Outside the Beltway

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.

Barbara Bush, only the second woman in history to be the wife and mother of a U.S. President, has died at the age of 92.

Without Congressional authorization, any attack on Syria would be illegal, but don’t expect Congress to do anything about it.

A plurality of Americans aged 18 to 34 have no idea how many people were killed, what Auschwitz was, or how Hitler came to power.

President Trump took to Twitter this morning and decided poke a stick in the eye of the Russian bear.

As expected, Russia has retaliated for the retaliation against it in connection with the attempted murder of a former Russian spy and his daughter in the United Kingdom.

Not unexpectedly, Russia has retaliated for Great Britain’s retaliation for Russia’s apparent assassination attempt on British history.

Continuing a long-standard tradition, the Trump Administration claims it doesn’t need to get legal authorization to keep American troops in Syria.

Elliot Cohen laments the lack of steel in the spine of the statesmen, diplomats, soldiers, and thinkers of the current generation.

Phil Carter makes an interesting argument but he’s ultimately mistaken.

My latest for RealClearDefense.

The recent cooling of relations between North and South Korea has led to some talk of eventual reunification, but for many South Koreans that idea is a non-starter.

With the Administration set to commit the United States to a forever war in Syria, it’s time for Congress to act.

Russia has been barred from participating in the 2018 Winter Olympics after an investigation uncovered extensive evidence of cheating.

Is it time to reexamine Presidential authority to launch a nuclear strike?

America has become involved in conflicts around the world, largely without the knowledge of the American people or the consent of their representatives, and it doesn’t appear that’s going to end anytime soon.

President Obama spoke out yesterday against his successor and the America he has created.

Donald Trump continues to be as astoundingly ignorant about the most powerful weapons the U.S. military possesses as he was as a candidate.

Early on the morning of Sept. 26, 1983, Lieutenant Colonel Stanislav Petrov helped to prevent the outbreak of nuclear war.

In less than a month, voters in the Catalan region of Spain will be voting whether to remain part of Spain or assert independence.

They may both be Republicans, but the relationship between the President and the Senate Majority Leader is bad and seems to be getting worse.