Outside the Beltway

Holding the president accountable is hard.

Cops aren’t soldiers or spies but fellow citizens.

At what point does a demonstration become something else?

The regime’s crackdown on their Muslim minority is worse than imagined.

For the second time, the chief federal prosecutor for Manhattan has been fired.

A proportional response.

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

Questions linger after a shooting leaves three people and the shooter dead in an incident at one of the nation’s largest Naval facilities.

Blue & White Party Leader Benny Gantz was unable to form a new government, throwing Israel into another political crisis.

ISIS is quickly taking advantage of the abrupt American withdrawal from northern Syria.

American negotiators are claiming a ceasefire in northern Syria. The Turks, Syrians, and Russians are the winners, the Kurds are the losers, and we look like schmucks.

As the Turkish invasion of northern Syria continues, Donald Trump responds with basically nothing.

President Trump is basically saying he does not care if ISIS prisoners return to Europe to commit terror attacks.

Trump makes a particularly dumb comment about our alliance with Syrian Kurds.

Just days after President Trump agreed to remove American forces from the scene, Turkish forces are entering northern Syria and Kurdish forces say they ar ready for war.

It’s not just Ukraine.

Eighteen years after the September 11th attacks, it’s becoming harder to remember what the world used to be like.

Trump’s words on Monday versus, well, almost every other time he speaks…

On a day that called for national unity and empathy, President Trump couldn’t help but revert to form.

Cesar Sayoc, the man who started a panic in October when he sent apparent explosive devices to a number of President Trump’s critics, has been sentenced to 20 years in prison

One photograph that has gone viral is standing as a visualization of the Trump Administration’s inhumane asylum policies.

Donald Trump has endorsed a proposal by a Republican Senator to ban flag burning.

While the drumbeat for impeachment of the President continues on the left, political reality suggests caution.

John Walker Lindh, the so-called “American Taliban,” has been released from prison but the war in which he was captured goes merrily along.

I sense a great disturbance in the Force. As if a billion voices are crying out “No, not Chewie!!!!”

Breaking News out of Latin America

Sunday’s attacks in Sri Lanka make it clear that the claim that ISIS has been defeated are nowhere close to being true.

Further evidence that Sri Lankan authorities failed to act on warnings of rising Jihadism in their country.

ISIS is claiming responsibility for Sunday’s attacks in Sri Lanka, a strong sign that the claims by the Trump Administration that it had largely defeated the group were not true.

Evidence is emerging that the Sri Lankan government had advance warning regarding potential terror attacks but failed to act on the information.

Instead of merely seeking to block the President’s declaration of an “emergency” at the southern border, Congress should instead significantly amend the National Emergencies Act.

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

Rather than pulling completely out of Syria the United States will be leaving behind a token force of about 200 troops. This is a mistake.

The former #2 official at the FBI is trying to sell a book.

The cases of Ralph Northam and Mark Herring raise a question of when, if ever, something we did in the past should follow us for the rest of our lives.

Terrorists aren’t walking across the desert to get here. Flying is so much easier.

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.

President Trump’s latest attack on the Federal Judiciary prompted a rare rebuke from the Chief Justice of the United States.

Former Arizona Sheriff and Senate candidate Joe Arpaio is suing The New York Times for defamation. He doesn’t appear to have much of a case.

Part III is here (a lot sooner than Part II was).

Yesterday’s test of the Presidential Alert system went about as planned.

Seventeen years ago, America was thrust into a war that seemingly has no end.

In his final words to his fellow Senators, and to his fellow Americans, Senator John McCain left a legacy, and a challenge.

The Trump’s Administration’s rhetoric and actions have given the Iranians no reason to trust the United States going forward.

A towering figure gone much too soon.

President Trump is at the center of controversy again after video emerged of him returning the salute of a North Korean General.

Oliver North is fitting right in at the N.R.A.

With the start of her confirmation hearings just days away, Gina Haspel’s nomination to be C.I.A. Director is by no means secure.

President Trump’s on-again, off-again visit to Great Britain appears to be on again.

General (Retired) Michael Hayden has some harsh, and concerning, criticisms of the Trump administration.