Outside the Beltway

A brilliant journalist is gone at 44.

Sports fans enjoy watching sports. How much does politics impact that?

An unsavory practice that’s mostly legal.

Candidate quality can matter.

The retired general and think tank president is in hot water.

It’s not clear what has been achieved.

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

Lindsey Graham is the latest Senator to make clear that he’s already made up his mind on impeachment.

There’s apparently big news in the fight against ISIS.

So far at least, Elizabeth Warren is not doing a good job of articulating her foreign policy positions. That needs to change if she’s going to be a serious candidate.

Eighteen years after it started, the American public seems to be mostly ignoring the war in Afghanistan. But that isn’t an excuse for not bringing it to an end.

President Trump announced late yesterday that he had called off secret meetings with the Taliban. The fact that they were even going to happen reveals yet again what’s wrong with his foreign policy.

One of the most well-known architects of the modern era has passed away.

Taiwan has become the first nation in Asia to legally recognize same-sex marriage.

The Trump Administration is taking an unnecessarily militaristic approach toward Iran, and that poses real dangers for the country and for the Middle East.

We segregate men and women in sports for good reason. How we do that is complicated.

President Trump personally overrode the objections of security officials, the White House Counsel, and the Chief of Staff to make sure his son-in-law got a security clearance.

Federal prosecutors are investigating the Trump Inaugural Committee, adding to the long list of the President’s legal troubles.

As the Saudis continue to dissemble and put forward an utterly implausible explanation for the death of Jamal Khashoggi, the Trump Administration shows no sign of having a spine.

The investigation of the murder of Jamal Khashoggi is inching closer to Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman, but it seems unlikely to impact his hold on power.

Jamal Khashoggi’s final column includes a message that should resonate far beyond the Arab world it was addressed to.

Saudi Arabia is reportedly developing an explanation for the murder of Jamal Khashoggi that defies credulity.

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

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.

The new Secretary of State is an improvement over the worst Secretary of State in history.

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

Theresa May’s government has not hit Russian oligarchs nearly as hard as they deserve because the UK benefits from turning a blind eye.

The circumstantial case for corruption by Kushner is growing.

An emerging technology will take “fake news” to a whole new level.

The Trump Administration has acted in a manner to create the impression that there is “no daylight” between the United States and Israel. This is a myth, and pursuing such a goal poses real dangers for America’s national interests.

North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un is extending an olive branch of sorts to South Korea while simultaneously claiming success in achieving a nuclear deterrent.

The ongoing destruction of the Department of State

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.

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.

The background of the United incident, from an aviation law and policy perspective.

An initial setback for the Federal Government in its appeal of the ruling putting President Trump’s Muslim travel ban on hold.

Mitt Romney and Donald Trump became bitter rivals for the soul of the GOP in 2016, but Romney appears to be at the top of Trump’s list for the nation’s top diplomat.

Turkey has issued a formal apology to Russia over the November 2015 downing of a Russian jet that had briefly strayed into Turkish airspace.

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

If you were looking for evidence that the race for the Democratic nomination is basically over, you need look no further than last night’s Democratic Debate.

We are legally, morally, and practically obligated to respond. Let’s not do so stupidly.

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

In the wake of failure that could have been easily foreseen, the Obama Administration is ending a program to train so-called “moderate” Syrian rebels.

FIFA’s President surprised everyone today by resigning, but he’s likely to stay in power for as long as another ten months.

Several of the top representatives of soccer’s governing body have been indicted by a Federal Grand Jury in New York.

The war against ISIS continues to silently escalate, with little input from the people’s representatives in Congress.

While the world pays attention to Syria and Iraq, Yemen is once against lurching into chaos.

President Obama has opened a new front in his “war” against ISIS

A member of FIFA’s inner circle says Qatar won’t be hosting the 2022 World Cup after all.

The General Accounting Office confirmed what seems clear to anyone who can read a statute.