Outside the Beltway

The President is deeply leveraged with no escape in sight.

Yet another grim milestone.

Another avoidable milestone.

Looking back to a story from 2018.

Several trends are pointing in a new direction.

Brexit seems like it’s inevitable at this point, and that could set in motion a series of events that would mean the end of the United Kingdom.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, already facing a rough re-election battle is now dealing with a blackface controversy.

Canada is headed for a new election at the end of October as Justin Trudeau finds his government daling with a scandal.

President Trump continues to have an odd obsession with nuclear weapons.

Donald Trump isn’t just admiring dictators now, he’s acting like one.

A new poll shows solid support for free trade and opposition to the President’s tariffs, suggesting strongly that Trump is losing the public relations battle on this issue.

Economic analysts are growing increasingly worried that the President’s trade war could push the world economy into recession, and take the American economy along with it.

How insidious talking points spread in the modern media environment.

The latest Federal Reserve report on the economy shows Trump’s trade policies are having an increasingly negative impact.

President Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping have agreed to resume trade talks, but Trump’s ill-advised trade war will continue.

A new racist meme questioning Kamala Harris’s background is circulating on the Internet.

One photograph that has gone viral is standing as a visualization of the Trump Administration’s inhumane asylum policies.

The costs to the American economy of President Trump’s ill-advised trade war continue to add up.

While the world is largely focused on the much larger trade war with China, the United States is engaged in a similar battle with a nation that ought to be a natural ally.

A new report suggests that the Chinese movie-going market will surpass the American market in 2020.

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

The State Department has barred American Embassies from flying the Pride Flag during Pride Month as has been the custom for several years.

Donald Trump has betrayed the legacy and the sacrifices of the soldiers who fought their way onto the beaches of Normandy.

Thirty years ago, when the veterans of D-Day were still relatively young and still largely with us, President Reagan delivered one of the finest speeches of his Presidency.

This time: India.

The transatlantic rejection of elite consensus that began with Brexit continues.

In the latest development in the child sex abuse investigations in the Catholic Church in the United States, five former Priests in Michigan have been arrested on sex abuse charges.

China has retaliated for the tariffs that the President imposed late last week, and things look like they’re only going to get worse.

As he had threatened, President Trump has imposed new tariffs on Chinese goods, making a bad situation even worse.

Colorado Senator Michael Bennet is the latest entrant into the race for the Democratic nomination for President, and the field isn’t done growing.

The Trump Administration’s policies toward Iran aren’t going to work, but that’s because they aren’t supposed to work.

Further evidence that Sri Lankan authorities failed to act on warnings of rising Jihadism in their country.

Evidence is emerging that the Sri Lankan government had advance warning regarding potential terror attacks but failed to act on the information.

A very strange campaign trail gambit from India’s prime minister.

Some basics on the US party system.

A further attempt at explanation.

And a link to a worthwhile read.

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

Kevin Drum uses some clever sleight-of-hand to demonstrate a hard truth about the human condition.

More than any recent President, Donald Trump displays a tremendous amount ignorance about the world. Even worse is the fact that he seems proud of it.

As the shutdown drags on, the President is digging in his heels even further.

It is sincerely disturbing that the POTUS has this level of understanding of history and foreign policy.

In his annual message, Kim Jong Un sent a message to President Trump on denuclearization and the future of the Korean Peninsula.

One of the longest-lasting characters on The Simpsons may not be long for this world, but before we write him off perhaps we ought to stop and think.

The State of Texas is arguing in Court that a school district can force a student to stand for the Pledge of Allegiance. This is a blatant violation of the First Amendment.

Donald Trump’s trade war is helping China expand its diplomatic influence.

A significant advance for LGBT rights in the world’s most populous democracy.

The target is not just on illegal immigrants.

Yet another sign that the Singapore Summit didn’t really accomplish much of anything.

To the surprise of nobody other than, apparently, the President of the United States, the North Koreans are dragging their feet after getting what they wanted out of the Photo Op Summit in Singapore.