Outside the Beltway

Germany’s economy is among the worst in the OECD.

A reminder that all choices are political to one degree or the other.

The New York Times looks into ties between a DC area law school and the Supreme Court.

Whither American civil religion?

Alliance leaders have significantly different priorities regarding the conflict.

President Biden’s dangerous gambit seems to have succeeded.

An object lesson on the challenges of alliance politics.

That time the Nazis made a movie about the Titanic.

Knowing what FNC is likely saying without watching FNC.

The times they are a changing.

Moscow is playing a very strange game.

Western powers may be at odds with the people doing the fighting and dying.

Vladimir Putin is banning commodity exports.

It’s hard to see how this crisis ends.

Actions deemed unthinkable days earlier are suddenly mandatory.

The ferocity of the global reaction to Putin’s invasion is stunning.

NATO has stepped up in a pleasantly surprising way to resist the Ukraine invasion.

The first shoe has dropped.

The veteran journalist and Fox News original is gone at 75.

A blast from the past.

What we know of the American servicemembers killed.

An interesting proposal to improve tax collection.

Not of governance.

The venerable military newspaper lives to print another day.

Some informed speculation.

Young people acting selfishly is a fact of life.

Only the best people.

Our intelligence professionals are issuing a familiar warning.

Much like the President they obsequiously defend, Republicans have become useful idiots in Russia’s war on Western liberal democracy.

French President Emmanuel Macron declared that the NATO alliance is suffering brain death due to President Trump’s neglect and lack of leadership.

Thirty years ago today, history took off in a brand new direction.

Trying to nail down some basics about a very complicated situation.

Dozens of well-off students from the Chicago area are getting college subsidies.

New polling suggests that the President may not be benefiting from the relatively healthy economy as much as expected.

The State Department has barred American Embassies from flying the Pride Flag during Pride Month as has been the custom for several years.

Thirty years ago, when the veterans of D-Day were still relatively young and still largely with us, President Reagan delivered one of the finest speeches of his Presidency.

Herman Wouk, best known for works such as The Caine Mutiny, The Winds of War, and War and Remembrance, has died at the age of 103.

“We have to be careful in balancing big dreams and bold ideas with also recognizing that typically change happens in steps.”

The Trump Administration continues to drive a wedge between the United States and Europe, can it ever be repaired?

Theresa May is trying to save a Brexit deal that appears to be becoming more doomed by the day.

George H.W. Bush,, who served his nation as a warrior, Congressman, Ambassador, Vice-President, and President, has died at the age of 94.

British voters appear to be regretting their decision to leave the European Union, but it may be too late to stop the process.

In addition to being mandated by the Constitution, birthright citizenship goes to the core of what it means to be an American.

Angela Merkel announced yesterday that she would step aside as Chancellor at the end of her current term. What that means for the short and long term future of Germany and Europe is unclear.

The world loses a genuine war hero.

Donald Trump is a coward and an apologist for evil around the world.

President Trump is alienating our allies and making friends with dictators, and the world is responding as you might expect they would.

Thanks to Donald Trump, the happiest man in the world right now is Vladimir Putin.

The new American Ambassador to Germany is making what clearly seem to be inappropriate statements about domestic politics in Europe.