Outside the Beltway

Chelsea Manning is in jail for refusing to comply with a Grand Jury subpoena apparently related to an ongoing investigation of Julian Assange and Wikileaks.

While the rest of the world looks at other events, tensions are flaring in a long-standing global hot spot.

Former Massachusetts Governor Bill Weld has rejoined the Republican Party, leading many to wonder if he’s considering a challenge to President Trump in 2020.

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

Is the settlement of the government shutdown just delaying the inevitable?

Florida’s New Governor has removed the Sheriff of Broward County over his officer’s lack of response before and during the Parkland shooting.

Washington has become the latest state to ban the sale of semiautomatic assault rifles to persons under 21.

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

Bret Stephens’ piece this week adds up to not much.

Science can’t precisely locate gender but it’s neither fully biological nor fully genetic.

The world loses a genuine war hero.

The first day of the Kavanaugh confirmation hearings was much ado about pretty much nothing, but then that can be used to describe a process whose outcome is pretty much foreordained.

Throughout the War On Terror, John McCain stood out as a strong moral voice against the use of torture against prisoners. For that he deserves the thanks of a grateful nation.

President Trump’s much-hyped replacement for NAFTA doesn’t really amount to much and won’t amount to anything unless he can get Canada, and the U.S. Congress, on board.

Senator John McCain has died at the age of 81,

Kofi Annan, who served as Secretary-General of the United Nations at the dawn of the “War On Terror,” has died at the age of 80.

In a 5-4 ruling, the Supreme Court struck down a California law requiring Crisis Pregnancy Centers to provide information about abortion.

Anthony Bourdain was a renowned chef, writer, television host, and storyteller. He also suffered from demons that ultimately caught up with him.

There are twice as many suicides as homicides in America.

Days after designer Kate Spade killed herself, depression has claimed another celebrity.

He thinks his Constitutional rights are being violated. They’re not.

Tomorrow, Irish voters will head to the polls to decide whether or not to scrap a Constitutional Amendment that bans abortion in essentially all circumstances.

Not surprisingly, the North Koreans are pushing back against American efforts to force them into a corner on denuclearization.

Travis Reinking shot four people dead in Nashville over the weekend with a gun that he wasn’t supposed to have access to. Thanks to what seem to be loopholes in existing gun laws, he had one anyway.

Late last week, Hawaii became the seventh state and eighth major American jurisdiction to legalize assisted suicide.

A blog post and resulting Twitter exchange point to a larger problem in our political dialog.

Not surprisingly, John Bolton has some links to particularly shady people on the right.

A disturbing report in the Miami Herald highlights the farce into which this trial has descended.

John Bolton is leading a cry for preemptive war against North Korea.

President Trump is pressing the idea of arming teachers to stop shootings in schools.

NRO’s David French offers “A Gun-Control Measure Conservatives Should Consider.”

Expecting North Korea to agree to diplomatic talks that are aimed at getting rid of their nuclear weapons is asking for the impossible, and ensuring there will be no progress on the diplomatic front for the foreseeable future.

The rise of ‘car sharing’ services has greatly benefitted consumers but had a devastating effect on taxi drivers.

In May, Irish voters will vote on a referendum to remove the near-universal ban on abortion in the nation’s Constitution. And it looks as though it will pass.

A horrible terror attack in Egypt.

Things are heating up very quickly in Catalonia.

President Obama spoke out yesterday against his successor and the America he has created.

The capital of the purported caliphate declared by ISIS has apparently fallen, but that doesn’t mean the end of ISIS. In fact, it may make the group more dangerous.

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.

In a marked departure from previous American Presidents, Donald Trump delivered a highly belligerent speech to the U.N. General Assembly.

America’s longest war seems likely to soon turn into America’s never-ending war.

Ending a mission that began when it was launched nearly twenty years ago, the Cassini probe was sent into Saturn’s atmosphere to perform one final task.

The London subway was hit by a bomb during the morning rush hour. Authorities are treating it as a terrorist attack.

Absent significant changes, expecting normal diplomatic relationships with the DPRK is a pipe dream.

President Trump’s reaction to the terror attack in Spain included an easily debunked lie about one of America’s most decorated Generals.

A Massachusetts teenager faces 20 years in prison for contributing to her boyfriend’s suicide via text message.

Great Britain heads to the polls today.

Another night of terror in the United Kingdom.