Outside the Beltway

China’s Xi Jinping solidified his hold on power well into the next decade over the weekend.

Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee have released a memo that completely eviscerates the memo prepared by Committee Chairman Devin Nunes.

More than a dozen companies have ended relationships with the gun rights organization and protesters are demanding more follow suit.

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

The U.S. Army is once again embroiled in an internecine fight over hats.

The students who survived last week’s mass shooting in Parkland, Florida are speaking out, and some on the right are responding by engaging in personal attacks and spreading conspiracy theories.

Elliot Cohen laments the lack of steel in the spine of the statesmen, diplomats, soldiers, and thinkers of the current generation.

Donald Trump’s dereliction of duty in response to clear evidence of Russian interference in the 2016 election is a staggering and flagrant dereliction of the duties he agreed to take on when he took the Oath Of Office more than a year ago.

NRO’s David French offers “A Gun-Control Measure Conservatives Should Consider.”

President Trump’s tweets, other public statements, and actions are causing world leaders to doubt the reliability of the United States on the world stage.

Mueller tightens the screws even further.

A few key observations on the bigger picture.

The tragedy in Florida last week revealed once again how hyperpartisanship is destroying our politics and harming the country.

Even with yesterday’s indictments, President Trump still won’t acknowledge reality even though it’s staring him in the face.

Phil Carter makes an interesting argument but he’s ultimately mistaken.

The long-overdue redesign of OTB is now live.

From the F.B.I. on down, there were multiple warnings that could have prevented Wednesday’s tragedy in Parkland, Florida.

A significant and important development in the Russia investigation that shows that President Trump’s claim that the stories of Russian interference in the 2016 election were “Fake News” is completely untrue.

More security clearance problems for the White House.

To the surprise of nobody, Mitt Romney entered the race to succeed Orrin Hatch in the Senate. He’ll probably win.

Intelligence officials are warning that the Russians are set to seek to influence the 2018 elections just as they did in 2016. Despite this, the Trump Administration refuses to acknowledge this publicly while the President seeks to undermine the investigation into past Russian interference.

Friday’s eight-hour shutdown was not the non-event it seemed from the outside.

Administration officials are admitting that it’s likely that Russia will try to interfere in the midterm elections just as it did in 2016, but they don’t seem inclined to do anything about it.

The rise of ‘car sharing’ services has greatly benefitted consumers but had a devastating effect on taxi drivers.

Dodge is facing controversy this morning for using the words of Martin Luther King Jr. in a Super Bowl commercial, but they’re not the only party who may have some questions to answer.

The 2008 Republican nominee for president condemned his party and its president for the release of a controversial memo attacking the FBI.

Once again, President Trump is going soft on Russia. Why? I’ll leave that up to the reader to decide.

Do yourself a favor and skip the State Of The Union Address tonight. You won’t be missing anything important.

That “Romney for Senate” campaign seems pretty much inevitable.

Fortunately, yesterday’s missile alert in Hawaii was a false alarm. However, it is raising questions about the early warning system that’s in place and the state’s preparedness in case of an actual attack.

If you can’t beat a dead horse on a blog, where can you?

Donald Trumps’ tweets are the public statements of the President of the United States. This makes them noteworthy and often important.

Donald Trump’s latest Twitter rant is one of his most bizarre.

Anti-government protests are spreading in Iran.

Two months after a referendum that supported independence from Spain, Catalan voters head to the polls for a new round of parliamentary elections that remain up in the air.

A Trump judicial nominee who could not answer basic legal questions in a hearing last week has withdrawn his nomination, but this is likely to happen again unless the Administration fixes some obvious flaws in its selection process.

Yesterday was the seventy-sixth anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor. For most Americans, though, it was just another day. That’s only natural.

A fitting honor for women who have brought to light an issue that was swept under the rug for far too long.

A seventh woman has come forward to accuse Senator Al Franken of having groped her as calls mount from his Democratic colleagues for him to resign.

A not guilty verdict in a case that Donald Trump turned into a political issue.

For the second time in as many months, a Federal Court is blocking the Administration’s ban on transgender troops in the military.

After more than thirty years in power, Robert Mugabe is on his way out in Zimbabwe, but that doesn’t mean things will improve.

There’s growing evidence that Donald Trump’s tweets are hurting him but his aides have basically given up trying to control his Twitter habit.

No, we don’t have to presume that Roy Moore is “innocent until proven guilty.”

New York Senator Kristen Gillibrand says Bill Clinton should have resigned over his affair with Monica Lewinsky. Raising the question of just how stringently we should apply the standards of today to the events of the past.

It appears Russia attempted to influence last year’s Brexit vote in the same manner it did the 2016 election in the United States.

Since taking office, President Trump has made an average of 5.5 false claims per day.

Roy Moore’s most die-hard defenders are living in a world of their own, and it’s unlikely they’ll change their minds.

As a candidate, Donald Trump liked to claim that he only hired the “top people.” and said he would do the same thing as President. So far, it isn’t working out that way.