Outside the Beltway

A competent leader versus a lunatic would seem an easy choice. Alas.

Ali Qadhi, who led the terrorist attack on Israel last week, has been killed by the IDF. So have fleeing civilians.

President Biden has ended a months-long impasse.

Another entry into the ongoing performative politics of Ron DeSantis.

A legal defense without merit.

The process is much more stage managed than advertised.

A wrongheaded if longstanding position.

The appetite for more resources approaches infinity.

Michael Barone on out-migration from some Blue states.

The elite consensus that free trade would bring them around is gone.

We likely won’t know on Election Night.

The Nebraska Republican got an offer he can’t refuse.

As more details emerge about the documents he stole, defenders are falling away.

That’s some catch, that Catch-22.

Foreign policy makes strange bedfellows.

A rather bizarre coda to yesterday’s big Supreme Court decision.

Susan Collins and other Senators claiming otherwise are just wrong.

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

The Vietnam War hero and one-term Georgia Senator has died at 79.

The trailblazing soldier-statesman has died at 84.

American exceptionalism at its worst. (Plus some history!).

Our brains are wired to seek approval but may not be equipped to handle our modern existence.

A legendary journalist is gone.

He was both the youngest and oldest man to run the Pentagon.

Yet another thing driving Americans apart.

The country is in peril.

On fiscal policy and historical comparisons.

49 percent of Americans lean Democratic, compared to 40 for Republicans. Yet a plurality identify as Independent.

Reflections on the events of 6 January two months later.

The loaners, the dreamers, and schemes.

Some reflections

The Republican Party is not really a thing.

Whether the delusions of a madman or a deliberate scheme to poison the waters, there’s cause for concern.

The National Security Advisor to Presidents Ford and GHW Bush has died.

The writing is on the wall for simple-majority voting in the Senate.

The President didn’t want to hear about bad behavior from Moscow, so he wasn’t told.

It’s not clear what has been achieved.

A smaller staff is arguably a good idea. But not this way.

A recurring source of friction in the OTB conversation.

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

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.

Amid protests over American airstrikes, the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad has become a target.

A Federal Judge in Washington, D.C. has ruled against the Trump Administration’s latest effort to stonewall Congressional inquiries.

Reversing decades of policy, the Trump Administration reversed decades of policy on settlements in disputed territory.

Late last week, Attorney General William Barr demonstrated quite aptly the extent to which he has become just another Trump loyalist.

The President is committing enough high crimes and misdemeanors without us manufacturing them.

This year’s Nobel Peace Prize Laureate comes from a part of the world that most people almost never think about.

President Trump has named his fourth National Security Adviser in less than three years.

In a rebuke to traditional conservative views of Federalism, the Trump Administration intends to revoke California’s authority to set its own clean air standards,

John Bolton was not a good National Security Adviser, but the real problem with Trump Administration foreign policy comes from the man at the top.