Outside the Beltway

A startling statistic.

The disease has killed three times the September 11 attacks in the last week.

Social distancing is helping but too many aren’t taking it seriously enough.

We’re passing grim milestones on a daily basis.

The President seems to be enjoying a mild rally effect.

The President tweeted, “We cannot let the cure be worse than the problem itself.”

Too many people still don’t understand the idea behind ‘flattening the curve.’ That includes our President.

Is this our Rock Hudson moment?

The greatest crisis the nation has faced in my lifetime.

It’s not clear what has been achieved.

Speaking of xenophobia.

The clear winner was Donald Trump.

America’s mayor talks like a snake oil salesman/conman.

A recurring source of friction in the OTB conversation.

A legendary newsman has passed.

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

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.

Especially Senate inaction.

New revelations punch a big hole in Republican defenses of the President.

As the walls close in, the President is growing more agitated.

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.

A public service announcement.

A conservative columnist argues the legitimacy of our system is in question.

Eighteen years after it started, the American public seems to be mostly ignoring the war in Afghanistan. But that isn’t an excuse for not bringing it to an end.

Well that didn’t take long.

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

President Trump took to Twitter late this morning to fire his third National Security Adviser.

President Trump announced late yesterday that he had called off secret meetings with the Taliban. The fact that they were even going to happen reveals yet again what’s wrong with his foreign policy.

Trump’s trip to El Paso in one photo and two videos.

President Trump’s nominee to be the next Director of National Intelligence is quite simply not qualified for the position he has been nominated to.

Once again, President Trump can’t help but make something meant to recognize real American heroes all about himself.

Is it possible, or even appropriate, to express pride in a country that is being led by a President who stands against everything this country stands for?

The Kaine-Udall amendment has met its predictable end.

Democrats are trying to rein in President Trump. It won’t work.

South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg laid out his foreign policy platform in a speech this week. It’s certainly an improvement over the current President.

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

Strong public records laws, not an excess of weirdness, has driven a sad meme.

Former Vice-President Joe Biden is calling for an end to American support for the Saudi war on Yemen.

The U.S. military will no longer release reports regarding the success, or failure, of the current strategy in Afghanistan.

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

Having lost to him, she’s an ineffective voice on the matter of Donald Trump.

President Trump has not surprisingly vetoed a Congressional resolution to limit American support for the Saudi war on Yemen. His defense for doing so is utterly absurd.

The legendary figure was in charge of strategic forecasting at the Pentagon for decades.

Instead of merely seeking to block the President’s declaration of an “emergency” at the southern border, Congress should instead significantly amend the National Emergencies Act.

Republicans face a choice in the coming days. Do they support the Constitution, or do they support Donald Trump? You can count on them making the wrong choice.

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.

The NYT has a useful classification of previous declarations (which does show the odd nature of Trump’s wall declaration).

Walter Jones, a former supporter of the Iraq War who became one of the most prominent anti-war voices in Congress, has passed away at the age of 76. He will be missed.

The arguments against withdrawing American forces from Afghanistan are becoming weaker and weaker.

Critics on both the Left and the Right rightly see an injustice here but the US Supreme Court allowed it to happen.