Outside the Beltway

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

He’s at 61 percent disapproval in the lastest Monmouth poll.

The inevitable has happened.

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

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.

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

Muddled reporting of a messy situation.

A poll on Israeli support.

Outsiders seem to want the impossible.

It’s . . . complicated.

A roundup of news and opinon.

Some people say there’s a reporter to blame.

Why it’s inevitable and what it means.

The mainstream media isn’t and shouldn’t become a counterpart to the right-wing infotainment complex.

Its economic bubble has burst, which may make them more dangerous.

The longtime politician and statesman is gone at 75.

Helping the victims of degree mills.

Xi’s government is taking a drastically different approach to the slowdown.

tl;dr: Trump is a nightmare client & nightmare clients don’t do well in criminal courts

It’s Nixon’s fault?

A new book looks at the confluence of geography and disadvantage.

If you thought the first term was bad, you ain’t seen nothing yet.

Americans have taken the dominance of the Women’s National Team for granted.

President Biden has ended a months-long impasse.

Should businesses have to include taxes and other fees in their advertised price?

Slavery is an inextricable part of our past, whether we want to talk about it or not.

The President is trying to change perceptions ahead of the election.

The silliness of singling out tiny measures.

Our car culture is killing us.

Eight state have withdrawn from a system to prevent illegal voting because of ignorance and agitation.

There’s been a load of compromising.

The US intelligence community and Silicon Valley are warning of a major threat.

The leveling of Bakhmut is the latest Russian atrocity.

Why Google isn’t AltaVista.

Debt-trap diplomacy has finally come home to roost.

The state Senate has amended the bill considerably.

Leaked intelligence intercepts take us inside the Ukrainian war room.

International law enforcement agencies have made hundreds of arrests.

A wildly ambitious goal.

Russia is circulating doctored versions of plans for a Ukrainian counteroffensive.

Some disturbing symbolism.

It’s taken more than two years to undo a silly, petty decision.

The company will debut an all-electric “Explorer” in Europe.

A wrongheaded if longstanding position.

Whither American civil religion?

Putin is losing but no one is winning.

The state of the union is . . . not good.