Outside the Beltway

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All of next season’s Thursday Night N.F.L. games will be streamed live for free via Twitter.

A series of bomb attacks across Brussels has left at least 26 dead, and dozens more injured.

The producer behind a group of music legends has passed away at the age of 90.

Britons will go to the polls in June to decide the future of their country’s relationship with the rest of Europe.

Good news for Jason Rezaian and four other Americans, and another example of how diplomacy can help resolve disputes that seemed irresolvable.

St. Louis will lose its second NFL team in 28 years as the Rams go home to LA.

David Bowie has passed away at the age of 69 after a long battle with cancer.

Last night, SpaceX successfully launched a rocket to the edge of space, deployed cargo, and returned to Earth. A huge and potentially revolutionary accomplishment.

Some analysts are already suggesting that Russia’s two month old intervention in Syria is becoming a quagmire. That seems to be a premature judgment, but it’s not accomplishing much more than anything the West is doing.

Donald Trump’s plan to exclude Muslims from the United States is provoking condemnation, and confusion, around the world.

NATO is extending full membership to the tiny nation of Montenegro, and there doesn’t seem to be a good reason why they’re doing it.

The British Parliament has approved expansion of that countries airstrikes into Syria, but it’s unclear just how much of an impact that will have on the ground.

France’s President has spent the week trying to forge and agreement on an anti-ISIS policy, but the two nations that matter the most also disagree the most.

A new poll taken in the wake of the Paris attacks finds Americans increasingly fearful of ISIS attacks in the U.S., opposed to the admission of Syrian refugees, and not very confident in President Obama’s ability to deal with the ISIS threat.

In the wake of the attacks in Paris, some people have argued that American solidarity with France, in contrast to seeming disregard for tragedy elsewhere, is something we should feel bad about. That argument is ridiculous.

France’s President blames ISIS, vows response, as death toll from Paris terror attacks stands at at least 127.

In the wake of failure that could have been easily foreseen, the Obama Administration is ending a program to train so-called “moderate” Syrian rebels.

The Club For Growth has released two ads criticizing Donald Trump, so of course Trump is threatening to sue them.

Britain’s Labour Party has taken a hard tilt left with the election of Jeremy Corbyn as leader.

Turkey’s governing party suffered big setbacks at the ballot box yesterday.

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Lindsey Graham says that, if elected president, he would summarily kill anyone thinking about joining ISIS.

Fresh off an election victory, British Prime Minister David Cameron is set to propose a series of new measures to crackdown on extremism that raise serious civil liberties concerns.

Seymour Hersh is out with a conspiracy theory about the death of Osama bin Laden that just doesn’t make sense.

With the election behind him, David Cameron’s biggest problems may be yet to come.

A plan to distribute migrants from the conflicts in the Middle East and North Africa across the entire European Union seems destined to cause political conflict.

The just-concluded British General Election was also a clash between two former top advisers to President Obama.

After weeks of polls predicting a political stalemate or worse, British voters delivered a strong win for David Cameron and the Tories.

The political outlook in the United Kingdom is as uncertain as it has ever been.

Nicola Sturgeon, leader of the Scottish National Party, could hold the key to the future of Britain in her hands after the election ends on May 7th.

While the issue of income inequality is quite real, Oxfam’s numbers are not.

The price of oil is continuing to fall, but it won’t last forever.

In the wake of the Senate Intelligence Committee’s report on C.I.A. torture, some have suggested that eight years of Jack Bauer helped make torture more acceptable to the American public.

For a year that started out with regaining long-lost territory in Ukraine, 2014 is not ending so well for Vladimir Putin’s Russia.

The Justice Department won’t force James Risen to testify in a legal investigation, but faces a new choice in a different case.

A New York City Grand Jury refuses to indict a cop who appears from all available evidence to choked a guy to death for no good reason.

Black Friday chaos has crossed the pond.

Vladimir Putin’s latest actions seems to have exhausted Germany’s patience.

Not surprisingly a Federal Judge has blocked New Jersey’s latest effort to legalize sports gaming. As a matter of policy, though, there’s no reason it shouldn’t be legal to place wagers on sporting events.