Outside the Beltway

The cost of Trump’s trade policies are well beyond the cost of soy beans.

It’s time to invoke the 25th Amendment, folks.

Herman Wouk, best known for works such as The Caine Mutiny, The Winds of War, and War and Remembrance, has died at the age of 103.

Surprising pollsters and political analysts down under, Australia’s ruling center-right coalition pulled off a big win in Saturday’s election.

Sexual misconduct in the military continues to frustrate observers.

The Trump Administration’s policies toward Iran aren’t going to work, but that’s because they aren’t supposed to work.

The Supreme Court’s conservative majority appears poised to uphold the inclusion of a citizenship question on the 2020 Census.

Steve King, who has recently come under attack for a long history of racist remarks, is facing a strong challenge for the GOP nomination in 2020.

“We have to be careful in balancing big dreams and bold ideas with also recognizing that typically change happens in steps.”

The esteemed biographer on his process.

The legendary figure was in charge of strategic forecasting at the Pentagon for decades.

Some context for ongoing discussions.

Free expression sometimes enables horrible crimes. How does a free society deal with that tension?

It’s been a rough two years under Trump, but America’s institutions are surviving.

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.

Steve King isn’t backing down from his history of white supremacy and racism. And he’s also running for re-election.

With just over two months to go until the March 29th deadline, British Prime Minister Theresa May is no closer to a Brexit deal.

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

Two months after being named, Heather Nauert withdrew her name as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations due to a ‘Nannygate’ problem.

Lyndon LaRouche, an eight-time Presidential candidate who ran a cult-like organization that spread bizarre conspiracy theories, has died at 96.

The arguments against withdrawing American forces from Afghanistan are becoming weaker and weaker.

In his business career Donald Trump relied largely on fear and intimidation to get his way on business deals. As President, he’s finding that nobody is afraid of him.

As threatened late last year, the Trump Administration has withdrawn from the Intermediate=Range Nuclear Forces Treaty. This is a mistake.

Having two presidents sounds like a terrible sitcom idea. In reality, the situation is just plain terrible.

Your treasures are your kids’ junk.

The House GOP has moved to rebuke Iowa Congressman for his racist remarks. What took them so long?

Iowa’s Steve King has long expressed anti-immigrant and racist views, now he’s asking why that’s a bad thing.

Before even taking office, Mitt Romney is taking on the President. It’s a good sign, but we’ll see what it leads to.

My mother has passed, aged 75 years.

The Pentagon is being ordered to draw up plans to withdraw roughly one-half of the American forces remaining in Afghanistan. It’s about time.

Europe’s highest Court appeared to hand the United Kingdom a way of escaping Brexit altogether if it chose to go that route. This will greatly complicate the domestic political situation for Theresa May.

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

Washington said farewell to George H.W. Bush today in a service that both remembered his spirit and his heroism, and stands as a sharp rebuke to what politics has been reduced to in America today.

American troops have been in Afghanistan for seventeen years now, it’s time to bring them all home.

George H.W. Bush,, who served his nation as a warrior, Congressman, Ambassador, Vice-President, and President, has died at the age of 94.

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

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

Claiming it was because of the weather President Trump chose to skip a visit to a cemetery at the site of one of the bloodiest battles involving Americans in World War One.

In addition to being mandated by the Constitution, birthright citizenship goes to the core of what it means to be an American.

Anti-Semitic violence has increased markedly over the past two years. So has the spread of far-right “anti-Globalist” conspiracy theories. This is not a coincidence.

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’s private phone calls are apparently a major source of intelligence for foreign nations.

The world loses a genuine war hero.

President Trump is preparing to scrap a thirty-year-old treaty that marked the beginning of the end of the Cold War. It would be a foolish mistake.

Donald Trump is a coward and an apologist for evil around the world.

The Saudis have been awful for generations. Why this?

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

Is political satire even possible in the age of Trump?

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.

A quick hit and run post to provide a proper definition.