Outside the Beltway

The postmortems are well underway.

He was both the youngest and oldest man to run the Pentagon.

The Commonwealth is much more diverse than national election returns might indicate.

“If the conservative cause depends on the populist appeal of one personality, or on second-rate imitations, then we’re not going anywhere.”

Reflections on the events of 6 January two months later.

Some reflections

The iconoclastic journalist is out at the publication he founded.

Cops aren’t soldiers or spies but fellow citizens.

So far at least, Elizabeth Warren is not doing a good job of articulating her foreign policy positions. That needs to change if she’s going to be a serious candidate.

Eighteen years after the September 11th attacks, it’s becoming harder to remember what the world used to be like.

The Trump Administration from projects to build on-base schools and daycare facilities to spend on his border wall.

Thanks for nothing, Republicans.

The House of Representatives passed a defense spending bill that seeks to limit Presidential authority when it comes to striking Iran and aideing the Saudi war on Yemen.

Donald Trump has endorsed a proposal by a Republican Senator to ban flag burning.

While he campaigned on a message of restraint, Donald Trump has largely adopted the interventionist foreign policies of his predecessors.

Instead of merely seeking to block the President’s declaration of an “emergency” at the southern border, Congress should instead significantly amend the National Emergencies Act.

While the rest of the world looks at other events, tensions are flaring in a long-standing global hot spot.

Terrorists aren’t walking across the desert to get here. Flying is so much easier.

The Trump Administration is reportedly preparing to withdraw the small contingent of American troops from Syria. If it actually happens, this would be a good move.

Thanks apparently to the fact that it remained unwilling to get in line behind the Trumpidians, the conservative owner of The Weekly Standard has shut the magazine down.

In what has to qualify as one of the most horrifying displays of moral depravity on the international stage, the Trump Administration is saying it doesn’t really care if the Saudi Crown Prince is a murderer or not.

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

Seventeen years ago, America was thrust into a war that seemingly has no end.

The first day of the Kavanaugh confirmation hearings was much ado about pretty much nothing, but then that can be used to describe a process whose outcome is pretty much foreordained.

In his final words to his fellow Senators, and to his fellow Americans, Senator John McCain left a legacy, and a challenge.