Outside the Beltway

A slight variant of the uniform from World War II and Korea is coming to a soldier near you.

One hundred years after the end of World War One, the forces that led to it are waking up from a long slumber.

My latest for War on the Rocks.

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

The world loses a genuine war hero.

One of the people most responsible for the personal computer revolution has passed away at the far-too-young age of 65.

Once the iconic American retail store, Sears now faces the possibility that it may end up fading into history.

President Trump got his revised version of NAFTA, but Canadians are less positive about the United States than they have been in at least twenty years.

President Trump is alienating our allies and making friends with dictators, and the world is responding as you might expect they would.

Senator John McCain has died at the age of 81,

Kofi Annan, who served as Secretary-General of the United Nations at the dawn of the “War On Terror,” has died at the age of 80.

Jobs growth fell short of expectations in July but was still relatively decent. Wage growth, however, remains stubbornly stagnant.

President Trump’s summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin was an even bigger disaster than anticipated.

The NATO Summit is going about as well as can be expected.

There’s a reason President Trump’s Supreme Court picks are “normal” in a way his national security and economic teams are not.

A milestone for the nation’s oldest service academy, founded in 1802.

The Polish Government has amended a controversial law that sought to punish people for discussing the role that some Poles played in the Holocaust.

Contrary to what many people have claimed, the Supreme Court’s decision in Trump v. Hawaii did not overturn one of the most controversial decisions in its history.

In a ruling that largely relies on the authority granted by Congress to the President to regulate immigration on national security grounds, the Supreme Court has upheld the final version of the Administration’s travel ban.

The Vietnam memorial helped heal a gaping wound. What purpose will this one serve?

Seemingly out of nowhere yesterday, the Commander-in-Chief ordered the Pentagon to create a fifth service.

President Trump continues to dismiss concerns about Kim Jong Un’s brutality, and to lavish praise on a man who has a considerable amount of blood on his hands.

Donald Trump’s approach to international trade has nothing to with economics and everything to do with politics and the culture war he loves to provoke.

The Federal Government will borrow more than $1 trillion this year for the first time in more than a half-decade.

The 41st President has been hospitalized in Maine.

Conservatives claim to support freedom of speech and freedom of expression, but they’ve utterly failed that test when it comes to their reaction to players who peacefully and respectfully kneel during the National Anthem.

The Internet is a global platform. Should every country’s laws apply to everyone using it?

New York attorney Aaron Schlossberg found himself on the receiving end of an Internet firestorm this week. His case raises some interesting questions about Internet vigilantism.

The Trump White House has leaked more than any in recent memory. Some of the leakers have explained what motivates them.

Republicans are worried about 2018, and they’re even more worried that they have a President who is refusing to acknowledge political reality.

President Trump’s job approval numbers remain historically low.

Yet more troubling news about the proposed citizenship question on the 2020 Census.

The United States has joined Great Britain and much of Europe in retaliating against Russia for the attempted murder of a former Russian spy on British soil.

From Europe to the Middle East, to Asia, America’s allies are concerned about what the selection of John Bolton as National Security Adviser means going forward. They should be, and so should every American.

There won’t be any tanks, but it looks like President Trump will get his military parade.

Responsible governance from the Golden State?

Was the 2016 contest unique, or are we destined to forever vote against the candidate we hate most?

President Trump continues to make irresponsible and dangerous threats in connection with American policy toward North Korea.

Elliot Cohen laments the lack of steel in the spine of the statesmen, diplomats, soldiers, and thinkers of the current generation.

Poland’s new Holocaust legislation just keeps sounding worse and worse.

Republicans spent the eight years of Obama Administration railing against fiscal irresponsibility. Now that they have power, they’re the ones being fiscally irresponsible.

Of course Donald Trump wants a military parade, it would be consistent with his delusions of grandeur.

Poland’s President has signed a controversial bill that purports to criminalize any effort to tie Poland to the Holocaust.

One of the oddities of military culture is the constan

Senator Mark Warner, Vice-Chairman of the Select Committee on Intelligence, says, “We Need Revolution, Not Just Evolution” in Security Clearances.”

Donald Trump lies about even the most trivial matters, How are we supposed to believe anything else he says?

The Polish Government appears ready to approve a law that seeks to whitewash the truth about the role that many Poles played in the Holocaust.

Yesterday was the seventy-sixth anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor. For most Americans, though, it was just another day. That’s only natural.

Most Americans are unlikely to remember John Anderson, but he was a harbinger of things to come.