Outside the Beltway

The Speaker’s trip was reckless, needlessly escalating an already tense situation.

The iconic basketball player, coach, and civil rights leader is gone at 88.

The competition is slowly ratcheting up.

Normalcy is not a bad thing.

Shocking but perhaps unsurprising news.

An embarrassing photo demonstrates the perils of leading the free world.

The implications of modes of interpretation.

Another potential deal that doesn’t address the central issue.

It’s happened. What does it mean?

The West continues to close Moscow off.

It would be fitting but, alas, won’t happen.

The most likely outcome is not a happy one.

More brutality from an ostensible US ally.

Strikes near the Polish border show the real possibility of escalation.

The Russian leader is isolated and under tremendous pressure.

The Biden administration is close to repairing the damage Trump caused.

There’s no keeping politics out of these Games.

Not Mayberry. Not even close.

Do young Democrats really hate Republicans more than vice-versa?

A depressing magazine piece argues it is.

The right questions are: 1) why do some some on the right like him, and 2) should this concern us all?

The two-time Pulitzer winner is considering a career change.

A reckless campaign of violence has now targeted American journalists.

The President has overturned decades of US foreign policy and alienated a NATO ally for, well, reasons.

Competing analogies and externalities.

Multiple indicators point to a decline in the representativeness of the American system.

Those expecting Bernie Sanders’ agenda are sorely disappointed.

The fecklessness of U.S. human rights policy in full display.

The longtime public servant has died, aged 100.

Aung San Suu Kyi and her top officials are under house arrest.

The iconoclastic journalist is out at the publication he founded.

If we embrace the Founders to justify the present, let’s think about what we are doing.

I couldn’t help myself.

Considering Breonna Taylor’s death, police shootings, and human rights.

Portland may be a preview of what’s to come.

A civil rights legend has passed.

A solid piece of satire.

In recent weeks the US has ramped-up pressure on Maduro.

Bloomberg waffles on China while Sanders has a soft spot for Castro.

The chief diplomat of the United States isn’t very diplomatic (nor informative).

President Trump’s threat to attack Iranian cultural sites would most likely constitute a war crime if he actually carried it out.

Worrisome news for an American icon.

Five men have been sentenced to die by a Saudi Arabian court for the murder of Jamal Khashoggi, but the parties who are really responsible are getting off scot-free.

Donald Trump’s pardons of soldiers convicted of war crimes sends the wrong message to the military, to our allies, and to the world.

Trump takes credit for stopping his “friend” Xi from attacking Hong Kong protesters.

The fifth Democratic debate brought some candidate clashes, but hardly the no-holds-barred type of event you might expect for this late in the pre-primary process.

Against the advice of his top military advisers, President Trump has cleared three American soldiers of war crimes, sending a horrible signal to the world and to the troops in the field.