Outside the Beltway

Two Federal Judges have issued orders blocking the latest version of President Trump’s Muslim Travel Ban.

The Trump Administration has issued a new travel ban to replace the temporary one that expired late last week, but it still suffers from most of the same defects as its initial efforts.

In a marked departure from previous American Presidents, Donald Trump delivered a highly belligerent speech to the U.N. General Assembly.

More foreign policy amateurism.

Trump isn’t going to win any regional popularity awards in LA.

President Trump continues his war on one of the most important guardians of American democracy.

And some comments on Trumps’ anemic rhetoric.

More stupid, irresponsible rhetoric from the President of the United States.

By a narrow margin, Turks voted for some significant changes.

One of the Cold War era’s last dictators has finally died.

The final major piece of the negotiations between the FARC and the Colombian government appears to be in place.

Concerns about the Zika Virus are leading some doctors to call for the 2016 Summer Olympics to be moved or postponed.

Cardinals executives were doing a little more than just stealing signs, apparently.

Some thoughts on a column by Roger Noriega on the Obama administration and Latin America,

The price of oil is continuing to fall, but it won’t last forever.

A little round of Qs and As on US-Cuban policy.

Rand Paul is one of the few Republicans who seems to be evaluating the new policy toward Cuba through something other than an outdated Cold War perspective.

For a year that started out with regaining long-lost territory in Ukraine, 2014 is not ending so well for Vladimir Putin’s Russia.

Twenty-five years after his seminal “End of History” article, Francis Fukuyama reflects on its legacy.

For the first time, Edward Snowden is talking to the American media.

Thanks to Edward Snowden, the Washington Post and the Guardian are Pulitzer Prize winners.

Some thoughts and links about the ongoing turmoil in Venezuela.

Barack Obama is no Jimmy Carter.

One thing is clear: Maduro lacks Chavez’s political skills.

President Obama is rewarding unqualified hacks who raised huge sums for his campaign with ambassadorships.

Without a deal of some kind, it’s quite likely that Edward Snowden will remain beyond the reach of U.S. law enforcement or some time to come.

Will this new Australian oil discovery shake up world politics?