Outside the Beltway

The trend toward hard-right parties continues.

The Eurozone is falling further behind the United States.

Don’t get your hopes up.

The Pope is siding with evil.

The US Government has reluctantly decided to spell an ally’s name they way they prefer.

Wherein I examine UATX specifically.

The effective number of parties.

Not every argument can be tested on a Pinocchio scale.

Mostly about how not to do it.

An exceptional choice that breaks the recent tradition of politicos in the post.

Queen Elizabeth’s husband has died two months shy of his 100th birthday.

Multiple indicators point to a decline in the representativeness of the American system.

Gridlock doesn’t mean government stops. It just shifts who is governing.

Two new studies bring more questions than answers.

President Erdogan is playing a dangerous game.

Having failed to form governments after two successive elections, Israel is headed for a third election inside of a year.

How insidious talking points spread in the modern media environment.

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

Amusing results, and a history lesson, in a new poll

Seventy-five years ago today, American soldiers and our allies undertook an invasion that helped change the world.

No, abolishing the EC would not turn farmers into serfs.

The Supreme Court appears to be leaning toward letting a war memorial on public property stay in place.

The Supreme Court is set to hear oral argument in a case involving a World War I Memorial in the form of a cross on public land in Suburban Maryland.

With just over two months to go until the March 29th deadline, British Prime Minister Theresa May is no closer to a Brexit deal.

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

There’s a new church/state separation case on the Supreme Court’s docket.

The dispute over Ukraine between the Russian Orthodox Church and the Orthodox Patriarch is widening and nearing the point of a complete break.

The three-decade-old name dispute between Greece and the former Yugoslav state of Macedonia remains unresolved after Sunday’s referendum.

A group of lawsuits filed across the country are seeking to challenge the predominant method for allocation of Electoral College votes. These lawsuits appear to have little merit.

Greece and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia have apparently finally settled a three-decade old name dispute.

The actions of the Trump administration are helping Russian-EU relations (to the detriment of the US).

The incident involving Paul Ryan and the House Chaplain has raised some questions.

After a long wait, gays and lesbians in Australia have achieved marriage equality.

Centrist candidate Emmanuelle Macron scored a decisive win over the far-right Marine Le Pen in today’s runoff round of the French Presidential election.

Who knew Tim “The Toolman” Taylor was a columinist at NRO? (Will kids these days get that reference?).

Turkey’s government appears to have rebuffed a coup attempt, but questions remains about the stability of the government going forward.

By a narrow margin, British voters have chosen to send their nation, themselves, and indeed all of Europe into uncharted waters.

Marine Le Pen suffered setbacks in the second round of regional voting on Sunday, but the party still seems likely to become more popular in the coming years.

NATO is extending full membership to the tiny nation of Montenegro, and there doesn’t seem to be a good reason why they’re doing it.

The election of an anti-austerity government in Portugal is raising some concerns.

French officials have confirmed that Abdelhamid Abaaoud, the man believed to be the plotter of last Friday’s attacks in Paris, was killed in a police raid early Wednesday morning. This doesn’t mean authorities in France or elsewhere in Europe are any less concerned about future attacks, though.

France launched its first attacks against ISIS even as the investigation into Friday’s attacks continues, but it’s not clear that the retaliation really accomplished anything.

The news that at least some of the men who were involved in the terrorist attacks in Paris were among the refugees who have arrived in Europe since the summer is likely to complicate an already complicated situation.

Britain’s Labour Party has taken a hard tilt left with the election of Jeremy Corbyn as leader.

It’s easy to see what Greece thinks it still needs Europe, it’s more of puzzle why Europe thinks it needs to hang on to Greece.

Greece reached a new deal with European bankers that seems oddly similar to the one that voters rejected just a week ago.

In the past month, the Chinese stock market has lost more than 1/3 of its value.

Greek voters rejected the latest bailout package, but that only seems likely to make things even worse for them.