Outside the Beltway

The most important and controversial American diplomat of the postwar era is gone at 100.

A remarkable milestone.

The last Soviet leader is gone at 91.

The Western alliance is getting stronger in the face of Russian aggression.

Aung San Suu Kyi and her top officials are under house arrest.

This year’s Nobel Peace Prize Laureate comes from a part of the world that most people almost never think about.

An argument for an exception to the style guides.

The Russians are interfering in our electoral system again, and they’re using our own hyperpartisanship to accomplish their goals.

President Trump got his revised version of NAFTA, but Canadians are less positive about the United States than they have been in at least twenty years.

The military regime in Myanmar has sentenced two reporters to prison for reporting on the repression of the Rohingya Muslims.

Kofi Annan, who served as Secretary-General of the United Nations at the dawn of the “War On Terror,” has died at the age of 80.

South Korea’s President is saying that Kim Jong Un has renewed his supposed commitment to ‘denuclearization,’ but it isn’t at all clear what that means.

One day after canceling his summit meeting with Kim Jong Un, President Trump is suggesting it may be back on. Before it happens, though, there ought to be far more adequate preparation.

There are reasons to be skeptical about the dawning of a new age on the peninsula.

Nine years later, at least one member of the Norwegian Nobel Committee is admitting what seemed at the time a rather obvious fact.

Will Joe Arpaio cause the GOP to lose an otherwise winnable Senate race?

President Trump is apparently pressuring the President of South Korea to give him the credit for talks between North and South Korea that the United States isn’t involved in at all.

One of the last survivors of Israel’s founding generation has passed away.

A man who survived great horrors to become a tireless witness for truth and advocate for human rights has passed away.

President Obama is rewarding unqualified hacks who raised huge sums for his campaign with ambassadorships.

The most important leader to come out of Africa in the 20th Century, and perhaps in all of history, has died.

An agency has won the Nobel Peace Prize for something that hasn’t happened yet.

The Have A Blast Edition OTB Caption Contest^TM is now over.

Providing a little context for Pope Francis’ background+Erick Erickson needs to learn a little history.

The anti-communist icon is once again in hot water for making idiotic comments.

Jimmy Carter’s ex-presidency has lasted the equivalent of 26 Iranian hostage crises.

From one Nobel Peace Prize winner to another.

Despite our rather obvious problems, we’re in great shape compared to the rest of the developed world and, especially, to even our fairly recent ancestors.

A bomb blast in Oslo’s government center has killed at least two people and a presumably related shooting spree at a nearby children’s camp are being investigated as terrorist related.

The United States is facing a serious public relations problem among the Egyptian people.

The First Base Edition OTB Caption Contest^TM is now over.

Like it or not, human rights is only at the top of the agenda for countries that otherwise don’t much matter.

Nobel Laureate Liu Xiaobo has dedicated his Nobel Peace Prize to the victims of the June 1989 massacre in Tianamen Square. Proving again that the events of that day still live on in the memory of many Chinese people.