Outside the Beltway

There are 800 or so of them in the United States alone. Where the hell did they come from?

Trump is like a child with a new toy.

J. D. Vance seems to have a cruel sense of humor and issues with women. Weird!

The world’s largest democracy just became more democratic.

Voters in Mexico, India, and South Africa are making their voices heard.

Eye-rolling moral equivalence that will lessen respect for international law.

Administrations are struggling to handle the biggest wave of student protests in generations.

When does humanitarian catastrophe become something more?

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

The BBC’s security correspondent thinks so.

The mainstream media isn’t and shouldn’t become a counterpart to the right-wing infotainment complex.

Its economic bubble has burst, which may make them more dangerous.

Our pacing threat is hiring military veterans with special skills.

Damned if they do and damned if they don’t. Sometimes both.

He’s turned Russia from a G-8 member to an international pariah.

Many in the Global South see the war very differently than we in the West.

Understandable outrage at administrative complicity.

A real example of American exceptionalism.

So proclaims American Greatness.

The UK’s longest-reigning monarch has passed, aged 96.

Many young, progressive Jews are feeling unwelcome in young, progressive circles.

With the government throwing its hands up, it’s now up to the citizenry.

The face of Fox News is not the bow-tied buffoon from his “Crossfire” days.

Let’s not start celebrating just yet.

A pioneering Black actor is gone at 94.

The flurry of news around the new variant is dizzying.

The effective number of parties.

Modern and Pfizer are your best bets, but most of the world has had other vaccines.

Counting is not necessarily as straightforward as it may seem.

Yet another COVID-19 strain has emerged.

Our response to Covid-19 has been exceptional in all the wrong ways.

There’s very little upside.

We are truly exceptional in how we choose the president.

Robert Mugabe led a nation to independence only to become a dictator who destroyed its economy, has died at the age of 95.

Donald Trump isn’t just admiring dictators now, he’s acting like one.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg isn’t very impressed by the proposals made by several liberal politicians lately to increase the size of the Supreme Court to counterbalance the conservative tilt created by the Gorsuch and Kavanaugh confirmations.

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

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

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

Pledges from wealthy men to help rebuild Notre Dame cathedral after a devastating fire is generating backlash.

Despite the obvious connection with the university’s namesake, the word does have other connotations.

New York attorney Aaron Schlossberg found himself on the receiving end of an Internet firestorm this week. His case raises some interesting questions about Internet vigilantism.

Celebrations and a deadly day in the Middle East.

The United States is apparently looking to Libya as a guide for upcoming talks with North Korea. The DPRK most likely sees the fate of that nation and its leader as a warning.

A well-meaning journalist brushes off critiques by experts in the field. He owes it to his readers to keep learning.

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

Under Nelson Mandela’s leadership, the country made a smooth transition from apartheid. Now it’s going the way of Zimbabwe.

President Trump has announced a new round of sanctions against North Korea, but they are unlikely to work given the unrealistic nature of the Administration’s current policy toward North Korea.

A Federal Judge In Kansas has blocked enforcement of a state law barring anyone who does business with the state from engaging in a boycott of Israel.