Outside the Beltway

The 21st century’s most brutal conflict and the laws of war.

The popular app is influencing the opinions of its young user base.

The inevitable has happened.

World opinion and American opinion diverge significantly.

Article 99 meets Catch-22.

Sorry, Senator Rubio.

The cease-fire will end. What follows is not at all clear.

A bizarre statement by the head of the Roman Catholic church.

Hamas gets rewarded for its crimes.

It’s likely legal and almost certainly won’t matter.

Tehran-backed forces are routinely shooting at American forces.

An extraordinary look into warning civilians about impending attacks.

The laws of armed conflict aren’t designed for this war.

Pick a side. No nuance allowed.

Hamas continues to cynically manipulate the world’s humanitarian impulses.

We finally have a Chief of Naval Operations but the crisis in the top ranks continues.

When the intellectually correct answer isn’t politically possible.

Politics makes strange bedfellows.

Muddled reporting of a messy situation.

Trump is making verbal gaffes while making fun of Biden’s verbal gaffes.

A poll on Israeli support.

What comes next is anyone’s guess.

It’s quite the week for politicians with generic names nobody has ever heard of.

When the obvious is controversial.

The war in Israel is in danger of expanding.

America’s involvement in the Israeli and Ukrainian war efforts is more than advertised.

The press really needs to stop trying to make fetch happen.

Outsiders seem to want the impossible.

Demonstrators once again breached Hill security.

The timing is not auspicious.

A high-stakes move.

It’s . . . complicated.

What does “complete victory” look like?

Ali Qadhi, who led the terrorist attack on Israel last week, has been killed by the IDF. So have fleeing civilians.

The choice is between competing disasters.

Amid warnings of war crimes, no mercy is forthcoming.

The killing goes on.

Our limited attention spans.

A roundup of news and opinon.

It is escalating quickly.

The 50th anniversary of the Yom Kippur war sees a re-escalation.

A reckless campaign of violence has now targeted American journalists.

The Natanz fuel enrichment site has been seriously damaged.

Reversing decades of policy, the Trump Administration reversed decades of policy on settlements in disputed territory.

Faced with an election next week, Israel’s Prime Minister is pushing a settlement plan that would be an utter disaster.

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.

Recent comments by the U.S. Ambassador to Israel make it clear that the United States cannot be considered a neutral party In the Middle East peace process.

Jared Kushner’s long-awaited Middle East peace plan is still awaiting release, but it already appears to be dead on arrival.

Its explanation for why its paywall is coming down 3 days leads us to an obvious question.