Outside the Beltway

What comes next is anyone’s guess.

An increasingly undemocratic regional power is a necessary but unreliable partner.

Generations of young Americans weren’t alive or have no real memory of the event.

The parties do not control their labels.

Corruption charges against the former premier have sparked rioting.

Politics and justice are in tension.

My (apparently) annual reflections on “The content of their character” day

A more dangerous world is changing the relationship.

I don’t think that means what he thinks it means.

A welcome development in a long and bloody war.

The corrupt leader is back for a sixth term.

What will it take to end the cycle of violence?

CNN’s original anchorman is gone at 82.

The former President and his supporters are crying “weaponization of the justice system.”

Japan’s longest-serving prime minister was killed at a campaign rally. He was 67.

Half a century have passed since a botched burglary changed history.

A man who claims he was going to kill the Supreme Court Justice is in jail.

U.S. taxpayers have been spending $2 million a month for his protection.

A man most have never heard of is being reassessed more than a half-century after his death.

Vladimir Putin is banning commodity exports.

Once again, today marks a day where folks who would never have supported Dr. King decide they should praise him

Two stories about our culture’s focus on punishment

A roundup of reflection on a somber anniversary.

Shockingly, they’re not remotely equivalent.

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

The first modern stand-up comedian has died at 94.

The 16th time may be the charm for Robert Kennedy’s killer.

Could this be the straw that broke the camel’s back?

It is really so hard to understand that you don’t go on vacation during a massive disaster?

Mitch McConnell is testing out his spine again.

The iconoclastic journalist is out at the publication he founded.

The world’s worst COVID manager is now the world’s worst COVID patient.

The Natanz fuel enrichment site has been seriously damaged.

As scary as the Cold War was, it did reduce the silliness in American politics.

The Administration has done nothing about intelligence reports of a grave escalation from Moscow.

If the goal is to change politics, not just vent frustration, messaging is important.

Outside agitators, including white supremacist groups, are shaping public perception of the George Floyd protests.

The President’s unhinged Twitter rants have drawn a rebuke from an unlikely source.

A proportional response.

The real scandal isn’t the price tag but the beneficiary.

The chief diplomat of the United States isn’t very diplomatic (nor informative).

A legendary newsman has passed.

Claims by the President and Defense Department about the Iranian response to the Soleimani raid were untrue.

President Trump is making ridiculous threats against the regime in Iraq that are likely to draw it closer to Iran.

President Trump’s threat to attack Iranian cultural sites would most likely constitute a war crime if he actually carried it out.

In response to the American assassination of a top General, Iran has announced the end of yet more restrictions imposed by the 2015 nuclear deal.

The assassination of a top Iranian official on a visit to Baghdad is having the expected negative impact on our relationship with Iraq and the fight against ISIS.

An American drone strike has taken out the head of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard, a move likely to significantly increase tensions across the Middle East.

Five men have been sentenced to die by a Saudi Arabian court for the murder of Jamal Khashoggi, but the parties who are really responsible are getting off scot-free.