Outside the Beltway

Alliance leaders have significantly different priorities regarding the conflict.

Many in the Global South see the war very differently than we in the West.

President Biden’s dangerous gambit seems to have succeeded.

Putin is losing but no one is winning.

And this time, we mean it.

Another bill doomed to die.

A natural disaster has compounded a man-made one.

The PRC is skirting sanctions to supply a frienemy.

The appetite for more resources approaches infinity.

Leftovers from last week and over the weekend.

An object lesson on the challenges of alliance politics.

We’re all gonna die, folks.

Swedish right-wing provocation and Turkish short-sightedness.

The Biden administration is slowly ratcheting up the aid package.

A more dangerous world is changing the relationship.

The Robespierres in the House of Representatives are driving American politics in a predictably horrible direction.

A controversial artillery round is being used effectively against Russian forces.

Russia is humiliated but not defeated. Ukraine is winning but at a very high price.

The Biden Administration wants clean energy but only for some.

Americans want some new choices.

Knowing what FNC is likely saying without watching FNC.

Breaking News

A 34-year CIA officer’s thoughts.

Twenty five alleged plotters have been arrested

A welcome development in a long and bloody war.

The Attorney General can’t please everyone, so he’s got to please himself.

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

James LaPorta is being scapegoated for poor editorial process.

Waaaay too little, waaay too late.

You know, Russia, Russia, Russia.

President Biden is being pressured to face the music after the midterms.

The Justice Department is looking to inoculate itself against charges of partisanship.

A deep dive into why our politics are so broken.

What will it take to end the cycle of violence?

A few stories to consider.

The attack at the Pelosi house should surprise no one.

The International Energy Agency forecast is gloomy for Putin and company.

A brilliant national security leader is gone too soon.

Three-and-a-half years and almost 6 million tax dollars have produced nothing.

The collaboration has been even more robust than advertised.

He’s using a tool he denounced as cruel to deal with a humanitarian crisis.

They’re hitting civilian targets partly because they can’t hit military ones.

Putin is committing war crimes in retaliation for an attack on a legitimate military target.

Things are not going well in the special military operation.

The threat is not idle and the options for responding are not good.

Can the unsustainable be sustained?

A phony annexation doesn’t hide that he’s badly losing his illegal war.

Eighteen HIMARS and what do you get? Years older and deeper in debt.

The CIA warned of his months ago but the Biden administration is being cautious.

Autocrats facing defeat have all kinds of counterproductive, dangerous ideas.