Outside the Beltway

The 21st century’s most brutal conflict and the laws of war.

As memory of the Cold War fades, so does support for American primacy.

Normalcy is not a bad thing.

A long-overdue milestone has been reached.

The trailblazing soldier-statesman has died at 84.

The law and justice are frequently not the same thing.

An exceptional choice that breaks the recent tradition of politicos in the post.

Why isn’t Joe Biden President already?

Former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch described how the President’s allies intimidated her out of her position, while the President intimidated her live on Twitter.

This year’s Nobel Peace Prize Laureate comes from a part of the world that most people almost never think about.

Trump’s attacks on racial minorities are going to continue, and get worse, the closer we get to 2020. Because stirring up fear and racial resentment among white working-class voters is the only way he can win.

President Trump attacked four Democratic Congresswomen for engaging in exactly the same rhetoric that the President himself has over the years.

How insidious talking points spread in the modern media environment.

The President is defending his racist tweets against four Democratic Congresswomen, calling them Communists who hate America.

Trump opened his mouth and, once again, racist bilge came spewing out.

South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg laid out his foreign policy platform in a speech this week. It’s certainly an improvement over the current President.

The Trump Administration is reportedly preparing to withdraw the small contingent of American troops from Syria. If it actually happens, this would be a good move.

William Barr, who served as Attorney General under President George H.W. Bush, has been selected to replace Jeff Sessions as Attorney General.

Kofi Annan, who served as Secretary-General of the United Nations at the dawn of the “War On Terror,” has died at the age of 80.

In a ruling that largely relies on the authority granted by Congress to the President to regulate immigration on national security grounds, the Supreme Court has upheld the final version of the Administration’s travel ban.

A well-meaning journalist brushes off critiques by experts in the field. He owes it to his readers to keep learning.

Service members deployed to Algeria, Burundi, Cameroon, Chad, Congo, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Libya, Mali, Niger, Somalia, Sudan, South Sudan, Tunisia, and Uganda qualify.

Under Nelson Mandela’s leadership, the country made a smooth transition from apartheid. Now it’s going the way of Zimbabwe.

Another day, another Court ruling against the Trump Administration.

The Supreme Court agreed to hear the Government’s appeal of the Trump Administration’s revised Muslim Travel Ban

Some thoughts about why the president’s remarks on immigration are so problematic.

Late yesterday, a panel of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals issued a ruling striking down the latest version of Trump’s Muslim Travel Ban.

The Supreme Court is allowing the latest version of Donald Trump’s Muslim Travel Ban to go into effect.

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.

The capital of the purported caliphate declared by ISIS has apparently fallen, but that doesn’t mean the end of ISIS. In fact, it may make the group more dangerous.

Two Federal Judges have issued orders blocking the latest version of President Trump’s Muslim Travel Ban.

The Trump Administration has issued a new travel ban to replace the temporary one that expired late last week, but it still suffers from most of the same defects as its initial efforts.

President Trump took to Twitter again this morning and promptly shot himself in the foot.

The Administration suffers another defeat in defense of its effort to ban Muslim immigrants.

Thanks to anti-vaccination activists spreading false propaganda, measles cases are hitting record highs among the Somali immigrant community in Minnesota.

President Trump has issued a revised ban on travel from six predominantly Muslim nations.

The announcement of a new Muslim travel ban Executive Order has been delayed once again.

Another judicial slap at the Trump Administration.

Two new polls show that most Americans oppose President Trump’s ban on travel from seven majority Muslim countries, but that most Republicans support it.

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

A legal victory, at least for now, for opponents of Donald Trump’s ban on immigration from seven majority Muslim nations.

The first day of implementation of President Trump’s order barring immigration from certain Muslim nations did not go smoothly for the Administration.

As expected, Donald Trump yesterday signed Executive Orders targeting Muslims and refugees.

A true, albeit largely anonymous, hero of humanity has passed away.

A respected scholar has an interesting suggestion for fighting the Forever War.

The U.S. is poised to send troops to the front lines of yet another war we have no reason to be involved in.

Get ready for an expansion of the war against ISIS into Libya, because it’s probably not far away.

The probability that the shootings in San Bernardino were at least inspired by ISIS and/or other Jihadist terror networks is increasing.

America’s longest war continues.