Outside the Beltway

Just about two days after setting off bombs in New Jersey and New York City, a suspect is in custody.

An explosion that ended up injuring 29 people interrupted an otherwise quiet Saturday evening in the Chelsea neighborhood in New York City.

Donald Trump’s campaign is apparently finally acknowledging reality, although its claim that birtherism originated with the Clinton campaign in 2008 does not comport with the facts.

The sense of national ‘unity’ that existed in the wake of the September 11th attacks didn’t last for very long.

The United States and Russia have reached an agreement to end fighting in Syria, but it seems unlikely to succeed given that it doesn’t involve the parties actually doing the fighting.

Another set of revelations shows that the Clinton campaign has yet to put the email story behind it.

As expected, John McCain easily defeated his primary opponent yesterday.

Things aren’t pretty inside the House of Trump these days.

President Obama’s ISIS policy has been far from perfect, but to call him a “Founder” of ISIS is to ignore both history and reality.

My latest for War on the Rocks.

Looking at the Electoral College, it’s already apparent that Donald Trump’s campaign faces a daunting, perhaps impossible, path to victory.

Of course Donald Trump responded to a Gold Star Father in the worst possible way.

Hillary Clinton delvers a largely successful acceptance speech that caps off a convention that ran far smoother than its Republican counterpart.

Donald Trump started out his campaign by telling us that the American dream is dead, and he returned to those dark and pessimistic themes in his acceptance speech last night.00

A night of terror mars Bastille Day celebrations in France.

President Obama will leave office as the first two term President who presided over eight years of war. It didn’t start with him and it won’t end with him.

The Dallas shooting spree ended with police killing the perpetrator with a drone. I’m okay with that.

American forces will continue to stay in Afghanistan well after Barack Obama leaves office thanks to a new policy announced today.

Hillary Clinton’s extreme carelessness with classified information probably won’t cost her the election, but it should.

Marines, especially female Marines, will be allowed to be heavier in the new year.

The presumptive Democratic nominee for president won’t be going to jail. But we knew that.

The wave of Ramadan attacks continues, including a strike near the second holiest site in Islam.

My latest for The National Interest has posted.

A third major terrorist attack inside of a week.

In a sign that the ongoing F.B.I. investigation into her use of a private email server and handling of classified information is coming to an end, the former Secretary of State was interviewed by Federal Agents today.

A third major ISIS-inspired or planned attack in three weeks.

A new poll finds strong public support for enhanced background checks and barring people on Federal watch lists from purchasing weapons.

Unlike previous civil rights changes, this one came without much fanfare, fight, or even discussion.

A massive attack hits Istanbul’s airport.

As with each previous committee that investigated the 2012 attack on the U.S outpost in Benghazi, the House Select Committee finds that mistakes were made but no evidence of wrongdoing or cover-ups.

The Marine Corps has removed the word “man” from nineteen of its military occupation specialty titles, leaving only a handful of iconic instances intact.

Donald Trump has had a bad June, and it’s showing in the poll numbers.

A revered Republican foreign policy guru has endorsed the Democratic nominee for president.

Stopping the next Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, Syed Farook, or Omar Mateen is likely to be a lot more difficult than the politicians on either side of the aisle are leading us to believe.

As expected, the Senate rejected four gun control measures introduced in the wake of the attack in Orlando.

Bernie Sanders doesn’t seem to realize that the political world has already moved past the race for the Democratic nomination.

Donald Trump’s latest outbursts are causing Republicans to move away from him faster than you can say “electoral disaster.”

The Senate has passed an amendment to a military spending bill that would require women to register for the draft.

Donald Trump has insinuated that President Obama is not fighting the War On Terror aggressively because he somehow identifies with terrorists.

Donald Trump responded to the attack on the Pulse nightclub by renewing his call to ban members of an entire religion from coming to the United States.

An overnight shooting at a nightclub in Orlando, Florida has left 20 people dead and at least 42 injured.

A commenter asks what the consequences ought be for Clinton’s transgressions.

On his trip to Hanoi, President announced the latest sign that the Vietnam War is finally something both nations have manged to put behind them.

A respected scholar has an interesting suggestion for fighting the Forever War.