Outside the Beltway

Sigh.

Don’t get your hopes up.

The Russian leader’s status as an international pariah is cemented.

Many in the Global South see the war very differently than we in the West.

The longtime journalist is gone at 100.

They’re hitting civilian targets partly because they can’t hit military ones.

The West continues to close Moscow off.

The American President is once again leading the free world.

A meaningless gesture that’s long overdue.

Those expecting Bernie Sanders’ agenda are sorely disappointed.

Tunisia is freer but poorer than it was before Mohamed Bouazizi’s desperate act.

Maybe it’s not going to be Michèle Flournoy after all.

The 46th President’s foreign policy team is taking shape.

How to translate understandable frustration at injustice into tangible reform?

Notwithstanding Russia’s weak position vis a vis the west, It’s Putin who seems to be winning.

The DPRK is promising a “gift” to the United States. The only question seems to be what form it will take.

WIth North Korea’s end of the year deadline for progress on talks quickly approaching, it is clear that the Trump Administration’s policies with regard to the DPRK have failed.

There’s apparently big news in the fight against ISIS.

ISIS is quickly taking advantage of the abrupt American withdrawal from northern Syria.

An iconic and honorable Member of Congress has passed away.

President Trump and North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un met at the Demilitarized Zone for what amounts to their third summit in a year. As with the previous two, there was nothing of substance accomplished.

Democrats are trying to rein in President Trump. It won’t work.

South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg laid out his foreign policy platform in a speech this week. It’s certainly an improvement over the current President.

This time on Venezuela

While he campaigned on a message of restraint, Donald Trump has largely adopted the interventionist foreign policies of his predecessors.

Former Vice-President Joe Biden is calling for an end to American support for the Saudi war on Yemen.

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

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.

The Wall Street Journal tries, and fails, to defend President Trump’s indefensible veto of the Congressional resolution regarding the war on Yemen.

President Trump has not surprisingly vetoed a Congressional resolution to limit American support for the Saudi war on Yemen. His defense for doing so is utterly absurd.

The Constitution’s invitation to struggle over foreign policy continues.

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

There’s a political scandal brewing in Canada just as that nation starts looking ahead to elections later this year.

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

Instead of merely seeking to block the President’s declaration of an “emergency” at the southern border, Congress should instead significantly amend the National Emergencies Act.

American military intervention in Venezuela would make the situation in that country worse, not better.

US policy is creating nonconstructive confrontation.

In a rare display of assertiveness in the foreign policy arena, the House voted yesterday to bar U.S. assistance in Saudi Arabia’s genocidal war on Yemen.

A filing in an unrelated case has apparently revealed the existence of a sealed indictment against Wikileaks founder Julian Assange.

American involvement in the genocidal Saudi war on Yemen is getting more complicated. This is a bad idea.

Through our so-called allies in Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, the United States is helping to destroy Yemen. It’s time for our support for that war to come to an end.

Yet another sign that the Singapore Summit didn’t really accomplish much of anything.

The Trump’s Administration’s rhetoric and actions have given the Iranians no reason to trust the United States going forward.

To the surprise of nobody other than, apparently, the President of the United States, the North Koreans are dragging their feet after getting what they wanted out of the Photo Op Summit in Singapore.

The supposed promises made at the Singapore Summit don’t appear to be working out in the real world.

In a ruling that largely relies on the authority granted by Congress to the President to regulate immigration on national security grounds, the Supreme Court has upheld the final version of the Administration’s travel ban.

President Trump is touting his Photo Op Summit as the end of the North Korean nuclear threat. Reality is quite different.

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.

Anthony Bourdain was a renowned chef, writer, television host, and storyteller. He also suffered from demons that ultimately caught up with him.

Echoing the Obama Administration, the Trump Administration is arguing that it did not need Congressional authorization to attack Syria earlier this year.