Outside the Beltway

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.

Yes, he was terrible at his job. But one can’t break that which is already broken.

One of the giants of the progressive blogosphere is going away.

President Trump is delaying implementation of his recently announced tariffs on Chinese goods.

Just over a week after Dan Coats announced he was stepping own as Director of National Intelligence, there are more shakeups at the top of the U.S. intelligence community.

President Trump and the Republican Senate rewarded a top Republican donor with a prized diplomatic appointment.

President Trump’s nominee to be the next Director of National Intelligence is quite simply not qualified for the position he has been nominated to.

President Trump has named his pick for Labor Secretary.

Just over nine years after retiring from the Supreme Court, former Associate Justice John Paul Stevens has passed away at the age of 99.

The Pentagon has been headed by Acting Secretaries for an unprecedented period. Does it really matter?

Despite his claims, President Trump is actually deporting fewer people than were deported under former President Obama.

Recent comments by the U.S. Ambassador to Israel make it clear that the United States cannot be considered a neutral party In the Middle East peace process.

Jared Kushner’s long-awaited Middle East peace plan is still awaiting release, but it already appears to be dead on arrival.