Outside the Beltway

The actor best known for his roles as Jackie Robinson and Black Panther has been lost to cancer.

The National Security Advisor to Presidents Ford and GHW Bush has died.

Are those who die in our wars more deserving than those who die in our stores?

Yet another grim milestone.

Another grim milestone

Another grim milestone. It won’t be the last.

Things are not looking good.

He was the king of crossover hits long before Garth Brooks.

A new report details the extent to which the eighteen-year Afghanistan War has been marked by mistakes, and lies by the government to cover-up the fact that we went to war without a clear understanding of what we were doing.

Given the times we live in, you may be tempted to argue about politics tomorrow. Here’s my advice — don’t do it.

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.

President Trump’s sudden decision to withdraw troops from Syria isn’t receiving much public support.

A conservative columnist argues the legitimacy of our system is in question.

Obvious advice is obvious.

Eighteen years after it started, the American public seems to be mostly ignoring the war in Afghanistan. But that isn’t an excuse for not bringing it to an end.

A Federal Judge in Washington has dismissed a lawsuit filed by the DNC alleging a conspiracy between the Trump campaign and Russia during the 2016 election.

President Trump’s nominee to be the next Director of National Intelligence is quite simply not qualified for the position he has been nominated to.

Everything you always wanted in a hearing. And less.

Robert Mueller didn’t provide a smoking gun yesterday, but the President and his supporters are wrong to claim that the hearing vindicated the President.

Is it possible, or even appropriate, to express pride in a country that is being led by a President who stands against everything this country stands for?

The Supreme Court ruled that a World War One memorial that had been on public grounds for 70 years can stay where it is.

Thirty years ago, when the veterans of D-Day were still relatively young and still largely with us, President Reagan delivered one of the finest speeches of his Presidency.

White House aides asked the Navy to keep the USS John McCain “out of sight” while the President visited a Navy base in Japan earlier this week.

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.

All three children of the next head of the Army are following in his footsteps.

The Wall Street Journal tries, and fails, to defend President Trump’s indefensible veto of the Congressional resolution regarding the war on Yemen.

The legendary figure was in charge of strategic forecasting at the Pentagon for decades.

It turns out, The Duke wasn’t all that woke.

A student in Florida has been charged with creating a disturbance after declining to recite the Pledge Of Allegiance in class.

There is a bit of a disjuncture between the terminology and the reality (but that does not excuse Trump’s current actions).

Walter Jones, a former supporter of the Iraq War who became one of the most prominent anti-war voices in Congress, has passed away at the age of 76. He will be missed.

In a rare display of assertiveness in the foreign policy arena, the House voted yesterday to bar U.S. assistance in Saudi Arabia’s genocidal war on Yemen.

The longest-serving member of Congress in American history has passed away at the age of 92.

Former Senator and Denocratic Presidential candidate Jim Webb is reportedly being considered for Defense Secretary.

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.

American troops have been in Afghanistan for seventeen years now, it’s time to bring them all home.

An effort by the Federal Government to prosecute Wikileaks founder Julian Assange raises serious First Amendment issues.

It would be a rather quixotic effort, but Jeff Flake isn’t ruling out challenging the President for the Republican nomination in 2020.

The GOP is likely to lose control of the House of Representatives tomorrow, but could this actually help Trump?

For the second time this year, a Federal Court has struck down a state law designed to punish businesses that engage in a boycott aimed at Israel.

The State of Texas is arguing in Court that a school district can force a student to stand for the Pledge of Allegiance. This is a blatant violation of the First Amendment.

Washington said farewell to John McCain today in a service that both remembered his spirit and his heroism, and stands as a sharp rebuke to what politics has been reduced to in America today.

President Trump reportedly vetoed a plan to issue a statement lauding Senator John McCain after he died on Saturday.

Senator John McCain has died at the age of 81,

A Federal Judge in Washington State has, at least temporarily, blocked the release of files that would allow anyone to make a 3-D printed gun. The First Amendment seems to clearly indicate that this ruling is wrong.

Even if all he gets out of the Helsinki Summit is a handshake and a photograph, Vladimir Putin has already won.

The situation isn’t as awful as portrayed by the AP—but it’s still pretty bad.

What was once a rare symbol of national mourning has become so commonplace as to be meaningless.