Outside the Beltway

What does “complete victory” look like?

As many expected, the initial returns from the Israeli elections are too close to call.

In what has to qualify as one of the most horrifying displays of moral depravity on the international stage, the Trump Administration is saying it doesn’t really care if the Saudi Crown Prince is a murderer or not.

The Russians are interfering in our electoral system again, and they’re using our own hyperpartisanship to accomplish their goals.

President Trump is choosing money and moral cowardice over human life in his response to the disappearance of Jamal Khashoggi.

ABC is bringing back Roseanne without Roseanne Barr. Whether that will prove to be a success or not remains to be seen.

Hours after she unleashed a racist Twitter tirade, Roseanne Barr has had her show canceled by ABC. Of course, ABC knew who it was doing business with well before today.

Americans actings as agents for Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates have been working hard to manipulate the President.

A horrible terror attack in Egypt.

A movement motivated by hurt and fear turned into a political force eight years ago. Can another follow suit?

Donald Trump’s speech yesterday at a meeting of the Republican Jewish Coalition was as bizarre as anything else we’ve seen from him.

The United States and Europe are giving everything the perpetrators of the Paris attacks hoped for.

Mohammed Morsi, Egypt’s first truly-elected president, has been sentenced to death by the government which ousted him in a coup.

The Atlantic has a fascinating cover story by Graeme Wood titled “What ISIS Really Wants.”

Well, so much for that “people’s revolt” that brought down a military dictator.

The First World War played an intriguing role in the birth of the radical Islam we are dealing with today.

Different name, same result in Egypt.

Nearly six months later, it’s hard to find any good in the July military coup in Egypt.

The U.S. sends a mostly weak signal to the Egyptian military.

In both Egypt and Syria, it’s damned if we do and damned if we don’t.

Walter Russell Mead explains why a well intentioned, carefully crafted and consistently pursued grand strategy failed.

Does interest in Egypt make the same sense it did 30 years ago?

Hundreds are dead as Egypt’s military government crack down on supporters of the democratically elected government they ousted.

The US backed Egyptian government is massacring supporters of the ousted democratically elected government.

The Who Lives In a Pineapple Under The Sea? Edition OTB Caption Contest^TM is now over.

Certain aspects of Egyptian civic life have improved rapidly in the wake of the military coup, raising at least some questions about the events leading up to it.

There is either a military government or an Islamist one in Egypt’s future.