Outside the Beltway

Rich Lowry puts preferred outcomes over constitutional process.

Protests in Hong Kong have been going on for nine weeks now, but they are reaching a point where the patience of the leaders in Beijing is being tested.

Joe Biden delivered his first major foreign policy address of the campaign. It’s not perfect, but it’s better than what we have right now.

A leading same-sex marriage advocate is pushing back on the trans movement.

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.

It’s been a rough two years under Trump, but America’s institutions are surviving.

The President is an ignoramus and a blowhard and a petulant child but he’s operating within the Constitutional limits of his office.

Current attempts to take power away from the state executive branch illustrates a lot of what I have been writing about for years.

Yes, there can be real problems with election activities, but that does not excuse POTUS’ lies about fraud.

Trump, Scott, and their allies are not doing America any favors.

President Trump is choosing money and moral cowardice over human life in his response to the disappearance of Jamal Khashoggi.

Venezuela’s President Nicolás Maduro survived an apparent, albeit amateurish, assassination attempt yesterday in what could be a sign of underlying instability in Venezuela.

The Strzok hearing provides a return to this timeworn favorite.

Trump’s withdrawal of his invitation to the Philadelphia Eagles is just another example of his populistic nationalism. (And it isn’t healthy).

While longtime supporters have turned on the legendary attorney over his support of Donald Trump, he’s been astonishingly consistent.

There won’t be any tanks, but it looks like President Trump will get his military parade.

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

China’s Xi Jinping solidified his hold on power well into the next decade over the weekend.

President Trump’s military parade would come with a not insignificant cost.

Charles Manson, who led a cult-like “family” to a series of murders in 1969 and subsequently spent more than 40 years in prison, has died at the age of 83.

Catalonia voted overwhelmingly for independence from Spain, but it’s not at all clear that the vote will amount to anything.

The I Did It My Way Edition OTB Caption Contest^TM is now over.

Turkey’s government appears to have rebuffed a coup attempt, but questions remains about the stability of the government going forward.

Donald Trump continues his war on freedom of the press and reporters who cover him critically by barring The Washington Post from covering campaign events.

Donald Trump’s open contempt for the Rule of Law and Freedom of the Press should disqualify him from being considered an acceptable candidate for President.

Should Donald Trump be classified as a fascist?

Disturbing developments on the part of the Ukrainian government.

Fresh off an election victory, British Prime Minister David Cameron is set to propose a series of new measures to crackdown on extremism that raise serious civil liberties concerns.

Some thoughts on a column by Roger Noriega on the Obama administration and Latin America,

Modern Singapore’s founder passed away at age 91 earlier this week.

Well, so much for that “people’s revolt” that brought down a military dictator.

Twenty-five years after his seminal “End of History” article, Francis Fukuyama reflects on its legacy.

The events of the last week in Egypt raise a whole host of questions.

Turkey has had along and ongoing struggle with democratic consolidation.

Has the Arab Spring come to Turkey?

Silly things members of Congress say (plus musings on authoritarianism).

The notion that guns prevent tyranny is based on fantasy and movies, not reality.

President Fernando Lugo of Paraguay was impeached and removed from office this week.

Another local official wants to join the War On Big Soda.

The heady days of revolution in Egypt have been replaced with the cold light of political reality.

China’s government may be more “efficient,” but it’s hardly a model for the rest of the world.

Why we shouldn’t be surprised that police are using tools of violence against protestors.

We’re learning more about the Obama Administration’s decision to kill Anwar al-Awlaki

Does the state have the right to regulate how many people you invite to your home?

Francis Fukuyama: “In the developed world, we take the existence of government so much for granted that we sometimes forget how difficult it was to create.”