Outside the Beltway

SLT guests on Peaceful Political Revolution in America to talk American democracy.

The flurry of news around the new variant is dizzying.

Our ostensibly ally is working with our chief adversary against our interests.

The effective number of parties.

Modern and Pfizer are your best bets, but most of the world has had other vaccines.

Counting is not necessarily as straightforward as it may seem.

There are no good options, only bad and worse ones.

Russia’s leader sees the situation in the former Soviet Republic quite differently than the West.

Russia may invade Ukraine again. The United States would prefer otherwise.

Children are starving and it’s partly our fault.

Barbados provides an illustration of a frequently misunderstood concept.

The language is going to iel in a handcart.

Yet another COVID-19 strain has emerged.

A possible murder plot in Colombia embedded into a problematic multi-decade narrative.

The Biden admin is about to take a demilitarized group off the terrorist list and some people aren’t happy about it.

A depressing magazine piece argues it is.

Speaking of elections.

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

A blast from the past.

If it’s made in France, it’s “sparkling wine.”

Humanitarian instincts rightly trumped security concerns.

An unsatisfying first(?) response.

For anyone who might be interested.

We’re not getting Afghans—or even American citizens trapped there—out fast enough.

US health agencies are clashing with the World Health Organization on the question.

The mirage of semi-order faded quickly.

The right questions are: 1) why do some some on the right like him, and 2) should this concern us all?

The collapse is coming even faster than feared.

Hungary is part of a broader global trend, but the real issue isn’t Hungary, it is the Americans who praise Hungary.

Some recent news items that add to concern about American democracy.

The Philippine president is taking a novel approach to the problem.

Our last-ditch airstrikes only postpone the inevitable.

And so general discussion of vaccine passports and requirements in the US.

Part of a disturbing trend.

He was both the youngest and oldest man to run the Pentagon.

Or, you know, not.

Israel’s long national nightmare is over. Or is it?

A major first step to solving a longstanding global issue.

SLT talking Colombia.

What constitutes a “low income” or “high income” country?

Mostly about how not to do it.

The numbers are staggering and getting worse.

The US has more shots available than willing arms while those in the developing world are dying.

The President has overturned decades of US foreign policy and alienated a NATO ally for, well, reasons.

Yes, it’s complicated, but it is also time to stop relying on cliches.

President Biden has a second chance to do the right thing.

Iran’s top nuclear facility is offline again.

Stenography is not journalism.

A problematically wide-open election in difficult times.

More than 73 percent of Britons will be vaccinated or previously-infected by Monday.