Outside the Beltway

The Navy is confirming that it did receive a request from the White House to keep the USS John McCain “out of sight” during the President’s visit to an American base in Japan.

It’s been just about fifteen months since President Trump imposed tariffs on imported steel and aluminum. Not surprisingly, those tariffs have not had the effect the President claimed they would.

Having exhausted their word list and the competitors, the contest ended with octo-champs.

White House aides asked the Navy to keep the USS John McCain “out of sight” while the President visited a Navy base in Japan earlier this week.

The Democratic frontrunner is being wrongly blamed for an explosion in the prison population.

The DPRK sent a message to the United States over the weekend, but it’s unlikely the President was listening.

President Trump is in Japan, and while there is is dismissing the seriousness of new North Korean missile tests that threaten Japan.

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

So good. So easy to win.

President Trump is reportedly planning to pardon several American servicemen convicted of war crimes, an action that would be an insult to everyone who has ever worn an American uniform.

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.

Taiwan has become the first nation in Asia to legally recognize same-sex marriage.

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

One of the last of the Navajo Code Talkers, who provided the U.S. military with an unbreakable code in the fight against Japan in World War Two, has died at the age of 97.

The Trump Administration is proposing another round of tariffs on even more Chinese goods.

94-year-old Bill Dawson has a story to tell and is the only one left alive to tell it.

President Trump’s foreign policy has largely been a failure, and there are specific reasons why.

Donald Trump’s tariffs are hurting the American economy, American consumers, and American businesses.

As the Friday deadline for trade talks with China approaches, President Trump is threatening even more tariffs.

Emperor Akihito became the first Japanese Emperor to abdicate the throne in 200 years today.

Despite seemingly ideal conditions, Green Mountain Care was an absolute debacle.

The President has hit a dubious milestone barely two years into his administration.

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

Japan will be getting a new Emperor on May 1st. That means a new calendar and a whole lot of headaches.

The US is reproducing below the replacement rate.

Well, that can’t be good.

Some context for ongoing discussions.

The Trump Administration still doesn’t have realistic goals for its negotiations with North Korea.

In the end, the reason the Hanoi Summit failed is because the Trump Administration is pursuing an unattainable goal.

The second summit between President Trump and Kim Jong Un ended early without any kind of agreement, signalling that no real progress has been made in talks between the two countries.

President Trump and Kim Jong Un hold their second summit in Hanoi later this week, but it’s unlikely anything significant will happen.

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

The longest-serving member of Congress in American history has passed away at the age of 92.

The date and location of the next summit between President Trump and Kim Jong Un have been set, but it’s hard to see what can really be accomplished.

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

President Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un will meet again in February, but it’s hard to see why.

Despite the President’s claims, the American steel industry isn’t doing well at all.

Donald Trump continues to appear to advocate ideas that harm American national interests and benefit Vladimir Putin. Draw your own conclusions as to why.

In his annual message, Kim Jong Un sent a message to President Trump on denuclearization and the future of the Korean Peninsula.

The TPP is about to go into effect without the US.

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.

The North Korean government is making clear what it means when it speaks of denuclearization, and its far different from what the United States means.

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

The European Union has approved the final Brexit deal negotiated with Theresa May’s government, but the final chapter has yet to be written.

The current economic recovery is nearly ten years old. It isn’t going to last forever, though, and that could pose a problem for the GOP in 2020.

A slight variant of the uniform from World War II and Korea is coming to a soldier near you.

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

President Trump’s trade war with China is leading car manufacturers to shift production from the U.S. to China.

The investigation of the murder of Jamal Khashoggi is inching closer to Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman, but it seems unlikely to impact his hold on power.

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.