Outside the Beltway

A major, destructive fire hits one of the most historic churches in the world.

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.

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

French President Emmanuel Macron made several concessions to the Yellow Vest protesters but it remains to be seen if this will be enough to quell the protests.

French authorities are investigating reports that Russian interference may be helping to exploit and expand the five-week-old “yellow vest” protests.

Current attempts to take power away from the state executive branch illustrates a lot of what I have been writing about for years.

Protests that have killed four and injured hundreds have been rewarded and show no sign of ending.

One hundred years after the end of World War One, the forces that led to it are waking up from a long slumber.

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

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

French President Emmanuel Macron predicts, correctly, that President Trump will pull out of the nuclear deal with Iran for the worst possible reasons. This will be a disaster for America’s national interests.

French President Emmanuel Macron is in the U.S. hoping to lobby President Trump to keep the United States in the nuclear deal with Iran. He’s got his work cut out for him.

America’s closest European allies are rebuffing the Trump Administration’s efforts to renegotiate the nuclear deal with Iran. They’re right to do so.

America’s closest allies sent a strong signal that they do not agree with President Trump on the nuclear deal with Iran.

Reports are indicating that President Trump will decertify the nuclear weapons deal with Iran. This would be a foolish and potentially dangerous mistake.

The political party formed by French President Emmanuel Macron just about a year ago scored big wins in yesterday’s first round of legislative elections.

Centrist candidate Emmanuelle Macron scored a decisive win over the far-right Marine Le Pen in today’s runoff round of the French Presidential election.

Emmanuel Macron holds a decisive lead over Marine Le Pen as the French Presidential election heads into its final hours.

French voters face a stark choice in the May 7th runoff for President. Hopefully, they’ll make the correct choice.

The players are almost completely set for France’s 2017 Presidential elections, and the choice seems likely to come down to center-right candidate Francois Fillon and Marine Le Pen, France’s Donald Trump.

A high-level French Court has struck down the ban on the so-called ‘burkini’ adopted by many towns along the French Riviera.

A night of terror mars Bastille Day celebrations in France.

France’s President has spent the week trying to forge and agreement on an anti-ISIS policy, but the two nations that matter the most also disagree the most.

In the wake of the attacks in Paris, some people have argued that American solidarity with France, in contrast to seeming disregard for tragedy elsewhere, is something we should feel bad about. That argument is ridiculous.

France launched its first attacks against ISIS even as the investigation into Friday’s attacks continues, but it’s not clear that the retaliation really accomplished anything.

France’s President blames ISIS, vows response, as death toll from Paris terror attacks stands at at least 127.

Reports of at least up to sixty dead, a hostage situation, and attacks at multiple locations in Paris.

Congress is set to debate the Iran nuclear deal next month, but as far as Europe is concerned the debate is already over.

A cease fire deal in Ukraine, but a long term settlement will require compromises from both Moscow and Kiev.

The men responsible for the Charlie Hebdo massacre are dead, but the problems for France, and the rest of Europe, may just be at the beginning.

Thanks largely to France, this weekend’s efforts to reach an interim deal on Iran’s nuclear program fell apart.

The French were indignant about reports of the NSA’s surveillance programs. Now we know they have own of their own.

The blowback from yesterday’s revelations about U.S. surveillance on European allies continues.

The French economy has drifted into recession for the second time in four years.

Ben Stein seems to have been out to lunch when he wrote his column about Dominique Strauss-Kahn

Some French politicians and intellectuals seem offended that Dominique Strauss-Kahn is being treated like a common criminal.

Former French president Jacques Chirac is being tried on corruption charges stemming from misconduct as mayor of Paris.