Outside the Beltway

Another Cabinet member rebukes the President for his comments about Charlottesville.

Donald Trump’s Secretary of State is refusing to defend his response to the violence in Charlottesville.

Donald Trump kowtows to Vladimir Putin yet again.

The Mueller investigation continues.

Vice-President Pence is advocating the admission of Georgia into NATO. That would be a bad idea.

President Trump’s weeklong effort to undermine his own Attorney General continues.

Is there anyone in the Trump Administration or family who hasn’t held undisclosed meetings with Russians?

Most Americans believe that President Trump has been actively trying to block the F.B.I.’s Russia investigation

A legendary statesman has passed.

The President’s Son-In-Law has reportedly become a ‘focus’ of the ongoing F.B.I. investigation. That puts the President in a very awkward position.

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

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

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

More trouble for Lt. General Michael Flynn.

The tiny Balkan nation of Montenegro is set to become the latest member of the NATO alliance despite the fact that there is seemingly no good reason for it.

More evidence of ties between the Trump campaign and Russian interests.

Two big admissions from the Director of the F.B.I. today are likely to lead to real political headaches for the Trump Administration.

Another day, another round of reports about contacts with Russian officials and people close to President Trump.

The story about the Trump campaign’s ties to Russia didn’t start with Michael Flynn, and it isn’t going to end with his resignation.

Could National Security Adviser Michael Flynn be the first to go under Trump?

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

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

Republicans sure have changed their mind about Vladimir Putin.

A controversial member of George W. Bush’s foreign policy team is up for a post in Donald Trump’s State Department.

The head of the biggest energy company in the world is reportedly Donald Trump’s pick for Secretary of State.

Political change coming to Germany? Or more of the same.

A controversial retired General has been tapped to be President-Elect Trump’s top White House foreign policy voice.

According to reports, Vice-President Biden is on a Clinton campaign short list for Secretary of State.

A new report concludes that Malaysia Air Flight 17 was brought down by a missile brought into Ukraine from Russia.

Don’t be fooled into thinking that the election is “over,” because it isn’t.

President Obama will leave office as the first two term President who presided over eight years of war. It didn’t start with him and it won’t end with him.

By a narrow margin, British voters have chosen to send their nation, themselves, and indeed all of Europe into uncharted waters.

One down. How many more to go?

A treasure trove of documents from a law firm in Panama could prove problematic for a large group of international leaders.

Donald Trump loves the fact that he’s being praised by an autocratic dictator.

NATO is extending full membership to the tiny nation of Montenegro, and there doesn’t seem to be a good reason why they’re doing it.

France’s President has spent the week trying to forge and agreement on an anti-ISIS policy, but the two nations that matter the most also disagree the most.

A potentially big complication in an already complicated situation.

The news that at least some of the men who were involved in the terrorist attacks in Paris were among the refugees who have arrived in Europe since the summer is likely to complicate an already complicated situation.

President Obama came to office inheriting the legacy of one unnecessary war, and another that had faded from memory. He will leave office with Iraq and Syria in crisis, Europe uneasy, Yemen and Libya unstable breeding grounds for terrorism, and China doing whatever it is they’re doing.

A Dutch inquiry has largely confirmed what was widely believed about the fate of Malaysian Airlines Flight 17.

With Russia now launching its own airstrikes in Syria, it’s become obvious that U.S. policy in the Syrian Civil War is irrational and contradictory. And Russia’s policy isn’t any better.

With the exception of Rand Paul, the foreign policy discussion at last night’s debate was about as bad as you’d expect.

President Obama’s confrontational approach to opponents of the Iran Nuclear Deal ignores legitimate questions.

Rand Paul’s Presidential campaign isn’t going so well at the moment.