’s much touted international coalition against ISIS is, essentially a Coalition In Name Only.

In the wake of failure that could have been easily foreseen, the Obama Administration is ending a program to train so-called “moderate” Syrian rebels.

FIFA’s President surprised everyone today by resigning, but he’s likely to stay in power for as long as another ten months.

Several of the top representatives of soccer’s governing body have been indicted by a Federal Grand Jury in New York.

The war against ISIS continues to silently escalate, with little input from the people’s representatives in Congress.

While the world pays attention to Syria and Iraq, Yemen is once against lurching into chaos.

President Obama has opened a new front in his “war” against ISIS

A member of FIFA’s inner circle says Qatar won’t be hosting the 2022 World Cup after all.

The General Accounting Office confirmed what seems clear to anyone who can read a statute.

A glimmer of hope in Gaza is quickly snuffed out.

Hopes for a temporary respite in the Gaza conflict faded away today.

Is ISIS’s reach about to exceed its grasp?

The Kentucky Senator and former Vice-President are at the front of a battle that will unfold inside the GOP as we head toward 2016.

Contrary to the oft-repeated slogan, the United States has negotiated with terrorists before. And we will do it again.

The Obama White House rejected Republican criticism of the deal that led to the release of the only American Prisoner Of War from the Afghanistan War.

More problems for the planned 2022 World Cup in Qatar.

Petty politics, or valid concerns?

Market Watch presents this infographic of “the most and least expensive states to live in the U.S.

Nearly six months later, it’s hard to find any good in the July military coup in Egypt.

Was Arafat poisoned? A new report raises some questions, but answers none of them conclusively.

Is U.S. planning against Syria moving beyond just chemical weapons?

Western military action in the Syrian civil war now appears likely.

Al Qaeda may be up to something, so take no chances.

Frustrations with the mercurial leader of Afghanistan may increase the pace of the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan.