Outside the Beltway

Two April Fool’s Day orders are no joke. And they’re apparently causing confusion.

It’s not getting any better, folks.

The law and justice are frequently not the same thing.

The pandemic is having serious effects in the region, and they will persist for some time.

Looking back to a story from 2018.

Supreme Court watcher Jeffrey Toobin speculates that Clarence Thomas could be the next Supreme Court Justice to step aside.

The Senate has the ball this week in terms of action on the government shutdown, but its work is going to end up being utterly pointless.

The 100-mile Constitution-free zone strikes again.

Whether Don Blankenship wins or loses in West Virginia, his success is yet another example of how Donald Trump has changed the GOP for the worse.

Will Bunch wildly exaggerates the Cambridge Analytica scandal.

President Trump’s tweets, other public statements, and actions are causing world leaders to doubt the reliability of the United States on the world stage.

A series of scandals at Oxfam and other charitable organizations raise troubling questions.

Last week, the President was calling for national unity. This week, he called political opponents “treasonous.”

Congress seems no closer to a DACA deal than they were in January.

The President talked about national unity last night, but given his own rhetoric as a candidate and as a President, it’s a call that seems to be hypocritical.

President Trump has alienated America’s allies and friends, and they are acting accordingly.

Just over one year after President Trump’s foolish and ill-informed decision to withdraw from the Trans-Pacific Partnership Canada has stepped in to rescue the deal.

Thanks to Donald Trump, public opinion around the world about the United States is at its lowest level in ten years.

With only days to go, Congress seems unable to come up with either a funding deal for the Federal Government or a solution to the DACA issue.

Some thoughts about why the president’s remarks on immigration are so problematic.

Once again, President Trump opens his mouth and proceeds to insult a good part of the world while embarrassing the country.

More stupid, irresponsible rhetoric from the President of the United States.

Allegations of influence peddling by Clinton Foundation donors are being rehashed thanks to the release of a new batch of emails.

A look at the history behind the ideology driving the standoff in Oregon.

Who should own antiquity?

Viet Xuan Luong pins on a brigadier general’s star today, becoming the first Vietnamese-American officer to achieve that rank.

Recent events in Iraq have opened up old domestic political arguments in the United States.

Once again, President Obama’s attempt to communicate a foreign policy vision falls short.

Today’s foreign-policy disputes rarely consider the way America’s response to one crisis might affect another.

The Oval Office Address, once a common tool of the Presidency, has been in declining use of late.

The Yippee Ki Yay Edition OTB Caption Contest^TM is now over.

The Republican Party needs a new message on foreign policy that is true to the conservative principles of the base and yet has a broad appeal to the American public.

Jim Yong Kim is an impressive man. But he’s got no background in banking, finance, or economics.

Marie Colvin of the Sunday Times and Remi Ochlik of Reuters have become the latest journalists to die reporting on the massacres in Syria.

Apparently, people who work for the government are surfing the World Wide Web.

Why we shouldn’t be surprised that police are using tools of violence against protestors.

Contrary to what Eugene Robinson and Paul Krugman argue today, compassion does not require one to support government social welfare programs.

Repeating the “destruction creates wealth” fallacy every time there’s a natural disaster doesn’t make it any less of a fallacy.

The defense spending lobby is already engaging in fear-mongering over very modest defense cuts.

The cuts to Pentagon spending in the new debt deal are further revealing a split in the GOP over foreign policy and military spending.

A legendary American soldier, General John Shalikashvili, has died.

Rock Diaz likes to wear Army cammies and “Marine Corp” dog tags when he flies. The portly Long Island man has never served in the military.

The public, and Congress, are skeptical of the mission in Libya, and the reason for that is because the President has failed to tell us exactly why we’re there and what we’ll be doing.

The antiwar movement has been strangely silent despite the fact that U.S. foreign policy hasn’t really changed that much since Barack Obama became President.

There are many opportunities to go to war. Here’s a guide for choosing between them.