Outside the Beltway

More of the wit and wisdom of the 45th President of the United States.

Evidence appears to clearly established that Russia used many of the same social media efforts it used in the United States in 2016 to interfere in the recent European Parliament elections.

Seventy-five years ago today, American soldiers and our allies undertook an invasion that helped change the world.

While the drumbeat for impeachment of the President continues on the left, political reality suggests caution.

The cost of Trump’s trade policies are well beyond the cost of soy beans.

Surprising pollsters and political analysts down under, Australia’s ruling center-right coalition pulled off a big win in Saturday’s election.

Free expression sometimes enables horrible crimes. How does a free society deal with that tension?

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

One hundred years after the end of World War One, the forces that led to it are waking up from a long slumber.

Angela Merkel announced yesterday that she would step aside as Chancellor at the end of her current term. What that means for the short and long term future of Germany and Europe is unclear.

The dispute over Ukraine between the Russian Orthodox Church and the Orthodox Patriarch is widening and nearing the point of a complete break.

Last week, the Polish President floated the idea of a permanent U.S. military base in Poland. It’s a bad idea no matter how you look at it.

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.

The right-wing government in Warsaw has purged more than one-third of the members of the Polish Supreme Court in a crackdown on political opponents.

The Polish Government has amended a controversial law that sought to punish people for discussing the role that some Poles played in the Holocaust.

The arguments in favor of a permanent U.S./NATO base in Poland are not very convincing.

Poland makes the U.S. and NATO an offer they might want to consider refusing.

The United States has joined Great Britain and much of Europe in retaliating against Russia for the attempted murder of a former Russian spy on British soil.

Poland’s new Holocaust legislation just keeps sounding worse and worse.

Despite what his own intelligence chiefs are saying, President Trump still does not believe that Russia interfered in the 2016 election.

Poland’s President has signed a controversial bill that purports to criminalize any effort to tie Poland to the Holocaust.

The Polish Government appears ready to approve a law that seeks to whitewash the truth about the role that many Poles played in the Holocaust.

Two Republicans spoke out today against the President’s war on the news media, but don’t expect their colleagues to follow suit.

After a long wait, gays and lesbians in Australia have achieved marriage equality.

Early on the morning of Sept. 26, 1983, Lieutenant Colonel Stanislav Petrov helped to prevent the outbreak of nuclear war.

Another escalation on the Korean peninsula.

Reports are indicating that President Trump may cancel or delay his trip to the United Kingdom due to planned protests.

A legendary statesman has passed.

After 100 days in office, President Trump has very little to show for his work except to show that there’s no reason to trust his judgment going forward.

It’s been a bad week for U.S.-Russian relations.

Another attack in what has been a bloody 2016 for Europe.

The situation in the Middle East just potentially became much more complicated.

Donald Trump resurrects an old debate and desecrates the Constitution in the process.

Another great loss for music in what has been a difficult year.

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

President Obama will leave office as the first two term President who presided over eight years of war. It didn’t start with him and it won’t end with him.

A horrific night in Dallas.

A man who survived great horrors to become a tireless witness for truth and advocate for human rights has passed away.

The eighth Democratic debate raises the question of whether we really need this many debates.

All of which leads to a discussion of electoral rules.

The news that at least some of the men who were involved in the terrorist attacks in Paris were among the refugees who have arrived in Europe since the summer is likely to complicate an already complicated situation.

The final effort to block the Iran Nuclear Deal failed in the Senate yesterday, meaning that the deal will now move forward.

With the exception of Rand Paul, the foreign policy discussion at last night’s debate was about as bad as you’d expect.

In what seems to be a clear signal to Russia, the U.S. is considering pre-positioning military equipment in nation’s very close to Russian borders.

After months of “not running,” Jeb Bush will formally enter the Presidential race on June 15th.

With major theater chains having pulled out, Sony bowed to the inevitable, but now there appears to be proof that a foreign power is behind the Sony hacking attacks and threats of violence.