Outside the Beltway

Gone are ‘climate change’ and ‘skeptic.’ In are ‘global heating’ and ‘denier.’

One of the most well-known architects of the modern era has passed away.

The President’s trade policies stand to benefit a lot of other countries, just not the United States.

As it has in so many other areas, the right has sacrificed it’s previously held beliefs on international trade to feckless obedience toward President Trump.

The Trump Administration is proposing another round of tariffs on even more Chinese goods.

Yet another candidate joins an already crowded field for the 2020 Democratic Presidential nomination.

China has retaliated for the tariffs that the President imposed late last week, and things look like they’re only going to get worse.

President Trump’s foreign policy has largely been a failure, and there are specific reasons why.

Despite similar paths to the Supreme Court, it turns out the two don’t share the same style and approach.

Trump’s penchant for behaving more like a talk radio host than a POTUS continues unabated.

As he had threatened, President Trump has imposed new tariffs on Chinese goods, making a bad situation even worse.

Patrick Shanahan, who has been serving as Acting Defense Secretary since James Mattis left in December, is being selected to replace Mattis in that position.

While he campaigned on a message of restraint, Donald Trump has largely adopted the interventionist foreign policies of his predecessors.

The Trump Administration is taking an unnecessarily militaristic approach toward Iran, and that poses real dangers for the country and for the Middle East.

Donald Trump’s tariffs are hurting the American economy, American consumers, and American businesses.

As the Friday deadline for trade talks with China approaches, President Trump is threatening even more tariffs.

President Trump’s obsequious effort to please Russian President Vladimir Putin continues.

Republicans have aborted President Trump’s lofty plan for a $2 trillion infrastructure deal just days after it was conceived.

The former Kentucky coal executive, Republican fundraiser, and Ambassador to Canada would replace Nikki Haley in what used to be a position dominated by more experienced diplomats.

Jobs Growth in April was much higher than expected, seemingly putting to rest for now fears that the economy might be slowing.

Matt Bernius and I collaborated on an essay for Defense One.

200-odd Congressional Democrats are taking an odd route to go after corruption.

The President has hit a dubious milestone barely two years into his administration.

First quarter economic growth came in higher than expected, but there are several caveats worth keeping an eye on.

Yesterday, Microsoft became the third American company to reach $1 trillion in market value.

The Trump Administration’s policies toward Iran aren’t going to work, but that’s because they aren’t supposed to work.

Japan will be getting a new Emperor on May 1st. That means a new calendar and a whole lot of headaches.

Can the ICC get him into the dock?

Well, that can’t be good.

In 2016, a crowded Republican field yielded an unlikely nominee. Could history repeat itself in 2020?

The legendary figure was in charge of strategic forecasting at the Pentagon for decades.

The Trump Administration still doesn’t have realistic goals for its negotiations with North Korea.

Looking to OTB readers for insights into an argument with which I’m struggling.

Not good, not easy to win.

It’s that time of year again, and once again people are asking if it isn’t time to drop the whole ritual of changing time every six months altogether.

Notwithstanding President Trump’s tariffs, America’s trade deficit hit a record level last year.

In the wake of the failure of the Hanoi Summit to reach any agreement at all, North Korea appears to be returning to old form.

For the second time in a week, reports indicate that the President intervened to get a family member a security clearance.

Reason’s Nick Gillespie makes an interesting case but I don’t buy it.

A powerful Congressman successfully pressured a media giant to pull content. We should be worried.

And a link to a worthwhile read.

The second summit between President Trump and Kim Jong Un ended early without any kind of agreement, signalling that no real progress has been made in talks between the two countries.

While the rest of the world looks at other events, tensions are flaring in a long-standing global hot spot.

President Trump and Kim Jong Un hold their second summit in Hanoi later this week, but it’s unlikely anything significant will happen.

Kevin Drum uses some clever sleight-of-hand to demonstrate a hard truth about the human condition.

President Trump will get his Space force, but it won’t exactly be what he wanted when he first proposed that idea.

Thanks mostly to it’s complete and enthusiastic embrace of Donald Trump , the Republican Party faces a bleak demographic future.

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

Two months after being named, Heather Nauert withdrew her name as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations due to a ‘Nannygate’ problem.

Based on his appearance on CNN last night, Howard Schultz appears to be running a campaign about nothing.