Outside the Beltway

President Trump is expected to name a former Fox News host as Ambassador to the United Nations.

Honoring the 41st President cast a poor light on the 45th.

Trump continues to struggle at major international meetings.

A filing in an unrelated case has apparently revealed the existence of a sealed indictment against Wikileaks founder Julian Assange.

As expected, the North’s nuclear development continues.

Take one name out of contention as a potential replacement for Nikki Haley at the United Nations.

The evidence that Saudi Arabia murdered Washington Post columnist and American Permanent resident Jamal Khashoggi appears to be incontrovertible.

President Trump’s second speech to the General Assembly of the United Nations wasn’t much better than the first, but it it did get the world laughing at us.

Donald Trump’s trade war is helping China expand its diplomatic influence.

As expected, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo easily fended off a challenge from actress Cynthia Nixon. Let the Presidential speculation begin.

Three months after the Singapore summit, evidence grows that North Korea is still making nuclear weapons.

A new book by legendary Washington reporter Bob Woodward appears to contain explosive revelations about the President and the operation of the White House.

President Trump is alienating our allies and making friends with dictators, and the world is responding as you might expect they would.

Who could have seen this coming?

President Trump appears to be ready to expand his ignorant, counterproductive trade war with China.

The Trump’s Administration’s rhetoric and actions have given the Iranians no reason to trust the United States going forward.

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

Donald Trump had to be talked down from considering military intervention in Venezuela.

The supposed promises made at the Singapore Summit don’t appear to be working out in the real world.

Rebutting the President’s routine prevarications merely spreads them. Is there an alternative?

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.

Tom Nichols draws a contrast between Republican criticisms of the last president and their defense of this one.

The Singapore Summit meeting between President Trump and Kim Jong Un was about as substance-less as most analysts anticipated it would be.

Hurricane Trump hit the G-7 this weekend, and the damage it left behind will take years to clean up.

South Korea’s President is saying that Kim Jong Un has renewed his supposed commitment to ‘denuclearization,’ but it isn’t at all clear what that means.

Seemingly out of the blue, the June 12th summit between President Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has been canceled by the United States.

Not surprisingly, the North Koreans are pushing back against American efforts to force them into a corner on denuclearization.

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

The former SecState is engaging in some shadow diplomacy.

There are reasons to be skeptical about the dawning of a new age on the peninsula.

Despite facing headwinds in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Mike Pompeo will probably be confirmed as the next Secretary of State. That’s unfortunate.

President Trump undercut his own Ambassador to the United Nations today by blocking the imposition of new sanctions on Russia.

Once again, President Trump’s foreign policy tweeting is causing problems.

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.

Another significant development on the Korean Peninsula.

After several days of speculation, it was confirmed that the leaders of North Korea and China had met in Beijing. This was meant as much for external consumption as it was the relationship between the two nations.

From Europe to the Middle East, to Asia, America’s allies are concerned about what the selection of John Bolton as National Security Adviser means going forward. They should be, and so should every American.

The Trump presidency is the latest step in treating commentators like policy experts. It is all a manifestation of how the modern GOP is a populist party.

The selection of Mike Pompeo as the next Secretary of State makes it more likely that President Trump will take the foolish and dangerous step of withdrawing the United States from the nuclear deal with Iran.

While the nature of Rex Tillerson’s firing as Secretary of State was shocking in its abruptness, taken in context with the rocky nature of his tenure it was hardly surprising.

By threatening to withdraw from the nuclear deal with Iran, Donald Trump is making it far less likely that any upcoming talks with North Korea will succeed.

South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham says war against North Korea would be worth it. Ignoring the fact that it would result in casualties unlike anything America has seen since the Vietnam War.

President Trump continues to make irresponsible and dangerous threats in connection with American policy toward North Korea.

President Trump has announced a new round of sanctions against North Korea, but they are unlikely to work given the unrealistic nature of the Administration’s current policy toward North Korea.

He’s tan. He’s rested. He’s old.

Why does the U.S. continue to pursue the seemingly impossible goal of denuclearization with regard to North Korea? In part, it’s because we’re still locked into thirty-year-old rhetoric.

Donald Trump is wildly unpopular in the United Kingdom, and that’s apparently causing him to eschew visiting the United States’s most important ally.

President Trump is apparently pressuring the President of South Korea to give him the credit for talks between North and South Korea that the United States isn’t involved in at all.

Donald Trump’s foreign policy has been erratic, illogical, and demonstrated a clear disdain for diplomacy.

The ongoing destruction of the Department of State