Outside the Beltway

He conjures the imperialist past with such comments (and he doesn’t even use the term correctly).

A successful launch for SpaceX and NASA and a successful beginning to the return of American manned spaceflight.

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.

After two years of spitting in their faces, President Trump is finding it hard to get America’s European allies to come to his aid.

President Trump’s impending decision to declare a national emergency to get funding for his border wall will quickly face serious legal challenges. It may be more vulnerable than the White House suspects.

The self-appointed Acting President of Venezuela has said he doesn’t rule out the idea of American intervention in his country, but we should rule it out immediately.

The arguments against withdrawing American forces from Afghanistan are becoming weaker and weaker.

The American withdrawal from the I.N.F. Treaty gives Vladimir Putin exactly what he wants.

As threatened late last year, the Trump Administration has withdrawn from the Intermediate=Range Nuclear Forces Treaty. This is a mistake.

President Trump is claiming that he could use authority to declare a “national emergency” to build his wall even if Congress doesn’t authorize it.

Washington said farewell to George H.W. Bush today in a service that both remembered his spirit and his heroism, and stands as a sharp rebuke to what politics has been reduced to in America today.

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

In what has to qualify as one of the most horrifying displays of moral depravity on the international stage, the Trump Administration is saying it doesn’t really care if the Saudi Crown Prince is a murderer or not.

Over the weekend, it was confirmed that the man once referred to as Vladimir Putin’s favorite Congressman was defeated in last week’s midterms.

My latest for War on the Rocks.

American troops in Iceland for a military exercise were apparently quite thirsty.

President Trump is preparing to scrap a thirty-year-old treaty that marked the beginning of the end of the Cold War. It would be a foolish mistake.

Jamal Khashoggi’s final column includes a message that should resonate far beyond the Arab world it was addressed to.

President Trump is serving as a knowing apologist for a despotic regime.

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

After nearly a year, Trump’s trade policies are having their inevitable negative impact inside the United States.

Fifty years ago, a young college student who would become one of the most influential women in Washington was sexually assaulted by a Senator. She didn’t come forward with her story for more than fifty years, and the reasons why strike close to what we’ve been talking about for three weeks now.

President Trump got his revised version of NAFTA, but Canadians are less positive about the United States than they have been in at least twenty years.

The Kavanaugh fight is just another indicator of our national divide.

Regardless of who wins control of the Senate in November, the person who will stand third in the line of succession will either be over, or very close to, eighty years old. That doesn’t make sense.

Trumpism is a direct by-product of the poisonous populism of the Tea Party movement, and they’ve both taken over the Republican Party.

The fact that American officials talked with Venezuelans plotting a coup against the government of their country is a dangerous turn of events.

Thankfully, they chose not to help.

He’s tan. He’s rested. He’s ready.

Kofi Annan, who served as Secretary-General of the United Nations at the dawn of the “War On Terror,” has died at the age of 80.

The 95-year-old elder statesman is slowly shedding his public reticence at the risk of the access on which he has built his fortune.

We still don’t know what President Trump and Vladimir Putin talked about or agreed to during their two-hour meeting on Monday.

Mariia Butina, a Russian “gun rights activist, is accused of being an unregistered agent of the Russian government and attempting to influence Republican Party policies regarding Russia in an operation that pre-dates the Trump Presidential campaign.

Even if all he gets out of the Helsinki Summit is a handshake and a photograph, Vladimir Putin has already won.

The NATO Summit is going about as well as can be expected.

On the eve of the NATO Summit, President Trump continues to engage in tactics that seem to serve no purpose other than to undermine America’s most important and successful alliance.

Recent polling finds that Americans aren’t feeling quite so patriotic right now. It’s understandable, but we shouldn’t give up hope.

The Presidents of the United States and Russia will meet next month and there’s reason to worry about what Trump might give away.

President Trump continues to dismiss concerns about Kim Jong Un’s brutality, and to lavish praise on a man who has a considerable amount of blood on his hands.

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

The arguments in favor of a permanent U.S./NATO base in Poland are not very convincing.

Frank Carlucci, who served as President Reagan’s last Secretary of Defense, has died at 87.

61 percent of Americans have a favorable impression of a man who left office a failed president.

President Trump’s decision to violate the terms of the nuclear deal with Iran could be a turning point in relations between the United States and its most important allies, and not in a good way.

The date and location of the meeting between President Trump and Kim Jong Un has been set, but there’s as much chance of failure as their is hope for success.

Gina Haspel faced some tough questions from Democrats regarding her role in the C.I.A.’s post-9/11 torture programs, but she’s likely to be confirmed anyway.

Seven years after deactivation, the U.S. Second Fleet will be patrolling the North Atlantic again.

Andrew Sullivan wonders, “Will there always be an England?”

Cuba has a new President and he isn’t named Castro, but that doesn’t mean we’re going to see significant change in the near future.