Outside the Beltway

The most important and controversial American diplomat of the postwar era is gone at 100.

A simple typo misdirected millions of emails intended for the US military.

Debt-trap diplomacy has finally come home to roost.

The questionable ethics of living a lavish lifestyle based on high office.

President Biden is being pressured to face the music after the midterms.

An unsavory practice that’s mostly legal.

Supply chain disruptions are contributing to crisis for 300 million people.

The postmortems are well underway.

Indonesia is beginning an ambitious program to move its capital city. Because the current capital of Jakarta is sinking.

The President’s trade policies stand to benefit a lot of other countries, just not the United States.

Sunday’s attacks in Sri Lanka make it clear that the claim that ISIS has been defeated are nowhere close to being true.

Further evidence that Sri Lankan authorities failed to act on warnings of rising Jihadism in their country.

ISIS is claiming responsibility for Sunday’s attacks in Sri Lanka, a strong sign that the claims by the Trump Administration that it had largely defeated the group were not true.

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

Both President Trump and Ivanka Trump are profiting handsomely from their time in the White House.

An important message from Josh Marshall.

Barbara Bush, only the second woman in history to be the wife and mother of a U.S. President, has died at the age of 92.

New York Knicks Center Enes Katner is at the center of an international legal dispute for speaking out against the President of Turkey.

Reports indicate that President Trump is preparing to fulfill a campaign promise and withdraw the U.S. from the accord on climate change reached in Paris in 2015.

Trump’s attempt to fix the balance of trade will almost surely end up leaving us all worse off.

Are these the faces of Clinton voters? George P. Bush thinks so.

A third major terrorist attack inside of a week.

A third major ISIS-inspired or planned attack in three weeks.

Ben Carson may be a non-entity in the Presidential race at this point, but that hasn’t stopped him from making controversial statements.

Conservatives finally seem to be waking up to the truth about Sarah Palin.

Two potential candidates for the Republican nomination in 2016 traded barbs this week over the President’s new policy toward Cuba.

Wikipedia is refusing to recognize a photographer’s copyright claim because a monkey took the picture.

Not surprisingly, Bill Clinton is the most admired recent President according to a new poll, but his predecessor seems to be underrated.

There’s little evidence for the conservative contention that the President has damaged America’s position in the world.

The Economist reports that “The coffee insurgency” is winning.

Habemus Papam

The notion that guns prevent tyranny is based on fantasy and movies, not reality.

There’s no doubt about it, our political culture is pretty horrible.

Capitulating to a mob is never a good idea.

A POLITICO analysis finds that “Obama and his top campaign aides have engaged far more frequently in character attacks and personal insults than the Romney campaign.”

Yesterday it became clear that the Presidential campaign is headed into the mud.

Once again, people are demanding to see Barack Obama’s college transcripts for no good reason.

Mitt Romney continues to keep Donald Trump close. It makes no sense, but it isn’t likely to matter in the end.

Will Twitter impact the 2012 elections? The evidence seems thin that it will.

Phony wars on Stay At Home Moms, dogs, and Osama bin Laden. The Obama campaign is pointing at the shiny object, and the right is falling for it.

Last week, an absurd campaign became even more absurd.

Barack Obama wrote two bestselling memoirs before becoming president. Both of them are hot items at Foggy Bottom.

With most of the public looking at the future and not seeing anything good, the President is suffering