Outside the Beltway

A humanitarian crisis made worse by shameful delays.

The collapse is not his doing. But he’s accountable for the poor planning.

The collapse is coming even faster than feared.

Gotta clear those tabs.

An exceptional choice that breaks the recent tradition of politicos in the post.

Stenography is not journalism.

A bizarre case of bureaucratic ineptitude.

Appoint more Asian American and Pacific Islanders. Or else!

The longtime public servant has died, aged 100.

Policy wonks are seeing a refreshing return to the normal order. Some believe that’s a bad thing.

My latest for Defense One.

She’d be America’s first woman intelligence chief.

The 46th President’s foreign policy team is taking shape.

” . . . to a second Trump Administration.” Get it?

A Senate GOP report doesn’t find anything new.

Confusing advice is unlikely to be heeded.

The Republican Party is now the mirror image of the totalitarian propagandists it used to hate.

A lousy column indirectly makes an important point.

Parents can’t homeschool their kids and hold down jobs indefinitely.

Presidents have appointed loyalists since time immemorial. Has this one gone too far?

Trump fires another Inspector General.

In recent weeks the US has ramped-up pressure on Maduro.

Political considerations overruled warnings from national security and health professionals.

US citizens are urged to stay home. Those abroad are urged to return now or risk not being able to later.

Richard Burr, Jim Inhofe, David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler should go to jail.

A prudent, if overdue, warning.

It’s not clear what has been achieved.

Only the best people.

The chief diplomat of the United States isn’t very diplomatic (nor informative).

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has decided against running for Senator Kansas, decision that could force the GOP to defend an otherwise safe seat.

Despite Pompeo’s assurances, we are already seeing consequences for the Suleimani killing.

An American drone strike has taken out the head of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard, a move likely to significantly increase tensions across the Middle East.

Policies towards Iran and NK are both a mess.

It could take weeks to resolve the impasse between the House and Senate over the procedures to be followed in the Senate trial of President Trump.

For the third time in history, an American President has been impeached.

A new report details the extent to which the eighteen-year Afghanistan War has been marked by mistakes, and lies by the government to cover-up the fact that we went to war without a clear understanding of what we were doing.

With the clock ticking down to the end of the year and a deadline imposed by the DPRK on talks with the U.S., the Trump Administration’s North Korea policy is in a shambles.

Much like the President they obsequiously defend, Republicans have become useful idiots in Russia’s war on Western liberal democracy.

The House Intelligence Committee has released its report resulting from its investigation of the Ukraine scandal.

The vultures keep circling above the head of “America’s Mayor.”

New revelations punch a big hole in Republican defenses of the President.

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo looks ready to jump ship in favor of a run for Senate,

Lock her up?

As the walls close in, the President is growing more agitated.

The Trump Administration’s strategy in North Korea is an utter failure.

After a long day of hearings, the case against the President is becoming clearer and Republican defenses becoming more absurd.

Reversing decades of policy, the Trump Administration reversed decades of policy on settlements in disputed territory.

Giuliani confirms.

Former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch described how the President’s allies intimidated her out of her position, while the President intimidated her live on Twitter.

There were few fireworks during the first day of public impeachment hearings, but the ground work for a case against the President was laid.