Outside the Beltway

The ex-athlete has picked a bizarre target.

It burns.

This time on Venezuela

Thirty years ago, when the veterans of D-Day were still relatively young and still largely with us, President Reagan delivered one of the finest speeches of his Presidency.

Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin punted once again on the question of replacing Andrew Jackson on the $20 bill, making clear that any change that does occur won’t happen until after Donald Trump is out of office.

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

The President’s trade policies stand to benefit a lot of other countries, just not the United States.

Que Sera, Sera

With his attempt to overthrow the government clearly a failure, Juan Guaidó is back to calling for foreign military intervention in Venezuela.

His passing is a sad reminder of another era of the Republican Party.

A major, destructive fire hits one of the most historic churches in the world.

Princeton historian Sean Wilentz lays to rest a pernicious idea propagated by . . . Princeton historian Sean Wilentz.

The peril of not yet running for President include not yet having a campaign staff in place.

I was wr-r-r-r-r-ong.

US policy is creating nonconstructive confrontation.

It turns out, The Duke wasn’t all that woke.

Protests that have killed four and injured hundreds have been rewarded and show no sign of ending.

Election Day 2018 saw Republican representation in the New Jersey Congressional Delegation nearly entirely decimated.

Last week, the Mexican Supreme Court pushed that country further down the road toward legalization of marijuana for all purposes.

Not one war, but five.

In another sign of the rapid secularization taking place in that country, Irish voters last weekend voted to rescind the nation’s centuries-old, albeit not recently enforced, law against blasphemy.

Marijuana is now legal in Canada, and many people are watching the country to see how it adjusts to this change.

One of the people most responsible for the personal computer revolution has passed away at the far-too-young age of 65.

By popular demand . . .

Six siblings of Arizona Congressman Paul Gosar are starring in political ads against him. This is just another unfortunate example of the extent to which our political culture has been ruined by hyperpartisan polarization.

Delaware Democratic Senator Tom Carper beat back a challenge from a ‘progressive” challenger in Thursday’s primary.

Venezuela’s President Nicolás Maduro survived an apparent, albeit amateurish, assassination attempt yesterday in what could be a sign of underlying instability in Venezuela.

Madison was right about politicians and ambition. He just didn’t see the how it would all play out.

The plan to put Harriet Tubman on the $20 bill appears to be running up against President Trump’s bizarre affinity for Andrew Jackson.

In what seems like an obvious response to the rise of the #MeToo movement and the cultural changes it has brought about, the Miss America pageant is making a major change.

President Trump’s attorneys have put forward a shockingly expansive view of the powers of the President.

Just as they did three years ago when they legalized same-sex marriage, Irish voters turned out in record numbers to repeal the nation’s ban on abortion.

The incident involving Paul Ryan and the House Chaplain has raised some questions.

Cuba has a new President and he isn’t named Castro, but that doesn’t mean we’re going to see significant change in the near future.

The United States can’t do any good in Syria, but we can do a lot of bad.

Nine years later, at least one member of the Norwegian Nobel Committee is admitting what seemed at the time a rather obvious fact.

A series of scandals at Oxfam and other charitable organizations raise troubling questions.

The new Black Panther movie raises a variant of the central question of the superhero genre. [No significant spoilers]

Senator Mark Warner, Vice-Chairman of the Select Committee on Intelligence, says, “We Need Revolution, Not Just Evolution” in Security Clearances.”

Anti-government protests are spreading in Iran.

While the President of the United States continues to create chaos, Xi Jinping consolidates his power in China.

Without mentioning his successor by name, former President Bush delivered a stinging rebuke to Trump and Trumpism.

The Supreme Court appears split on the question of whether or not partisan Gerrymandering is unconstitutional.

The battle over Confederate statues that was resurrected by the violence in Charlottesville is off the front pages, but that doesn’t mean it’s over quite yet.

Donald Trump’s Treasury Secretary won’t commit to putting Harriet Tubman on the $20 bill.

It’s time to stop honoring the symbols of a nation of racist traitors.

Vice-President Pence is advocating the admission of Georgia into NATO. That would be a bad idea.

A Duke history professor uncovers “stealth plan” by “fifth columnists” who are seeking to overthrow democracy in the U.S. for their plutocrat masters.

#RulesMatter

Speaker Ryan’s statement about the GOP being “a 10-year opposition party” is problematic.