Outside the Beltway

No. Just no.

Thomas Modly, the acting Secretary of the Navy, has embarrassed himself and must go.

A series of Friday night firings.

A public health crisis turns into a public relations crisis.

We’re passing grim milestones on a daily basis.

Despite our poor showing against COVID-19, we have the best infrastructure in place.

Dueling Washington Post op-eds are sowing confusion.

Whocouldanode?

A proportional response.

If a global pandemic and economic crisis weren’t enough excitement . . . .

As if the country needed more turmoil.

Another milestone has been reached.

It’s not clear what has been achieved.

Because you needed one more thing to worry about.

Moscow helped Trump in 2016. Do they want him back?

Speaking of xenophobia.

Our intelligence professionals are issuing a familiar warning.

A book out today makes an odd case.

Tweets aren’t policy, unless they are.

Nobody even agrees on what baselines to use.

A smaller staff is arguably a good idea. But not this way.

Claims by the President and Defense Department about the Iranian response to the Soleimani raid were untrue.

More on presidential nonsense with a brief diversion into blogging philosophy.

A bold new plan for security in the Middle East.

The 2016 frontrunners at this stage won their nominations easily. But that’s often not the case.

President Trump is making ridiculous threats against the regime in Iraq that are likely to draw it closer to Iran.

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

In response to the American assassination of a top General, Iran has announced the end of yet more restrictions imposed by the 2015 nuclear deal.

The assassination of a top Iranian official on a visit to Baghdad is having the expected negative impact on our relationship with Iraq and the fight against ISIS.

Despite Pompeo’s assurances, we are already seeing consequences for the Suleimani killing.

If your case needs a 9/11 boost, perhaps your case is weak.

An American drone strike has taken out the head of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard, a move likely to significantly increase tensions across the Middle East.

Policies towards Iran and NK are both a mess.

More evidence that Trump really doesn’t know what he is doing. (Or just doesn’t care).

With one speech, Kim Jong-Un has demonstrated the Trump Administration’s North Korea policy to have been an utter failure.

Amid protests over American airstrikes, the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad has become a target.

Notwithstanding Russia’s weak position vis a vis the west, It’s Putin who seems to be winning.

New reports indicate that the North Koreans never took any of the steps to reduce their research programs that President Trump claimed they did.

The DPRK is promising a “gift” to the United States. The only question seems to be what form it will take.

Thursday night’s Democratic debate drew the lowest numbers of any of this season’s debates.

By the end of today, Donald Trump will most likely be the third President of the United States to be impeached by the House of Representatives.

A new report details the extent to which the eighteen-year Afghanistan War has been marked by mistakes, and lies by the government to cover-up the fact that we went to war without a clear understanding of what we were doing.

WIth North Korea’s end of the year deadline for progress on talks quickly approaching, it is clear that the Trump Administration’s policies with regard to the DPRK have failed.

Ted Cruz is the latest Republican Senator to repeat discredited Kremlin-backed conspiracy theories about Ukrainian interference in the 2016 election.

Questions linger after a shooting leaves three people and the shooter dead in an incident at one of the nation’s largest Naval facilities.

With her eyes on her political future in a GOP dominated by Trumpism, Nikki Haley is attempting to rewrite the history of one of the most significant events of her time as Governor of South Carolina.

With the clock ticking down to the end of the year and a deadline imposed by the DPRK on talks with the U.S., the Trump Administration’s North Korea policy is in a shambles.

Much like the President they obsequiously defend, Republicans have become useful idiots in Russia’s war on Western liberal democracy.