Outside the Beltway

After nearly a year, Trump’s trade policies are having their inevitable negative impact inside the United States.

President Trump got his revised version of NAFTA, but Canadians are less positive about the United States than they have been in at least twenty years.

President Trump is once again threatening to lower the tariff hammer on one of America’s most reliable allies and biggest trading partners.

Donald Trump’s trade war is helping China expand its diplomatic influence.

President Trump is set to expand his ill-advised, economically ignorant, trade war with China.

Three months after the Singapore summit, evidence grows that North Korea is still making nuclear weapons.

Lost in all the news about Serena Williams and her arguments with an umpire during last night’s match is the fact that Naomi Osaka represents the face of what appears to be a Japan that is changing for the better.

Recent controversies over rules enforcement have some crying Foul!

A significant advance for LGBT rights in the world’s most populous democracy.

The target is not just on illegal immigrants.

One moment at a campaign rally in October 2008 defines better than anything else what American politics lost when John McCain passed away.

President Trump appears to be ready to expand his ignorant, counterproductive trade war with China.

The Trump Administration is falsely claiming that the North Koreans made commitments at the Singapore Summit that they clearly didn’t agree to.

I have heard Trump supporters offer the following rationale for Trump’s tarris, “It is a bargaining strategy.” Then they sit back and smirk, and tell me, “Trump really wants zero tariffs, but to get these other countries to come to the table he has to get their attention. And once he has softened them up, they’ll be willing to reduce their tariffs.”

The President is apparently getting ready to take yet another ill-advised step in his ill-advised, economically illiterate trade war.

Even if all he gets out of the Helsinki Summit is a handshake and a photograph, Vladimir Putin has already won.

The ill-advised move is sure to raise costs for businesses and consumers and roil global stock markets.

Once touted as an example of his deal-making prowess, Harley-Davidson sent a rebuke to President Trump by announcing it was moving some manufacturing to Europe to counteract the impact of his ongoing trade war.

The Vietnam memorial helped heal a gaping wound. What purpose will this one serve?

President Trump is at the center of controversy again after video emerged of him returning the salute of a North Korean General.

Trump spent much of Tuesday praising a dictator who has murdered and imprisoned millions of people. Then he returned to attacking the democratically elected leader of one of our closest allies.

The Singapore Summit meeting between President Trump and Kim Jong Un was about as substance-less as most analysts anticipated it would be.

With the start of the Singapore Summit just hours away, it’s not at all clear what the respective parties can possibly agree to other than what amounts to a photo opportunity.

Thanks to Donald Trump, the happiest man in the world right now is Vladimir Putin.

Hurricane Trump hit the G-7 this weekend, and the damage it left behind will take years to clean up.

Donald Trump’s approach to international trade has nothing to with economics and everything to do with politics and the culture war he loves to provoke.

The actions of the Trump administration are helping Russian-EU relations (to the detriment of the US).

South Korea’s President is saying that Kim Jong Un has renewed his supposed commitment to ‘denuclearization,’ but it isn’t at all clear what that means.

Some good news from North Korea.

Seven years after deactivation, the U.S. Second Fleet will be patrolling the North Atlantic again.

The United States is apparently looking to Libya as a guide for upcoming talks with North Korea. The DPRK most likely sees the fate of that nation and its leader as a warning.

The meeting between Kim Jong-Un and Moon Jae-In was historic, but many questions and caveats remain.

Ford, GM, and Chrysler are all moving almost exclusively to trucks, SUVs, and crossovers.

The Kim regime has announced the end, for now, of its nuclear and ballistic missile testing programs. To understand why they made this concession, one needs to read between the lines.

You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

Trump suggests US might seek to rejoin the Trans-Pacific Partnership.

Begun the trade wars have.

In selecting John Bolton as his National Security Adviser, Donald Trump has signaled to the world that he’s likely to take action that will only serve to make the world a more dangerous place.

From Europe to the Middle East, to Asia, America’s allies are concerned about what the selection of John Bolton as National Security Adviser means going forward. They should be, and so should every American.

South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham says war against North Korea would be worth it. Ignoring the fact that it would result in casualties unlike anything America has seen since the Vietnam War.

The President provided a contender for most ignorant tweet this morning, as he makes a proposal that would disrupt the global economy.

China’s Xi Jinping solidified his hold on power well into the next decade over the weekend.

President Trump continues to make irresponsible and dangerous threats in connection with American policy toward North Korea.

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.

Why does the U.S. continue to pursue the seemingly impossible goal of denuclearization with regard to North Korea? In part, it’s because we’re still locked into thirty-year-old rhetoric.

Donald Trump spent much of the past year touting the rising stock market, now he’s getting a lesson in reality.

When it comes to foreign policy, Donald Trump has no over-arching philosophy and little knowledge, so don’t expect anything approaching a coherent doctrine from his Administration.

The Trump Administration has acted in a manner to create the impression that there is “no daylight” between the United States and Israel. This is a myth, and pursuing such a goal poses real dangers for America’s national interests.

The recent cooling of relations between North and South Korea has led to some talk of eventual reunification, but for many South Koreans that idea is a non-starter.

The economy grew in the final quarter of 2017, but at a slower pace than earlier in the year and far slower than what the President has promised.