Outside the Beltway

The chief diplomat of the United States isn’t very diplomatic (nor informative).

An American drone strike has taken out the head of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard, a move likely to significantly increase tensions across the Middle East.

Amid protests over American airstrikes, the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad has become a target.

Worrisome news for an American icon.

An interesting albeit dubious selection for Person of the Year.

President Trump said this morning that he’s fine with letting his trade war with the rest of the world continue all the way to the 2020 election.

Seeking to have a US citizen investigated by a foreign government based on innuendo is a major problem.

Donald Trump’s pardons of soldiers convicted of war crimes sends the wrong message to the military, to our allies, and to the world.

Trump takes credit for stopping his “friend” Xi from attacking Hong Kong protesters.

Hong Kong voters send a strong message to Beijing, and the world.

After months of anti-government protests, Hong Kong headed to the polls in record number.

Chick-Fil-A is ending its charitable giving to organizations that oppose LGBT rights, and conservatives are predictably freaking out.

Against the advice of his top military advisers, President Trump has cleared three American soldiers of war crimes, sending a horrible signal to the world and to the troops in the field.

Thirty years ago today, history took off in a brand new direction.

The National Basketball Association’s kowtowing to China hits American shores.

South Park mocked Chinese censorship so, of course, they were censored in China.

President Trump has reportedly pledged to Chinese President Xi Jinping that the United States would not speak out against Chinese actions in Hong Kong.

A conservative columnist argues the legitimacy of our system is in question.

Trying to nail down some basics about a very complicated situation.

It’s been one year since Jamal Khashoggi walked into the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, never to be seen in public again. We are no closer to justice in his case than we were a year ago.

Former Dallas police officer Amber Guyger was convicted of ,murder in the death of Botham Jean, an innocent man who was murdered for the “crime” of being in his own apartment.

A little bit of this for a little bit of that.

Jacques Chirac, who served two terms as President of France and was a strong opponent of the Iraq War, has died.

Parliament returns for a short period tomorrow, but there’s little time for those who hope to stop Boris Johnson’s plans to force a hard Brexit.

The reaction to Boris Johnson’s move to suspend Parliament to force a hard Brexit is mostly negative, but there appears to be little that can be done to stop it.

Once again, President Trump is doing Vladimir Putin’s bidding.

More than five years after the fact, the NYPD officer who applied an illegal chokehold that resulted in the death of Eric Garner has finally been fired.

Protests in Hong Kong have been going on for nine weeks now, but they are reaching a point where the patience of the leaders in Beijing is being tested.

Under the Trump Administration, the American commitment to human rights around the world is basically dead.

On a day that called for national unity and empathy, President Trump couldn’t help but revert to form.

Thanks to a ruling by the Puerto Rican Supreme Court, the island Commonwealth has its third Governor in less than a week.

Beijing is warning protesters in Hong Kong that it’s restraint in the face of protests is not without limit. However, it has few realistic options when it comes to how far it can go.

Embattled Governor Ricardo A. Rosselló has stepped down but succession issues surround the man who took the oath of office late yesterday.

Puerto Rico Governor Ricardo Rosselló is set to leave office on Friday, but his designated successor doesn’t want the job.

While much of the talk about Robert Mueller’s testimony has focused on the Trump campaign, there was another part to his testimony that brings attention to a far more serious threat.

After weeks of protests and years of frustrations, Ricardo Rosselló, the Governor of Puerto Rico, announced last night that he will be resigning from office.

California’s legislature has passed a law purporting to require candidates for President to release copies of their tax returns, but it’s likely to face legal challenges if it becomes law.

The Trump Era is raising doubts about many things, including America’s most important alliance.

A symbolic gesture sure to backfire

The government in Hong Kong keeps conceding ground to the protests that have taken hold in the city, but the protesters have more fundamental objections.

The ongoing protests in Hong Kong over controversial extradition legislation have taken a violent turn.

The Trump Administration unveiled new sanctions against Iran yesterday. They’re unlikely to accomplish the entirely unrealistic goals the President claims to have in mind.

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.

Pete Butttigieg has spent the past week dealing with a crisis back in South Bend. How he handles it could have a significant impact on his campaign.

The latest is about deportations

If Hong Kong’s leaders thought protesters would be satisfied with relatively minor concessions, they have significantly miscalculated the situation.

In the wake of massive protests, Hong Kong’s government begins to back away from support for a controversial extradition bill.

For 2020, Kansas Democrats are making some interesting changes to how they will have a say in he race for the Democratic nomination.

Protests in Hong Kong as police unleashed tear gas on protesters and authorities delayed a vote on a controversial extradition law.

Protesters flooded the streets of Hong Kong on Sunday over proposed change to the city’s extradition laws.