Outside the Beltway

Former Utah Governor Jon Huntsman is running to get his old job back.

North Korea appears to be pulling back from any future negotiations over its nuclear weapons and ballistic missile programs, leaving the Trump Administration’s Korea policy in shambles.

President Trump has reportedly pledged to Chinese President Xi Jinping that the United States would not speak out against Chinese actions in Hong Kong.

Eighteen years after it started, the American public seems to be mostly ignoring the war in Afghanistan. But that isn’t an excuse for not bringing it to an end.

John Bolton was not a good National Security Adviser, but the real problem with Trump Administration foreign policy comes from the man at the top.

At least in official government documents, Japan will return to the tradition Asian style of placing the surname before an individuals given name.

Meanwhile, on the Korean Peninsula…..

The 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld a District Court ruling that President Trump cannot block Twitter users from accessing his account.

Is the United States finally ready to give up on the fantasy that North Korea will surrender its nuclear weapons?

President Trump and North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un met at the Demilitarized Zone for what amounts to their third summit in a year. As with the previous two, there was nothing of substance accomplished.

Not content with taking a wrecking ball to America’s trans-Atlantic alliances, the President is attacking our trans-Pacific allies as well.

The latest is about deportations

Trump and Iran.

This time on Venezuela

The State Department has barred American Embassies from flying the Pride Flag during Pride Month as has been the custom for several years.

The Trump Administration continues to misstate what the DPRK agreed to regarding its nuclear program. That’s why talks between the two nations are stalled.

Seventy-five years ago today, American soldiers and our allies undertook an invasion that helped change the world.

A misleading, annoying media trope that needs to go away.

Having exhausted their word list and the competitors, the contest ended with octo-champs.

The DPRK sent a message to the United States over the weekend, but it’s unlikely the President was listening.

This year’s graduating class at West Point includes a record number of African-American women.

President Trump is in Japan, and while there is is dismissing the seriousness of new North Korean missile tests that threaten Japan.

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

President Trump’s foreign policy has largely been a failure, and there are specific reasons why.

Newly discovered evidence shows that foreign governments have expanded their leasing of space from at least one Trump-owned office building in New York City.

The Trump Administration’s policies toward Iran aren’t going to work, but that’s because they aren’t supposed to work.

The Trump Administration still doesn’t have realistic goals for its negotiations with North Korea.

In the wake of the failure of the Hanoi Summit to reach any agreement at all, North Korea appears to be returning to old form.

Once again, President Trump gets taken for a sucker by the North Koreans.

In the end, the reason the Hanoi Summit failed is because the Trump Administration is pursuing an unattainable goal.

Once again, President Trump proves that in the face of evil he is a coward and a disgrace.

The second summit between President Trump and Kim Jong Un ended early without any kind of agreement, signalling that no real progress has been made in talks between the two countries.

President Trump and Kim Jong Un hold their second summit in Hanoi later this week, but it’s unlikely anything significant will happen.

The arguments against withdrawing American forces from Afghanistan are becoming weaker and weaker.

The date and location of the next summit between President Trump and Kim Jong Un have been set, but it’s hard to see what can really be accomplished.

As threatened late last year, the Trump Administration has withdrawn from the Intermediate=Range Nuclear Forces Treaty. This is a mistake.

President Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un will meet again in February, but it’s hard to see why.

Donald Trump continues to appear to advocate ideas that harm American national interests and benefit Vladimir Putin. Draw your own conclusions as to why.

In his annual message, Kim Jong Un sent a message to President Trump on denuclearization and the future of the Korean Peninsula.

The Pentagon is being ordered to draw up plans to withdraw roughly one-half of the American forces remaining in Afghanistan. It’s about time.

In what clearly appears to be a rebuke of the President, Defense Secretary James Mattis is retiring as Secretary of Defense.

The North Korean government is making clear what it means when it speaks of denuclearization, and its far different from what the United States means.

American troops have been in Afghanistan for seventeen years now, it’s time to bring them all home.

Not one war, but five.

President Trump is preparing to scrap a thirty-year-old treaty that marked the beginning of the end of the Cold War. It would be a foolish mistake.

President Trump got his revised version of NAFTA, but Canadians are less positive about the United States than they have been in at least twenty years.

President Trump is once again threatening to lower the tariff hammer on one of America’s most reliable allies and biggest trading partners.

Donald Trump’s trade war is helping China expand its diplomatic influence.

Reports about tension between Defense Secretary James Mattis and President Trump are becoming louder, and it’s being suggested that Mattis could be out of office after the midterms.

As problematic as some of what we know about the internal workings of the White House may be, it isn’t a coup.