Outside the Beltway

Rest in Peace and Excelsior, Stan Lee!

Anti-Semitic violence has increased markedly over the past two years. So has the spread of far-right “anti-Globalist” conspiracy theories. This is not a coincidence.

As the midterm campaign draws to a close, Donald Trump is returning to the message of xenophobia and fear that dominated his Presidential campaign.

The man responsible for the deaths of eleven people in a Pittsburgh synagogue has been indicted on 44 counts by a Federal Grand Jury.

Trump’s words matter.

Charges have been filed against the man responsible for the massacre in Pittsburgh in both Federal and State court.

At least eight people are dead in a mass shooting at a Pittsburgh synagogue.

Should celebrities use their influence in partisan politics?

Another day, another plea agreement in the Mueller investigation. This one could prove to be problematic for the President.

With the Democratic Primary just days away, Andrew Cuomo’s Democratic challenger in New York is making headlines thanks to a rather odd culinary choice.

Congressman Keith Ellison won his party’s nomination for Minnesota Attorney General notwithstanding last-minute allegations of abuse against a former girlfriend.

The Republican Party’s nominee for Senator in Virginia really is as bad as you’ve heard, probably worse.

The Polish Government has amended a controversial law that sought to punish people for discussing the role that some Poles played in the Holocaust.

Virginia Republicans nominated arch-Trumpist Corey Stewart for the Senate three weeks ago. His campaign appears to be going about as well as expected.

Not surprisingly, John Bolton has some links to particularly shady people on the right.

A D.C. lawmaker latches on to an insane conspiracy theory.

Two seemingly contradictory essays out today highlight the exhausting political conversation environment.

Poland’s new Holocaust legislation just keeps sounding worse and worse.

Poland’s President has signed a controversial bill that purports to criminalize any effort to tie Poland to the Holocaust.

The Trump Administration has acted in a manner to create the impression that there is “no daylight” between the United States and Israel. This is a myth, and pursuing such a goal poses real dangers for America’s national interests.

The Polish Government appears ready to approve a law that seeks to whitewash the truth about the role that many Poles played in the Holocaust.

Americans were once largely united in their opinions about Israel and the Israeli/Palestinian conflict. That’s not the case anymore.

It couldn’t happen to a nicer domain. But it’s a slippery slope.

Donald Trump has had harsher things to say about Rosie O’Donnell than he did about the people responsible for yesterday’s violence. That says something about him.

Donald Trump is not Adolf Hitler. But that’s not the standard.

Distinguishing between anti-elite populism and coded anti-Semitism is next to impossible.

One of the last survivors of Israel’s founding generation has passed away.

My latest for War on the Rocks.

A man who survived great horrors to become a tireless witness for truth and advocate for human rights has passed away.

One week after the Brexit vote, both the Conservative and Labour parties find themselves in chaos.

The execution of a prominent Shi’ite cleric has led to a rapid deterioration of the relationship between Saudi Arabia and Iran.

Sarah Palin has joined such luminaries as Rush Limbaugh, Ann Coulter, Laura Ingraham, and former KKK Grand Wizard David Duke in endorsing Donald Trump’s anti-Muslim immigration plan.

Donald Trump’s speech yesterday at a meeting of the Republican Jewish Coalition was as bizarre as anything else we’ve seen from him.

Given his rhetoric, it’s fairly clear that Donald Trump is drawing from a poisonous political well. So there’s no point in failing to acknowledge reality.

The Holocaust was a very atypical case of genocide.

More than ever before, even mild criticism of Israel seems to be verboten among Republicans.

By inviting Prime Minister Netanyahu to address Congress, Republicans are damaging the U.S. relationship with Israel.

The men responsible for the Charlie Hebdo massacre are dead, but the problems for France, and the rest of Europe, may just be at the beginning.

Parties described as “far right” or “extreme right” have done very well in Europe’s most recent elections.

Does it really matter why Fraizer Glenn Miller murdered three people in Kansas?

While I concur with the “intent, justice, legality, and morality” of the decision, I nonetheless oppose it.

Vladimir Putin seems to be getting a lot of love from cultural conservatives in the United States.

Some Members of Congress are talking about pushing a bill imposing new sanction on Iran despite the deal reached in Geneva yesterday.

Some conservatives don’t seem too troubled by Vladimir Putin’s repression.