Outside the Beltway

His critics are focused on the wrong problem.

It turns out, he wasn’t all that truthful.

Vivek Ramaswamy’s national coming out party was, well, interesting.

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

Our Pacific territories are giving more than they’re getting.

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

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

Do we have to pick one?

Debt-trap diplomacy has finally come home to roost.

Another bill doomed to die.

Playing two-level games.

A more dangerous world is changing the relationship.

The one-time Juiceboxer is still annoying the mainstream media.

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

A 34-year CIA officer’s thoughts.

The threat is not idle and the options for responding are not good.

Can the unsustainable be sustained?

Eighteen HIMARS and what do you get? Years older and deeper in debt.

The President is getting hammered from all sides for stating the obvious.

What once seemed to be ‘saying the quiet part out loud’ is now administration policy.

After decades of exporting American jobs, corporations are bringing them home.

A 2020 blowout has long been presumed. But maybe it won’t happen.

The Speaker’s trip was reckless, needlessly escalating an already tense situation.

The competition is slowly ratcheting up.

Normalcy is not a bad thing.

The 79-year-old will be 80 on his next birthday.

They’re stealing our secrets and working to undermine our elections.

The President continues his recent penchant for saying the quiet part out loud.

The Biden Administration is constantly bragging about its actions against Russia. Is that wise?

The invasion has led to a series of proxy wars.

Vladimir Putin is banning commodity exports.

It’s hard to see how this crisis ends.

Pundits like Thomas Friedman struggle with premature prognostication.

A roundup of reflection on a somber anniversary.

American cheese will henceforth be known as liberté cheese. And not because of the metric system.

The postmortems are well underway.

A massive investment falls just short. This time.

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

His stale jokes about eating dog have drawn fire for years.

It’s time to up our protection game.

A little comparative politics.

Two new studies bring more questions than answers.

We are truly exceptional in how we choose the president.

Beijing is warning protesters in Hong Kong that it’s restraint in the face of protests is not without limit. However, it has few realistic options when it comes to how far it can go.

Andrew Yang has been a relatively unknown candidate for the Democratic nomination, but he’s slowly risen in the polls and raised more money in the second quarter than several experienced politicians.

Not content with taking a wrecking ball to America’s trans-Atlantic alliances, the President is attacking our trans-Pacific allies as well.

If Hong Kong’s leaders thought protesters would be satisfied with relatively minor concessions, they have significantly miscalculated the situation.

In the wake of massive protests, Hong Kong’s government begins to back away from support for a controversial extradition bill.

Expanding on events that have been going on for months, two oil tankers were attacked today near the entrance to the Persian Gulf