Outside the Beltway

A series of scandals at Oxfam and other charitable organizations raise troubling questions.

My latest for The National Interest takes a contrarian view on the new National Defense Strategy.

The military options thus far presented for dealing with the DPRK have not been satisfying.

When it comes to foreign policy, Donald Trump has no over-arching philosophy and little knowledge, so don’t expect anything approaching a coherent doctrine from his Administration.

The numbers aren’t looking good for Republican prospects in this year’s midterm elections.

Yesterday was the seventy-sixth anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor. For most Americans, though, it was just another day. That’s only natural.

Roy Moore wishes he was back in the days of cotton when families were close and African-Americans were enslaved.

Another mass shooting.

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.

New polling shows increased support for gun control measures in the wake of Las Vegas, but it’s not likely to last and it won’t lead to any significant action by Congress.

A sign of hope that Alabama voters could end up rejecting the far-right theocratic politics of Roy Moore? Possibly.

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

Trump isn’t going to win any regional popularity awards in LA.

Who could have predicted we would be where we are at the moment in terms of racial politics and the White House?

President Trump’s reaction to the terror attack in Spain included an easily debunked lie about one of America’s most decorated Generals.

Authorities are being second-guessed over their handling of Saturday’s protests. Virginia gun laws are the more obvious problem.

Hatred and violence in Charlottesville, Virginia.

Vice-President Pence is advocating the admission of Georgia into NATO. That would be a bad idea.

Donald Trump is the most unpopular incoming President in more than eighty years.

Last week was one of the worst week’s the still-young Trump Administration has faced, and new tracking poll data is starting to reflect that.

Trump’s job approval numbers continue to sink.

Republicans are finding that their constituents aren’t very happy about the passage of the American Health Care Act.

President Trump’s comments about Andrew Jackson and the Civil War reveal something about how he thinks, and it’s not good.

The FBI Director faced a damned if you do, damned if you don’t choice.

Despite American air strikes, ISIS is expanding its power amid the chaos in Libya.

Just about two months into office, Donald Trump’s job approval number are worse than any newly elected President since World War II.

Donald Trump isn’t going to change, and that’s bad news for all of us.

Ben Carson is back and he’s saying some pretty dumb things again.

Donald Trump took to Twitter again this morning with predictable results.

President Trump has issued a revised ban on travel from six predominantly Muslim nations.

My latest is out at RealClearDefense.

Donald Trump’s job approval numbers are the lowest for any new President since World War II. That doesn’t bode well for his Administration’s future.

After just over a week in office, Donald Trump already has a negative job approval number. That’s a modern record.

Delegating the morning briefing to advisors isn’t actually that unusual.

Three of the top four national security positions in Donald Trump’s Cabinet will be filled by retired Generals. This isn’t necessarily a good thing.

The election is now fifty-six days away and, while the race is tighter than it has been, it’s still one in which Hillary Clinton has seemingly all the advantages.

Clinton stumbles and leaves an event early, leading to the news that her campaign has been withholding health information from the press.

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

House Republicans are vowing to continue their investigations even if Hillary Clinton wins the White House.

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.

A horrific night in Dallas.

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

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.

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.

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