Outside the Beltway

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?

Angela Merkel announced yesterday that she would step aside as Chancellor at the end of her current term. What that means for the short and long term future of Germany and Europe is unclear.

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

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

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

According to reports, President Trump is preparing to go to war against luxury German cars.

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.

After six months, Angela Merkel has apparently succeeded in forming a coalition government.

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.

Angela Merkel was re-elected to a fourth term as German Chancellor as expected, but voters also sent a warning.

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

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

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.

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.

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

Largely in reaction to revelations about N,S.A. surveillance, Germany has cut back on its intelligence cooperation with the United States.

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

A new poll finds that a majority of Germans support sanctions against Russia, even if those sanctions end up hurting the German economy.

Vladimir Putin’s latest actions seems to have exhausted Germany’s patience.

Despite the President’s assurances of an international coalition, the rest of the world doesn’t seem all that interested in joining the fight.

There’s a new round of allegations about American spying on Germany.

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

Under German law, this ceremony, which Jews believe dates from the time of Abraham, is now illegal.

To save the world economy and themselves Germany and China must change course.

Despite what appear to be the fond hope of European central bankers that it will just all go away, something needs to be done. But what?

The free world rallied around the United States after the 9/11 attacks–but not all back the killing of the man who ordered it.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel declare multiculturalism in Germany to be a “failure.” Proof that anti-immigration activists in the United States are correct, right?

What do the critics mean when they say that the United States should be more like Germany?

Three different ways they’re viewing the leaked “war logs” across the Pond.