Outside the Beltway

The political party formed by French President Emmanuel Macron just about a year ago scored big wins in yesterday’s first round of legislative elections.

President Trump took to Twitter again this morning and promptly shot himself in the foot.

Despite campaign promises, President Trump won’t be moving the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem anytime soon.

The Administration suffers another defeat in defense of its effort to ban Muslim immigrants.

Donald Trump seems to have an odd habit of sharing highly classified information with questionable people.

A night of carnage and depravity in the United Kingdom.

Iranian voters have re-elected Hassan Rouhani, a relative moderate whose election in 2013 was largely responsible for the shifts in policy that made the international agreement regarding Iran’s nuclear research program possible.

The evidence that President Trump fired James Comey in an effort to quash the Russia investigation continues to mount.

An assessment of the 45th President’s first 100 days.

As he nears the end of his first 100 days in office, President Trump continues to suffer from bad poll numbers.

President Trump’s job approval woes are starting to impact the GOP as a whole.

The previous discussion continued.

North Korea is threatening another nuclear test, the United States is threatening retaliation, and China is warning of a ‘gathering storm’ on the Korean Peninsula.

It’s been a bad week for U.S.-Russian relations.

Inconceivably, Steve Bannon thought that clashing with President Trump’s daughter and son-in-law was a good idea. He’s likely learned his lesson now.

A top Trump campaign adviser was the subject of a FISA warrant for at least part of last year.

Has China finally had enough of North Korea?

A majority of Americans support last week’s airstrikes in Syria but are skeptical of any expansion beyond that.

A warning to North Korea.

It’s not at all clear that there is a useful strategy at work here.

Donald Trump is historically unpopular for a new President. What does that mean when his first foreign policy crisis comes, as it inevitably will?

An apparent terrorist attack in Russia’s second largest city.

Despite American air strikes, ISIS is expanding its power amid the chaos in Libya.

An apparent terror attack outside Parliament in London.

More conflicts of interest for the Trump Administration.

Hawaii is the first state to challenge the Trump Administration’s revised Muslim travel ban.

President Trump has issued a revised ban on travel from six predominantly Muslim nations.

The announcement of a new Muslim travel ban Executive Order has been delayed once again.

Another judicial slap at the Trump Administration.

The President throws the US under the bus to defend Putin.

Two new polls show that most Americans oppose President Trump’s ban on travel from seven majority Muslim countries, but that most Republicans support it.

An initial setback for the Federal Government in its appeal of the ruling putting President Trump’s Muslim travel ban on hold.

A legal victory, at least for now, for opponents of Donald Trump’s ban on immigration from seven majority Muslim nations.

In a closer than normal vote for the position, Rex Tillerson has been confirmed as Secretary of State.

The first day of implementation of President Trump’s order barring immigration from certain Muslim nations did not go smoothly for the Administration.

As expected, Donald Trump yesterday signed Executive Orders targeting Muslims and refugees.

Despite campaign promises, President Trump appears to be putting off any immediate decision on the location of the U.S. Embassy to Israel.

The 117 CIA officers who have died in our service should not be used to score cheap political points.

Ambassador Karlov is mostly likely not a modern day Archduke Franz Ferdinand.

Another attack in what has been a bloody 2016 for Europe.

The situation in the Middle East just potentially became much more complicated.

Republicans sure have changed their mind about Vladimir Putin.