Outside the Beltway

Republicans are blindly loyal to this President in a way we have not seen before. They are likely to end up paying a price for that.

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.

The Trump Administration continues to drive a wedge between the United States and Europe, can it ever be repaired?

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

The American withdrawal from the I.N.F. Treaty gives Vladimir Putin exactly what he wants.

Despite the President’s claims, the American steel industry isn’t doing well at all.

A new blockbuster report implicates the President in no less than five Federal crimes.

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 a move that is likely to have political and international consequences, the Ukrainian Orthodox Church has officially severed ties with Moscow.

China has landed a probe on the far side of the Moon, the latest step forward in an aggressive Chinese push into space.

As the shutdown drags on, the President is digging in his heels even further.

It is sincerely disturbing that the POTUS has this level of understanding of history and foreign policy.

Notwithstanding the temptation to do something, both the United States and NATO need to resist the temptation to get involved in the latest conflict between Russia and Ukraine.

A confrontation at sea between Russia and Ukraine is increasing tensions in a long-simmering conflict.

President Trump recently blamed former President Obama for “losing” Crimea. It was never ours to lose.

One hundred years after the end of World War One, the forces that led to it are waking up from a long slumber.

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.

The Russians are interfering in our electoral system again, and they’re using our own hyperpartisanship to accomplish their goals.

Donald Trump is a coward and an apologist for evil around the world.

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.

President Trump’s second speech to the General Assembly of the United Nations wasn’t much better than the first, but it it did get the world laughing at us.

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

President Trump is alienating our allies and making friends with dictators, and the world is responding as you might expect they would.

Russia’s real goal in interfering in American elections may not have anything to do with favoring one candidate over another.

The 95-year-old elder statesman is slowly shedding his public reticence at the risk of the access on which he has built his fortune.

Even if all he gets out of the Helsinki Summit is a handshake and a photograph, Vladimir Putin has already won.

The NATO Summit is going about as well as can be expected.

On the eve of the NATO Summit, President Trump continues to engage in tactics that seem to serve no purpose other than to undermine America’s most important and successful alliance.

Donald Trump had to be talked down from considering military intervention in Venezuela.

The right-wing government in Warsaw has purged more than one-third of the members of the Polish Supreme Court in a crackdown on political opponents.

Donald Trump’s trade war continues to have negative consequences for American consumers and businesses.

More evidence that North Korea isn’t living up to the promises it made in Singapore.

The Polish Government has amended a controversial law that sought to punish people for discussing the role that some Poles played in the Holocaust.

President Trump reportedly trashed the NATO alliance in conversations at the G-7 Summit, something that should make Russian President Vladimir Putin quite happy.

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

Once touted as an example of his deal-making prowess, Harley-Davidson sent a rebuke to President Trump by announcing it was moving some manufacturing to Europe to counteract the impact of his ongoing trade war.

Not surprisingly, Canadians aren’t too thrilled with Donald Trump these days.

Three months after it started, the Trump Trade War is already starting to have a negative impact on American businesses and American consumers.

President Trump once said that “trade wars are good and easy to win.” It’s only been three months since he started this war and we’re already finding out just how wrong he is about that.

President Trump continues to dismiss concerns about Kim Jong Un’s brutality, and to lavish praise on a man who has a considerable amount of blood on his hands.

The Singapore Summit meeting between President Trump and Kim Jong Un was about as substance-less as most analysts anticipated it would be.

Thanks to Donald Trump, the happiest man in the world right now is Vladimir Putin.

For the second time in three years, we have a Triple Crown winner.

As he headed to the G-7 Summit, President Trump threw our ostensible allies another curve.

The arguments in favor of a permanent U.S./NATO base in Poland are not very convincing.

Frank Carlucci, who served as President Reagan’s last Secretary of Defense, has died at 87.

The date and location of the meeting between President Trump and Kim Jong Un has been set, but there’s as much chance of failure as their is hope for success.

New documents reveal that the Limited Liability Company that paid off Stormy Daniels also received payments from a company linked to a Russian oligarch.

Seven years after deactivation, the U.S. Second Fleet will be patrolling the North Atlantic again.