Outside the Beltway

A post about thinking in a comparative way.

Old men still bitter about where they went to college.

It’s probably not strange visitors from outer space but we can’t rule it out.

Another bill doomed to die.

Tales of threat assessment and media reactions.

The PRC is skirting sanctions to supply a frienemy.

You be the judge.

Playing two-level games.

An object lesson on the challenges of alliance politics.

A more dangerous world is changing the relationship.

A second stash has led to a special counsel and political embarrassment.

The one-time Juiceboxer is still annoying the mainstream media.

A controversial artillery round is being used effectively against Russian forces.

The longtime journalist is gone at 100.

If it hasn’t happened already, it soon will.

But did he ever really have it?

The trailblazing television interviewer is gone at 93.

Russia is humiliated but not defeated. Ukraine is winning but at a very high price.

United States and People’s Republic of China forces are playing a dangerous game.

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

The Biden Administration wants clean energy but only for some.

Prices are coming down but they’re way higher than they were.

A move away from a centuries old Asian practice.

A 34-year CIA officer’s thoughts.

Spoiler alert: the GOP has already failed this test multiple times.

Washington has imposed a contract that workers rejected.

Anger over COVID lockdowns has activated myriad frustrations.

Waaaay too little, waaay too late.

President Biden is being pressured to face the music after the midterms.

A deep dive into why our politics are so broken.

The company is begrudgingly complying with the EU’s requirement.

A brilliant national security leader is gone too soon.

He’s using a tool he denounced as cruel to deal with a humanitarian crisis.

Biden is following Trump’s lead but doing it more competently.

The threat is not idle and the options for responding are not good.

A phony annexation doesn’t hide that he’s badly losing his illegal war.

Eighteen HIMARS and what do you get? Years older and deeper in debt.

The President is getting hammered from all sides for stating the obvious.

What once seemed to be ‘saying the quiet part out loud’ is now administration policy.

CNN’s original anchorman is gone at 82.

After decades of exporting American jobs, corporations are bringing them home.

“America can survive the demagogues themselves, it’s their audience that will kill us.”

The Speaker’s trip was reckless, needlessly escalating an already tense situation.

Instead of a clenched fist of support, it was a big middle finger to Sweden and Finland.

The competition is slowly ratcheting up.

Normalcy is not a bad thing.

Not only has the war changed, but so have the combatants.

Columnists write bad columns apologizing for bad columns.

The economy, it turns out, is complicated.