Outside the Beltway

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

Trump is like a child with a new toy.

The Israeli government has no plan. Its defense minister does.

Two related questions.

Israel and Iran’s proxies are on a collision course.

Article 99 meets Catch-22.

Hamas continues to cynically manipulate the world’s humanitarian impulses.

The war in Israel is in danger of expanding.

A roundup of news and opinon.

The 50th anniversary of the Yom Kippur war sees a re-escalation.

Sigh.

Understandable efforts to protect their market share are alienating customers who think they’re doing nothing wrong.

The PRC is skirting sanctions to supply a frienemy.

Breaking News

An unsavory practice that’s mostly legal.

The retired general and think tank president is in hot water.

Another potential deal that doesn’t address the central issue.

The Russian leader is isolated and under tremendous pressure.

Humanitarian instincts rightly trumped security concerns.

Grandstanding in the midst of chaos is a bad look.

Thousands of centrifuges have been destroyed.

Five men have been sentenced to die by a Saudi Arabian court for the murder of Jamal Khashoggi, but the parties who are really responsible are getting off scot-free.

It’s been one year since Jamal Khashoggi walked into the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, never to be seen in public again. We are no closer to justice in his case than we were a year ago.

Houthi rebels in Yemen have claimed responsibility for a massive attack on an important Saudi oil facility.

As if the situation in the Persian Gulf weren’t already tense enough, the Iranians shot down an American reconnaissance drone late yesterday

Expanding on events that have been going on for months, two oil tankers were attacked today near the entrance to the Persian Gulf

Taiwan has become the first nation in Asia to legally recognize same-sex marriage.

Former Vice-President Joe Biden is calling for an end to American support for the Saudi war on Yemen.

The Trump Administration’s policies toward Iran aren’t going to work, but that’s because they aren’t supposed to work.

President Trump has not surprisingly vetoed a Congressional resolution to limit American support for the Saudi war on Yemen. His defense for doing so is utterly absurd.

President Trump personally overrode the objections of security officials, the White House Counsel, and the Chief of Staff to make sure his son-in-law got a security clearance.

Federal prosecutors are investigating the Trump Inaugural Committee, adding to the long list of the President’s legal troubles.

Saudi Arabia’s story about the disappearance and death of Jamal Khashoggi continues to “evolve.”

President Trump is choosing money and moral cowardice over human life in his response to the disappearance of Jamal Khashoggi.

American involvement in the genocidal Saudi war on Yemen is getting more complicated. This is a bad idea.

Through our so-called allies in Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, the United States is helping to destroy Yemen. It’s time for our support for that war to come to an end.

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo delivered a bombastic speech on Iran yesterday that reveals just how empty and dangerous the Trump Administration’s policy toward Iran actually is.

Russia wasn’t the only nation that sent people to meet with Trump Campaign officials at Trump Tower back in 2016 regarding assistance to the Trump Campaign.

A response to one of the most deadly chemical attacks in the Syrian civil war has come, probably from Israel. What’s next?

Americans actings as agents for Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates have been working hard to manipulate the President.

Robert Mueller’s investigation appears to enter a new phase, with a focus on the President’s business dealings with Russia.

Ending an investigation that was flawed and tainted with partisanship from the start, the House Intelligence Committee has abruptly concluded its investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election.

The Russia investigation rolls on with more evidence of questionable conduct on the part of Trump and his team.

The circumstantial case for corruption by Kushner is growing.

This is very much why the security clearance process requires so much financial disclosure.

North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un is extending an olive branch of sorts to South Korea while simultaneously claiming success in achieving a nuclear deterrent.

Since taking office, President Trump has made an average of 5.5 false claims per day.

Progress in Saudi Arabia, but there’s still a long way for this backward, discriminatory society to go.

President Trump’s speech on Islam was a change of tone. However, as critics noted, it was short on substance and is unlikely to accomplish anything.

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.