Outside the Beltway

A fifty-year dictatorship has been ousted. What now?

Plus: Governor Glenn Youngkin helps out.

A massive Israeli operation. To what end?

Some Democrats are unhappy Harris is touting the endorsement of the Cheneys.

The legendary basketball player and executive is gone at 86.

A desperate measure for a desperate problem.

The BBC’s security correspondent thinks so.

It’s likely legal and almost certainly won’t matter.

The trial judge had a conflict of interest.

The controversies over our geriatric Congress continue.

A wrongheaded if longstanding position.

A legal but unsavory solution to a problem.

Three-and-a-half years and almost 6 million tax dollars have produced nothing.

The threat is not idle and the options for responding are not good.

How much blame did the 70-year constitutional monarch share?

An embarrassing photo demonstrates the perils of leading the free world.

The West continues to close Moscow off.

Putin must be worrying about losing what little empire he has built.

A depressing magazine piece argues it is.

A piece in The Atlantic inspires thoughts.

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

He was both the youngest and oldest man to run the Pentagon.

The least controversial subject in school is suddenly controversial.

The President has overturned decades of US foreign policy and alienated a NATO ally for, well, reasons.

Don’t believe everything you see on TV.

Four administrations and two decades later, it’s about to be over.

Some reflections

Holding the president accountable is hard.

A 7-2 decision by the highest court in the land is less decisive than the numbers suggest.

A reckoning for 2500 Kosovar Serb civilians who were slaughtered is at hand.

A stroll down memory lane.

Jo Rae Perkins may be a nut, but she won a four-person primary.

President Trump’s threat to attack Iranian cultural sites would most likely constitute a war crime if he actually carried it out.

An inexcusable assault on an utterly defenseless African-American teenager.

Against the advice of his top military advisers, President Trump has cleared three American soldiers of war crimes, sending a horrible signal to the world and to the troops in the field.

This year’s Nobel Peace Prize Laureate comes from a part of the world that most people almost never think about.

Yes, officials who follow the law are “whistleblowers.”

Robert Mugabe led a nation to independence only to become a dictator who destroyed its economy, has died at the age of 95.

Donald Trump returned to the campaign trail last night with another one of his red meat speeches. The analogies it causes one to draw are chilling to say the least.

President Trump is reportedly planning to pardon several American servicemen convicted of war crimes, an action that would be an insult to everyone who has ever worn an American uniform.

Attorney General William Barr has opened a new investigation into the origins of the Russia investigation, a move that seems suspiciously political.

The replacement of Anthony Kennedy with Brett Kavanaugh is already having a significant impact.

The Saudis tortured an American citizen, but the Trump Administration doesn’t care.

American military intervention in Venezuela would make the situation in that country worse, not better.

And a reminder about how little the current POTUS understands.

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.

William Barr, who served as Attorney General under President George H.W. Bush, has been selected to replace Jeff Sessions as Attorney General.

National Security Adviser John Bolton offered an utterly absurd explanation for why he had not listened to the tape of Jamal Khashoggi’s murder.

The Saudi Foreign Minister expanded on his nation’s utterly implausible explanation for the death of Jamal Khashoggi