Outside the Beltway

As one does when one is confident of one’s policy choices.

Intellectuals are fleeing as Soviet-style censorship returns.

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

After a long wait, gays and lesbians in Australia have achieved marriage equality.

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

Unlike most world leaders, Pope Francis is wiling to call a genocide a genocide.

Some troubling, sad, and downright puzzling stories