Outside the Beltway

A misleading, annoying media trope that needs to go away.

Having exhausted their word list and the competitors, the contest ended with octo-champs.

The DPRK sent a message to the United States over the weekend, but it’s unlikely the President was listening.

This year’s graduating class at West Point includes a record number of African-American women.

President Trump is in Japan, and while there is is dismissing the seriousness of new North Korean missile tests that threaten Japan.

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.

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.

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

The Trump Administration still doesn’t have realistic goals for its negotiations with North Korea.

In the wake of the failure of the Hanoi Summit to reach any agreement at all, North Korea appears to be returning to old form.

Once again, President Trump gets taken for a sucker by the North Koreans.

In the end, the reason the Hanoi Summit failed is because the Trump Administration is pursuing an unattainable goal.

Once again, President Trump proves that in the face of evil he is a coward and a disgrace.

The second summit between President Trump and Kim Jong Un ended early without any kind of agreement, signalling that no real progress has been made in talks between the two countries.

President Trump and Kim Jong Un hold their second summit in Hanoi later this week, but it’s unlikely anything significant will happen.

The arguments against withdrawing American forces from Afghanistan are becoming weaker and weaker.

The date and location of the next summit between President Trump and Kim Jong Un have been set, but it’s hard to see what can really be accomplished.

As threatened late last year, the Trump Administration has withdrawn from the Intermediate=Range Nuclear Forces Treaty. This is a mistake.

President Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un will meet again in February, but it’s hard to see why.

Donald Trump continues to appear to advocate ideas that harm American national interests and benefit Vladimir Putin. Draw your own conclusions as to why.

In his annual message, Kim Jong Un sent a message to President Trump on denuclearization and the future of the Korean Peninsula.

The Pentagon is being ordered to draw up plans to withdraw roughly one-half of the American forces remaining in Afghanistan. It’s about time.

In what clearly appears to be a rebuke of the President, Defense Secretary James Mattis is retiring as Secretary of Defense.

The North Korean government is making clear what it means when it speaks of denuclearization, and its far different from what the United States means.

American troops have been in Afghanistan for seventeen years now, it’s time to bring them all home.

Not one war, but five.

President Trump is preparing to scrap a thirty-year-old treaty that marked the beginning of the end of the Cold War. It would be a foolish mistake.

President Trump got his revised version of NAFTA, but Canadians are less positive about the United States than they have been in at least twenty years.

President Trump is once again threatening to lower the tariff hammer on one of America’s most reliable allies and biggest trading partners.

Donald Trump’s trade war is helping China expand its diplomatic influence.

Reports about tension between Defense Secretary James Mattis and President Trump are becoming louder, and it’s being suggested that Mattis could be out of office after the midterms.

As problematic as some of what we know about the internal workings of the White House may be, it isn’t a coup.

Three months after the Singapore summit, evidence grows that North Korea is still making nuclear weapons.

A significant advance for LGBT rights in the world’s most populous democracy.

A new book by legendary Washington reporter Bob Woodward appears to contain explosive revelations about the President and the operation of the White House.

Donald Trump’s vanity-seeking military parade has been postponed amid reports that the estimated cost has increased dramatically.

Two months after the Singapore Summit, there’s no sign that anything substantive has been accomplished on the Korean Peninsula.

The Trump Administration continues to insist that North Korea is violating promises that it clearly never made.

The Trump Administration is falsely claiming that the North Koreans made commitments at the Singapore Summit that they clearly didn’t agree to.

Yet another sign that the Singapore Summit didn’t really accomplish much of anything.

A powerful political network is distancing itself from the Trump-dominated Republican Party.

The economy grew at an exceptionally strong pace according to the first estimate of GDP growth, but several caveats remain.

The President is apparently getting ready to take yet another ill-advised step in his ill-advised, economically illiterate trade war.

To the surprise of nobody other than, apparently, the President of the United States, the North Koreans are dragging their feet after getting what they wanted out of the Photo Op Summit in Singapore.

Donald Trump’s military parade will cost roughly the same as military exercises in South Korea he has previously called “tremendously expensive.”

Even if all he gets out of the Helsinki Summit is a handshake and a photograph, Vladimir Putin has already won.

More evidence that North Korea isn’t living up to the promises it made in Singapore.

A milestone for the nation’s oldest service academy, founded in 1802.

Trump’s deal-making prowess in NK and Iran isn’t too impressive.