Outside the Beltway

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

An apparent terror attack outside Parliament in London.

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

Travel industry experts are reporting a noticeable drop in international travel and tourism since Donald Trump was elected President.

The President gathered supporters around him, and blatantly lied to them, so as to increase support for his policies.

The President throws the US under the bus to defend Putin.

British Prime Minister Theresa May made it clear that she intends to move forward with Brexit.

Secretary of State John Kerry’s speech on Middle East peace was largely correct, but his words are pointless given the fact that neither Israel nor the Palestinians seem serious about peacefully resolving their differences.

While you were celebrating Christmas, Israel was blasting the Obama Administration and cozying up to the incoming Trump Administration.

Concepts, basic applications, and even a bibliography! Merry Festivus, everyone.

Another attack in what has been a bloody 2016 for Europe.

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.

For Donald Trump, it appears that ignorance is bliss.

Canada is phasing out coal as a source of electricity production by 2030. The same thing will happen in the United States no matter how much politicians try to stop it.

Political change coming to Germany? Or more of the same.

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

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

For largely irrational reasons, French police are arresting women on the beach for wearing swimsuits that are compatible with their faith.

A look at the state of the race before the two party conventions begin.

The least likely choice ascends to the Number Two position on the Republican ticket.

A night of terror mars Bastille Day celebrations in France.

A man who survived great horrors to become a tireless witness for truth and advocate for human rights has passed away.

Californians are set to vote on marijuana legalization in November and, this time, it looks like it will pass.

As with each previous committee that investigated the 2012 attack on the U.S outpost in Benghazi, the House Select Committee finds that mistakes were made but no evidence of wrongdoing or cover-ups.

Many pundits are arguing that the victory for ‘Leave’ presages good news for Trump in November, but there’s no reason to believe that.

By a narrow margin, British voters have chosen to send their nation, themselves, and indeed all of Europe into uncharted waters.

Stopping the next Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, Syed Farook, or Omar Mateen is likely to be a lot more difficult than the politicians on either side of the aisle are leading us to believe.

With just over a week to go, the latest polling shows voters in the United Kingdom leaning toward leaving the European Union.

A respected scholar has an interesting suggestion for fighting the Forever War.

An EgyptAir jetliner with 66 on board disappeared from radar just before beginning its decent into Cairo.

A series of bomb attacks across Brussels has left at least 26 dead, and dozens more injured.

All of which leads to a discussion of electoral rules.

A man who helped create a multi-billion dollar a year industry, and some mighty fine wine, has passed away.

The godfather of the Responsibility to Protect doctrine has passed.

Marine Le Pen suffered setbacks in the second round of regional voting on Sunday, but the party still seems likely to become more popular in the coming years.

Donald Trump’s plan to exclude Muslims from the United States is provoking condemnation, and confusion, around the world.

As we deal with the fall out from the attacks in Paris and San Bernardino, we need remember the years after September 11th, 2001 and avoid holding an entire religion responsible for the actions of fanatics.

Europe’s anti-immigrant, xenophobic far right scored major victories in France yesterday.

The attack in San Bernardino has seemingly left the Administration’s anti-terror strategy in disarray, so the President is addressing the nation tonight to say, well, something I guess.

The German Parliament has approved expansion of the nation’s involvement in the campaign against ISIS, but that doesn’t make the current campaign any less incoherent.

A vote is still as much as two years away, and support for staying in the E.U. still has the most support, but support for the idea of a British exit from the European Union has grown in the past several months.

The election of an anti-austerity government in Portugal is raising some concerns.