Outside the Beltway

The UK’s longest-reigning monarch has passed, aged 96.

Many young, progressive Jews are feeling unwelcome in young, progressive circles.

With the government throwing its hands up, it’s now up to the citizenry.

The face of Fox News is not the bow-tied buffoon from his “Crossfire” days.

Let’s not start celebrating just yet.

A pioneering Black actor is gone at 94.

The flurry of news around the new variant is dizzying.

The effective number of parties.

Modern and Pfizer are your best bets, but most of the world has had other vaccines.

Counting is not necessarily as straightforward as it may seem.

Yet another COVID-19 strain has emerged.

Our response to Covid-19 has been exceptional in all the wrong ways.

There’s very little upside.

We are truly exceptional in how we choose the president.

Robert Mugabe led a nation to independence only to become a dictator who destroyed its economy, has died at the age of 95.

Donald Trump isn’t just admiring dictators now, he’s acting like one.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg isn’t very impressed by the proposals made by several liberal politicians lately to increase the size of the Supreme Court to counterbalance the conservative tilt created by the Gorsuch and Kavanaugh confirmations.

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

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

His passing is a sad reminder of another era of the Republican Party.

Pledges from wealthy men to help rebuild Notre Dame cathedral after a devastating fire is generating backlash.

Despite the obvious connection with the university’s namesake, the word does have other connotations.

New York attorney Aaron Schlossberg found himself on the receiving end of an Internet firestorm this week. His case raises some interesting questions about Internet vigilantism.

Celebrations and a deadly day in the Middle East.

The United States is apparently looking to Libya as a guide for upcoming talks with North Korea. The DPRK most likely sees the fate of that nation and its leader as a warning.

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

Nine years later, at least one member of the Norwegian Nobel Committee is admitting what seemed at the time a rather obvious fact.

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

President Trump has announced a new round of sanctions against North Korea, but they are unlikely to work given the unrealistic nature of the Administration’s current policy toward North Korea.

A Federal Judge In Kansas has blocked enforcement of a state law barring anyone who does business with the state from engaging in a boycott of Israel.

More provocative action from North Korea, and another reminder that there are no easy answers to the problems represented by the Kim regime.

A majority of her non-government visitors coincidentally donated to her nonprofit.

A man who survived great horrors to become a tireless witness for truth and advocate for human rights has passed away.

Concerns about the Zika Virus are leading some doctors to call for the 2016 Summer Olympics to be moved or postponed.

A word that has come in recent years to be used to refer chiefly to Muslim fanatics obviously applies to a man who murdered nine people because they’re black.

Nine people died overnight in a shooting at an historic African-American Church in Charleston, South Carolina.

The head of the Spokane NAACP has apparently been lying about her racial background, and that’s led to a whole other argument.

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

Trevor Noah will be the next host of The Daily Show. Who’s Trevor Noah? Exactly.

Senate Republicans have done more harm to the goal of stopping Iran from developing nuclear weapons than they have done good.

Has the legislative branch abdicated its responsibility in US foreign policy?

For a year that started out with regaining long-lost territory in Ukraine, 2014 is not ending so well for Vladimir Putin’s Russia.

Newly released documents reveal that Henry Kissinger wanted to attack Cuba in the mid-1970s.

Health experts are saying we could basically eliminate AIDS, or at least bring it under control, in fifteen years if we do the right things.

Some old fashioned political arm twisting has up-ended the apple cart in Richmond.

There’s little evidence for the conservative contention that the President has damaged America’s position in the world.

White House Press Secretary Jay Carney’s choices in home decor raise an interesting question.

In retrospect, and in comparison with other recent Presidents, George Herbert Walker Bush’s four years in office were pretty darn good.