Outside the Beltway

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

Those seeking to escape the global south are facing resistance from DC to London to Paris.

The inevitable has happened.

World opinion and American opinion diverge significantly.

An extraordinary look into warning civilians about impending attacks.

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

Muddled reporting of a messy situation.

It’s . . . complicated.

What does “complete victory” look like?

A bad idea backed up by worse reasoning.

He’s turned Russia from a G-8 member to an international pariah.

The would-be President is floundering as he tries to position himself.

A wrongheaded if longstanding position.

Many in the Global South see the war very differently than we in the West.

President Biden’s dangerous gambit seems to have succeeded.

Tales of threat assessment and media reactions.

A controversial artillery round is being used effectively against Russian forces.

United States and People’s Republic of China forces are playing a dangerous game.

A brilliant national security leader is gone too soon.

Can the unsustainable be sustained?

Putin provides an example for a Politics 101 class.

It’s much bigger than it appears.

Evidence of mass atrocities across Ukraine continues to mount.

The Russian leader is very unlikely to be hauled before the Hague.

The Russian leader is isolated and under tremendous pressure.

The first shoe has dropped.

The much-anticipated escalation has happened. Now to see how the United States and its allies respond.

Russia’s leader sees the situation in the former Soviet Republic quite differently than the West.

A depressing magazine piece argues it is.

While well-intentioned, the Chairman’s actions were illegal and dangerous.

Stenography is not journalism.

It’s easy if you try.

A 7-2 decision by the highest court in the land is less decisive than the numbers suggest.

President Trump’s threat to attack Iranian cultural sites would most likely constitute a war crime if he actually carried it out.

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

Once again, President Trump is doing Vladimir Putin’s bidding.

The Trump Administration has apparently decided that it will not be providing the flu vaccine to migrants being held in facilities at the southern border.

The Supreme Court has ruled to keep the long-standing “dual sovereigns” exception to the Double Jeopardy Clause in place.

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.

While he campaigned on a message of restraint, Donald Trump has largely adopted the interventionist foreign policies of his predecessors.

This could be a very big deal – unless it isn’t.

His passing is a sad reminder of another era of the Republican Party.

A law professor asks some interesting questions, but ultimately not the right ones.

The Wikileaks founder has been detained by London authorities after 7 years hiding in Ecuador’s embassy.

The Israeli prime minister is engaging in a familiar but dangerous gambit to retain power.

Because of course he did.

Rather than pulling completely out of Syria the United States will be leaving behind a token force of about 200 troops. This is a mistake.

The situation in Venezuela entered a new stage yesterday as opposition leader Juan Guaidó claimed the nation’s Presidency.

As the midterm campaign draws to a close, Donald Trump is returning to the message of xenophobia and fear that dominated his Presidential campaign.

Overwhelmingly, legal experts agree that President Trump is wrong about birthright citizenship and the Fourteenth Amendment.