Outside the Beltway

The live coverage of Wednesday’s assault on American democracy underplayed its seriousness.

There’s a word for people who use outrageous violence to terrorize.

The man behind the 1998 embassy attacks is dead.

They are standing by as ordered.

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

If President Trump expected to get a political bump from the death of the leader of ISIS, he is most likely going to be disappointed.

There’s apparently big news in the fight against ISIS.

President Trump’s sudden decision to withdraw troops from Syria isn’t receiving much public support.

ISIS is quickly taking advantage of the abrupt American withdrawal from northern Syria.

As the Turkish invasion of northern Syria continues, Donald Trump responds with basically nothing.

President Trump is basically saying he does not care if ISIS prisoners return to Europe to commit terror attacks.

Eighteen years after the September 11th attacks, it’s becoming harder to remember what the world used to be like.

A Federal Judge in Virginia has found the terrorist watch list unconstitutional.

Another day, another mass shooting and, as is becoming all too common in this country, this one appears to have been racially motivated.

A strangely under-publicized story.

Almost eighteen years after the greatest terrorist attack on our country, we haven’t taken care of those who risked it all.

John Walker Lindh, the so-called “American Taliban,” has been released from prison but the war in which he was captured goes merrily along.

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

Sunday’s attacks in Sri Lanka make it clear that the claim that ISIS has been defeated are nowhere close to being true.

In military justice Bizarroland, Rep Duncan Hunter intentionally commits “reverse UCI.”

Further evidence that Sri Lankan authorities failed to act on warnings of rising Jihadism in their country.

ISIS is claiming responsibility for Sunday’s attacks in Sri Lanka, a strong sign that the claims by the Trump Administration that it had largely defeated the group were not true.

Evidence is emerging that the Sri Lankan government had advance warning regarding potential terror attacks but failed to act on the information.

Blasts at Christian churches and tourist hotels appear to be a coordinated terrorist attack.

Strategic move or pointless provocation?

Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu is cutting short his US trip to deal with what his government is calling a Hamas attack.

Free expression sometimes enables horrible crimes. How does a free society deal with that tension?

Another white supremacist attack raises disturbing questions about our information environment.

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.

A Coast Guard officer and aspiring domestic terrorist was arrested late yesterday for plotting to kill Democratic politicians and members of the media.

President Trump has lost another one of his top advisers on the fight against ISIS.

America’s tradition of unlimited free expression increases the danger of violence.

Seventeen years ago, America was thrust into a war that seemingly has no end.

Through our so-called allies in Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, the United States is helping to destroy Yemen. It’s time for our support for that war to come to an end.

The FBI committed gross malfeasance in building a case against the widow of Omar Mateen. She nonetheless bears significant blame for 53 deaths.

Under the proposal certain visa-seekers (such as China and India) would have to have their social media presence scrutinized.

The Nigerian terrorist group has released an unknown number of the 110 girls kidnapped from a boarding school last month.

Service members deployed to Algeria, Burundi, Cameroon, Chad, Congo, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Libya, Mali, Niger, Somalia, Sudan, South Sudan, Tunisia, and Uganda qualify.

A disturbing report in the Miami Herald highlights the farce into which this trial has descended.

Continuing a long-standard tradition, the Trump Administration claims it doesn’t need to get legal authorization to keep American troops in Syria.

A horrible terror attack in Egypt.

A month that was highlighted by the capture of the ISIS capital city of Raqqa ends with an apparent lone wolf ISIS-inspired attack in New York City

Another day, another Trump lie.

America has become involved in conflicts around the world, largely without the knowledge of the American people or the consent of their representatives, and it doesn’t appear that’s going to end anytime soon.

The capital of the purported caliphate declared by ISIS has apparently fallen, but that doesn’t mean the end of ISIS. In fact, it may make the group more dangerous.

The London subway was hit by a bomb during the morning rush hour. Authorities are treating it as a terrorist attack.

At some point, it will be time to move on.

Based on initial reports, Trump’s Afghanistan policy looks a lot like what we’ve seen for the past sixteen years.

At least thirteen dead in an apparent terrorist attack in Spain.