Outside the Beltway

A four-pronged test.

A very different way to run a railroad.

A strange obsession.

The artless deal.

Trump’s One Weird Trick to end the war in Ukraine.

An unusual diplomatic approach.

Who could have known?

Russia, Russia, Russia?

Trump blames Ukraine for being invaded.

It’s going to be a long four years.

We have crossed Putin’s red line.

Where’s my $400,000 a month contract?

Who did Nazi this coming?

His former National Security Advisor is not impressed.

A bold reversal of fortunes. For now.

Alas, on terms Ukraine can’t possibly accept.

Eye-rolling moral equivalence that will lessen respect for international law.

A win for the good guys and a loss for Trump and Putin.

It’s about time.

While the West dithers, Russia is doubling down.

Putin ignored warnings from US intelligence.

He’s on a winning streak not seen since Stalin.

The state of the union is apparently fiery.

Yet more evidence the man is unfit to serve as Commander-in-Chief.

The problem that won’t go away.

A growing scourge may be next to impossible to stop.

The BBC’s security correspondent thinks so.

The Republican frontrunner continues to use Hitler’s language, praise dictators, and lionize traitors.

His critics are focused on the wrong problem.

A competent leader versus a lunatic would seem an easy choice. Alas.

The tables have turned.

Will taking the war to Moscow change Putin’s calculus?

It turns out, he wasn’t all that truthful.

Vivek Ramaswamy’s national coming out party was, well, interesting.

Russian war crimes have made a diplomatic settlement next to impossible.

Must every topic be viewed through that lens?

One question answered. Another raised.

Well, that de-escalated quickly.

A stupid move by a crackpot? Or a turning point?

The leveling of Bakhmut is the latest Russian atrocity.

He’s turned Russia from a G-8 member to an international pariah.

Leaked intelligence intercepts take us inside the Ukrainian war room.

CNN gave the former Liar in Chief a huuuge platform.

The Pope is siding with evil.

A weird twist to the online leak story.

Sanctions and a costly war are taking their toll.

The Russian leader’s status as an international pariah is cemented.

As memory of the Cold War fades, so does support for American primacy.