Outside the Beltway

Donald Trump kowtows to Vladimir Putin yet again.

The FARC have disarmed. Now to the hard part.

Foolishly, President Trump is rolling back part of President Obama’s opening to Cuba.

President Trump is reportedly considering at least partly reversing one of the great foreign policy successes of the Obama Presidency.

Roger Moore, who played James Bond for a longer period and in more films than any other actor to date, has died at the age of 89.

#RulesMatter

Another provocative move by North Korea.

After 100 days in office, President Trump has very little to show for his work except to show that there’s no reason to trust his judgment going forward.

It’s been a bad week for U.S.-Russian relations.

The tiny Balkan nation of Montenegro is set to become the latest member of the NATO alliance despite the fact that there is seemingly no good reason for it.

More stepping back from free trade and the established global economic order.

South Korea removes a corrupt leader by peaceful means.

In a closer than normal vote for the position, Rex Tillerson has been confirmed as Secretary of State.

As with so many things, the President is demonstrating that he really doesn’t know what he is doing.

While vigilance is called for, America will survive Donald Trump just as it has survived everything else we’ve faced since the nation’s founding.

The head of the biggest energy company in the world is reportedly Donald Trump’s pick for Secretary of State.

Godspeed, John Glenn.

Neither President Obama nor Vice-President Biden will attend Fidel Castro’s funeral.

One of the Cold War era’s last dictators has finally died.

In which I use a lot of words to say hello.

Even if you’re not sure who you should vote for, it’s obvious who you shouldn’t vote for.

The reputation of the US matters in global affairs.

One of the last survivors of Israel’s founding generation has passed away.

President Obama will leave office as the first two term President who presided over eight years of war. It didn’t start with him and it won’t end with him.

The Greatest Of All Time.

President Obama’s visit to Hiroshima left just the impression it should have.

On his trip to Hanoi, President announced the latest sign that the Vietnam War is finally something both nations have manged to put behind them.

With President Obama becoming the first American President to visit Cuba in 88 years, a new poll finds majority support for his changes in Cuba policy.

Nancy Reagan was a crucial part what made Ronald Reagan the man he was, and today she passed away at the age of 94.

My latest for RealClearDefense, “The Forgotten Veterans of Desert Storm,” has posted. The headline belies the argument.

The futility of US policy towards Cuba is obvious to anyone who gives it even a passingly objective assessment.

The godfather of the Responsibility to Protect doctrine has passed.

Another step forward with regard to the American-Cuban relationship.

The end of Webbmentum is here, my friends.

Another hopeful step forward, thanks to diplomacy.

President Obama’s final State Of The Union Address was largely a recognition of the fact that his time on the world stage is quickly coming to an end.

NATO is extending full membership to the tiny nation of Montenegro, and there doesn’t seem to be a good reason why they’re doing it.

Yesterday, the British Parliament debated the expansion of that nation’s military strikes against ISIS. For more than a year, our cowardly Congress has failed to even hold one debate or vote on America’s role in that conflict.

Tensions between Russia and Turkey remain high in the wake of yesterday’s incident, but there are some signs that things are starting to cool down.

After thirty years in Federal Prison, Jonathan Pollard is a free man. Make no mistake, though. Pollard is not, and never has been, a hero and he deserves to be remembered as nothing but the criminal that he is.

Republicans insist that uttering the words “Radical Islamic Terrorism” is somehow important in the fight against ISIS and other terror networks, but it is entirely unclear what doing so would accomplish.

We are legally, morally, and practically obligated to respond. Let’s not do so stupidly.

In a new book, former President George H.W. Bush is highly critical of two of his son’s closest advisers in the White House.

With the exception of Rand Paul, the foreign policy discussion at last night’s debate was about as bad as you’d expect.

International relations prof mostly assign readings by male scholars. Female profs are slightly less likely to do so.