Outside the Beltway

The Thai SEALs have completed an amazing rescue effort with success.

The Presidents of the United States and Russia will meet next month and there’s reason to worry about what Trump might give away.

The North American delegation has won the right to lose a whole lot of money putting on a soccer tournament.

The “caravan” of immigrants that sent the President off the deep end on immigration issues is basically coming to an end.

ESPN the Magazine has broken out the slide rule to rank the top athletes during its first two decades.

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

Americans as a whole are becoming less religious and some people are panicking about it.

Former N.F.L. player, and convicted murderer, Aaron Hernandez suffered from a severe case of C.T.E. at the time of his death according to a post-mortem brain study.

It seems as though 2016 has taken many more celebrities lives than past years.

The situation in the Middle East just potentially became much more complicated.

Athletes are sitting out the Star Spangled Banner to air their grievances. Management is pushing back.

Comments on a pro-Trump (well, sorta) column.

The murder of Jo Cox, MP is looking more and more like a politically motivated assassination, and that’s causing some in Great Britain to look inward.

In case anyone noticed: I got the Trump nomination wrong.

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.

Should we treat terrorists as trolls?

Another late football great has been diagnosed with a brain disease directly connected to the game they played.

A new poll taken in the wake of the Paris attacks finds Americans increasingly fearful of ISIS attacks in the U.S., opposed to the admission of Syrian refugees, and not very confident in President Obama’s ability to deal with the ISIS threat.

Paradoxically, the children of affluent parents are less happy than those of the poor.

French officials have confirmed that Abdelhamid Abaaoud, the man believed to be the plotter of last Friday’s attacks in Paris, was killed in a police raid early Wednesday morning. This doesn’t mean authorities in France or elsewhere in Europe are any less concerned about future attacks, though.

France launched its first attacks against ISIS even as the investigation into Friday’s attacks continues, but it’s not clear that the retaliation really accomplished anything.

France’s President blames ISIS, vows response, as death toll from Paris terror attacks stands at at least 127.