Outside the Beltway

Trump was alternately somnambulant, petulant, stalking, incoherent, and dangerous.

A new report concludes that Malaysia Air Flight 17 was brought down by a missile brought into Ukraine from Russia.

The United States and Russia have reached an agreement to end fighting in Syria, but it seems unlikely to succeed given that it doesn’t involve the parties actually doing the fighting.

North Korea continues to advance its nuclear program but it’s unclear what anyone can do about it.

Donald Trump’s admiration and praise for the dictatorial leader of Russia should be sufficient reason to disqualify him from being President of the United States.

North Korea conducts yet another nuclear weapons test, and it’s unclear what anyone can do to stop them.

Libertarian Party Presidential candidate Gary Johnson doesn’t get much national press attention, and it doesn’t help when he flubs an answer like he did this morning.

Donald Trump’s strange relationship with reality continues to come to light,

Hillary Clinton appears to be doing very well in the wake of the first round of post-convention polls.

Donald Trump suggests Russia engage in espionage to help his Presidential campaign.0

Florida Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman-Schultz is out as head of the Democratic National Committee after the release of a trove of embarrassing emails.

President Obama will leave office as the first two term President who presided over eight years of war. It didn’t start with him and it won’t end with him.

A massive attack hits Istanbul’s airport.

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

By a narrow margin, British voters have chosen to send their nation, themselves, and indeed all of Europe into uncharted waters.

A respected scholar has an interesting suggestion for fighting the Forever War.

Hillary Clinton scored another big win in New York last night, putting her closer to clinching the Democratic nomination, and causing Bernie Sanders’ campaign to make even less sense.

One down. How many more to go?

A treasure trove of documents from a law firm in Panama could prove problematic for a large group of international leaders.

To the surprise of many, Russia’s President announced that Russia would begin winding down its six month old intervention in Syria.

With time running out, the top three candidates for the Republican nomination picked up right where they left off last week.

Can anything restrain the North Koreans besides direct action by China? That’s unclear, but the new round of sanctions pending at the U.N. seem unlikely to accomplish much of anything.

One week before the South Carolina Primary, the remaining Republican candidates for President clashed in a headed debate.

“Tom, can you get me off the hook? For old times’ sake?”

“Can’t do it, Sally.”

Another hopeful step forward, thanks to diplomacy.

The North Koreans claim to have made a major advance in their nuclear weapons program, but there are many reasons to be skeptical.

Last night, SpaceX successfully launched a rocket to the edge of space, deployed cargo, and returned to Earth. A huge and potentially revolutionary accomplishment.

Donald Trump loves the fact that he’s being praised by an autocratic dictator.

Russian President Vladimir Putin had some praise for Donald Trump of all people.

Representatives from 195 nations reached an agreement supposedly devoted to addressing global climate change, but it’s really more hype than anything else.

Some analysts are already suggesting that Russia’s two month old intervention in Syria is becoming a quagmire. That seems to be a premature judgment, but it’s not accomplishing much more than anything the West is doing.

North Korea’s mercurial leader now claims to have thermonuclear weapons, but analysts are saying this is likely braggadocios nonsense.

NATO is extending full membership to the tiny nation of Montenegro, and there doesn’t seem to be a good reason why they’re doing it.

The German Parliament has approved expansion of the nation’s involvement in the campaign against ISIS, but that doesn’t make the current campaign any less incoherent.

The British Parliament has approved expansion of that countries airstrikes into Syria, but it’s unclear just how much of an impact that will have on the ground.

France’s President has spent the week trying to forge and agreement on an anti-ISIS policy, but the two nations that matter the most also disagree the most.

Tensions between Russia and Turkey remain high in the wake of yesterday’s incident, but there are some signs that things are starting to cool down.

A potentially big complication in an already complicated situation.

John Kasich wants the United States Government to create an agency to spread ‘so-called ‘Judeo-Christian values.’

Even the people hired to advice Ben Carson on foreign policy seem to recognize that he is clueless on the subject, and has no apparent desire to educate himself.

Sarah Palin To The ‘Lamestream Media’: Never Mind

Confirming speculation that had already been all but confirmed, we now know that it was a bomb that brought down a Russian passenger jet on October 31st.

In the wake of the attacks in Paris, there’s a strong impulse to do “something,” but that doesn’t mean we should do something utterly foolish. And a no-fly zone would be utterly foolish.

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

Republicans haven’t really moved beyond the legacy of George W. Bush’s failed Administration as much as they’d like to think, but it doesn’t seem to be hurting them very much.