Outside the Beltway

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

The House of Representatives passed a defense spending bill that seeks to limit Presidential authority when it comes to striking Iran and aideing the Saudi war on Yemen.

Joe Biden delivered his first major foreign policy address of the campaign. It’s not perfect, but it’s better than what we have right now.

Eight months later, the President and his Administration continue to refuse to acknowledge the truth about the murder of Jamal Khashoggi.

A possible way forward?

Not surprisingly, the President’s opening speech of the 2020 campaign was filed with lies.

As we head toward a potential crisis in the Persian Gulf, the consequences of the President’s lies are coming home to roost.

Four years ago, Donald Trump began his campaign for President. What has followed has been as bad as could have been predicted that day.

Expanding on events that have been going on for months, two oil tankers were attacked today near the entrance to the Persian Gulf

President Trump says in a new interview that he would be willing to break the law to get “oppo research” on an opponent.

Amusing results, and a history lesson, in a new poll

The State Department has barred American Embassies from flying the Pride Flag during Pride Month as has been the custom for several years.

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

Jared Kushner’s long-awaited Middle East peace plan is still awaiting release, but it already appears to be dead on arrival.

President Trump is reportedly planning to pardon several American servicemen convicted of war crimes, an action that would be an insult to everyone who has ever worn an American uniform.

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

President Trump’s foreign policy has largely been a failure, and there are specific reasons why.

While he campaigned on a message of restraint, Donald Trump has largely adopted the interventionist foreign policies of his predecessors.

Newly discovered evidence shows that foreign governments have expanded their leasing of space from at least one Trump-owned office building in New York City.

Former Vice-President Joe Biden is calling for an end to American support for the Saudi war on Yemen.

The President has hit a dubious milestone barely two years into his administration.

The Trump Administration’s policies toward Iran aren’t going to work, but that’s because they aren’t supposed to work.

The Wall Street Journal tries, and fails, to defend President Trump’s indefensible veto of the Congressional resolution regarding the war on Yemen.

President Trump has not surprisingly vetoed a Congressional resolution to limit American support for the Saudi war on Yemen. His defense for doing so is utterly absurd.

The Constitution’s invitation to struggle over foreign policy continues.

The Saudis tortured an American citizen, but the Trump Administration doesn’t care.

He conjures the imperialist past with such comments (and he doesn’t even use the term correctly).

A powerful Congressman successfully pressured a media giant to pull content. We should be worried.

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.

In a rare display of assertiveness in the foreign policy arena, the House voted yesterday to bar U.S. assistance in Saudi Arabia’s genocidal war on Yemen.

The publisher of the National Enquirer is learning that it may have been a mistake to go to war against Jeff Bezos.

More than any recent President, Donald Trump displays a tremendous amount ignorance about the world. Even worse is the fact that he seems proud of it.

In a small, but meaningful, step, the Senate has rebuked the Administration’s policies toward the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

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

French authorities are investigating reports that Russian interference may be helping to exploit and expand the five-week-old “yellow vest” protests.

The evidence against Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in the murder of Jamal Khashoggi continues to mount. Will the Trump Administration care?

National Security Adviser John Bolton offered an utterly absurd explanation for why he had not listened to the tape of Jamal Khashoggi’s murder.

President Trump’s job approval numbers continue to be worse than those of any President since the end of World War Two.

In what has to qualify as one of the most horrifying displays of moral depravity on the international stage, the Trump Administration is saying it doesn’t really care if the Saudi Crown Prince is a murderer or not.

The C.I.A. has apparently concluded that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman ordered the murder of Jamal Khashoggi. What will the Trump Administration do about this?

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.

It’s been a month since Jamal Khashoggi disappeared after entering the Saudi consulate in Turkey. The Saudis are continuing to lie about it, and the Trump White House is letting them get away with it.

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.

Saudi Arabia’s story about the disappearance and death of Jamal Khashoggi continues to “evolve.”

The Saudi Foreign Minister expanded on his nation’s utterly implausible explanation for the death of Jamal Khashoggi

Yet more evidence against the Saudis in the murder of Jamal Khashoggi.

The Saudi Arabian Government is finally acknowledging that Jamal Khashoggi is dead. Their explanation for his death, though, is too absurd to be believed.

The Saudis are now apparently getting ready to push out a fall guy for the death of Jamal Khashoggi, an explanation as absurd as all the others they have offered to date.

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

The evidence linking the Saudi Crown Prince to the murder of Jamal Khashoggi seems irrefutable.