Outside the Beltway

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

Author Sam Anderson puts forward a rather strange hypothesis in Politico.

With Martha McSally pulling off a decisive win, Arizona Republicans managed to avoid the disaster that likely would have occurred had either Kelli Ward or Joe Arpaio won last night.

Kofi Annan, who served as Secretary-General of the United Nations at the dawn of the “War On Terror,” has died at the age of 80.

Donald Trump’s vanity-seeking military parade has been postponed amid reports that the estimated cost has increased dramatically.

Donald Trump’s military parade will cost roughly the same as military exercises in South Korea he has previously called “tremendously expensive.”

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

The NATO Summit is going about as well as can be expected.

On the eve of the NATO Summit, President Trump continues to engage in tactics that seem to serve no purpose other than to undermine America’s most important and successful alliance.

Donald Trump continues to do something that Russian and Soviet leaders likely only thought possible in their wildest dreams, drive a wedge between the United States and its NATO allies.

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.

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.

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo delivered a bombastic speech on Iran yesterday that reveals just how empty and dangerous the Trump Administration’s policy toward Iran actually is.

Not surprisingly, the North Koreans are pushing back against American efforts to force them into a corner on denuclearization.

Barbara Bush, only the second woman in history to be the wife and mother of a U.S. President, has died at the age of 92.

President Trump isn’t reacting well to the raid on his attorney’s office.

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

H.R. McMaster appears to be on the way out as National Security Adviser. The important question is, who replaces him?

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.

President Trump’s military parade would come with a not insignificant cost.

Of course Donald Trump wants a military parade, it would be consistent with his delusions of grandeur.

Three women who attended Annapolis together are running for seats in Congress.

Americans were once largely united in their opinions about Israel and the Israeli/Palestinian conflict. That’s not the case anymore.

While everyone is paying attention to the government shutdown, the Trump Administration is preparing for a never-ending, unwise, and unauthorized military commitment in Syria.

America has become involved in conflicts around the world, largely without the knowledge of the American people or the consent of their representatives, and it doesn’t appear that’s going to end anytime soon.

With the Administration’s six-month point approaching, Donald Trump continues to lag in the polls.

Donald Trump’s first overseas trip went about as badly as you’d expect it would.

Iranian voters have re-elected Hassan Rouhani, a relative moderate whose election in 2013 was largely responsible for the shifts in policy that made the international agreement regarding Iran’s nuclear research program possible.

It’s not at all clear that there is a useful strategy at work here.

President Trump has actually made a good pick for National Security Adviser. As with the rest of his foreign policy team, though, the question is if he’ll listen to him.

A controversial retired General has been tapped to be President-Elect Trump’s top White House foreign policy voice.

One of the last survivors of Israel’s founding generation has passed away.

On his trip to Hanoi, President announced the latest sign that the Vietnam War is finally something both nations have manged to put behind them.

The Army Chief of Staff and Commandant of the Marine Corps told Congress that women should be required to register for the draft just like men are.

Another hopeful step forward, thanks to diplomacy.

Ten American sailors detained by Iranian forces late Tuesday were released early today, something that seems to clearly demonstrate the value of diplomacy.

The execution of a prominent Shi’ite cleric has led to a rapid deterioration of the relationship between Saudi Arabia and Iran.

Why hasn’t anyone else thought of this?

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.

Hillary Clinton’s recently announced policies toward the ISIS fight are as incoherent and misguided as President Obama’s and those of her Republican opponents.

America’s much touted international coalition against ISIS is, essentially a Coalition In Name Only.

President Obama has apparently come to the same realization as many of his predecessors, that trying to craft a legacy by single-handedly bring about “Middle East Peace” is largely a waste of time.

In a new book, former President George H.W. Bush is highly critical of two of his son’s closest advisers in the White House.

Any discussion of the Iran deal has to be about realistic alternatives, not fantasies.

The relationship between the United States and Saudi Arabia has seen better days.

Rand Paul bucks Republican orthodoxy on Iraq, Libya, and negotiations with Iran.

More than ever before, even mild criticism of Israel seems to be verboten among Republicans.