Outside the Beltway

Tehran-backed forces are routinely shooting at American forces.

America’s involvement in the Israeli and Ukrainian war efforts is more than advertised.

The timing is not auspicious.

A high-stakes move.

The 50th anniversary of the Yom Kippur war sees a re-escalation.

President Biden has ended a months-long impasse.

Normal diplomacy with an abnormal ally.

A wrongheaded if longstanding position.

The Biden administration is slowly ratcheting up the aid package.

A more dangerous world is changing the relationship.

As more details emerge about the documents he stole, defenders are falling away.

Moscow is playing a very strange game.

Normalcy is not a bad thing.

An embarrassing photo demonstrates the perils of leading the free world.

You’re goddamn right he did.

A splendid idea but why stop there?

A trailblazing diplomat has died at 84.

It’s hard to see how this crisis ends.

Two unclassified after-action reports shine a new—if one-sided—light on the evacuation.

A number of GOP politicians criticized Trump over 1/6 and some resigned.

Our ostensibly ally is working with our chief adversary against our interests.

The Biden administration is not doing enough.

Their case is less than persuasive.

While well-intentioned, the Chairman’s actions were illegal and dangerous.

An exceptional choice that breaks the recent tradition of politicos in the post.

Iran’s top nuclear facility is offline again.

We’re witnessing something not seen since 1989.

Women in national security circles love this woman.

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

The soldier who became a national figure for testifying against President Trump has had enough.

The President should have known about the plot. There’s a good chance he didn’t.

The Administration has done nothing about intelligence reports of a grave escalation from Moscow.

Presidents have appointed loyalists since time immemorial. Has this one gone too far?

In recent weeks the US has ramped-up pressure on Maduro.

President Trump has made plenty of mistakes handling this crisis. Let’s not invent dubious ones.

Political considerations overruled warnings from national security and health professionals.

Dueling Washington Post op-eds are sowing confusion.

President Erdogan is playing a dangerous game.

Tweets aren’t policy, unless they are.

A smaller staff is arguably a good idea. But not this way.

A bold new plan for security in the Middle East.

After months of delays, Trump’s former National Security Adviser John Bolton is now saying he’d be willing to testify if he were subpoeanaed.

For the third time in history, an American President has been impeached.

Ted Cruz is the latest Republican Senator to repeat discredited Kremlin-backed conspiracy theories about Ukrainian interference in the 2016 election.

Much like the President they obsequiously defend, Republicans have become useful idiots in Russia’s war on Western liberal democracy.

As Republicans and their conservative cohorts spread a discredited conspiracy theory about the 2016 election, Vladimir Putin smiles at yet another victory.

The final two witnesses in this week’s public hearings before the House Intelligence Committee reduced the Republican talking points in the President’s defense looking as absurd as they have always been.

As the walls close in, the President is growing more agitated.