Outside the Beltway

Contrary to the hopes of some, getting rid of Trump isn’t going to purge the GOP of Trumpism.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky finds himself in he middle of an historic American scandal, and with a new nickname.

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

President Trump wants to make a deal.

Under the Trump Administration, the American commitment to human rights around the world is basically dead.

How insidious talking points spread in the modern media environment.

Whether he knows it or not, Donald Trump is assisting the Russian leader in his goal of undermining the foundational institutions of democracy and freedom.

Not content with taking a wrecking ball to America’s trans-Atlantic alliances, the President is attacking our trans-Pacific allies as well.

The fight to determine the leader of the Conservative Party, and the next British Prime Minister, is down to two candidates, but there’s one clear favorite.

While the American media was paying attention to President travels and travails in Europe, there was another meeting taking place.

Thirty years ago, when the veterans of D-Day were still relatively young and still largely with us, President Reagan delivered one of the finest speeches of his Presidency.

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 says he wants to see men back on the Moon by 2024, but NASA thinks it’s going to take longer than that.

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio has entered the race for the Democratic nomination for President, making him the 23rd candidate in an already crowded field.

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

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

The legendary figure was in charge of strategic forecasting at the Pentagon for decades.

Notwithstanding President Trump’s tariffs, America’s trade deficit hit a record level last year.

Republicans are blindly loyal to this President in a way we have not seen before. They are likely to end up paying a price for that.

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.

The Trump Administration continues to drive a wedge between the United States and Europe, can it ever be repaired?

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

The American withdrawal from the I.N.F. Treaty gives Vladimir Putin exactly what he wants.

Despite the President’s claims, the American steel industry isn’t doing well at all.

A new blockbuster report implicates the President in no less than five Federal crimes.

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 a move that is likely to have political and international consequences, the Ukrainian Orthodox Church has officially severed ties with Moscow.

China has landed a probe on the far side of the Moon, the latest step forward in an aggressive Chinese push into space.

As the shutdown drags on, the President is digging in his heels even further.

It is sincerely disturbing that the POTUS has this level of understanding of history and foreign policy.

Notwithstanding the temptation to do something, both the United States and NATO need to resist the temptation to get involved in the latest conflict between Russia and Ukraine.

A confrontation at sea between Russia and Ukraine is increasing tensions in a long-simmering conflict.

President Trump recently blamed former President Obama for “losing” Crimea. It was never ours to lose.

One hundred years after the end of World War One, the forces that led to it are waking up from a long slumber.

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.

The Russians are interfering in our electoral system again, and they’re using our own hyperpartisanship to accomplish their goals.

Donald Trump is a coward and an apologist for evil around the world.

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.

President Trump’s second speech to the General Assembly of the United Nations wasn’t much better than the first, but it it did get the world laughing at us.

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

President Trump is alienating our allies and making friends with dictators, and the world is responding as you might expect they would.

Russia’s real goal in interfering in American elections may not have anything to do with favoring one candidate over another.

The 95-year-old elder statesman is slowly shedding his public reticence at the risk of the access on which he has built his fortune.

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

The NATO Summit is going about as well as can be expected.

On the eve of the NATO Summit, President Trump continues to engage in tactics that seem to serve no purpose other than to undermine America’s most important and successful alliance.

Donald Trump had to be talked down from considering military intervention in Venezuela.

The right-wing government in Warsaw has purged more than one-third of the members of the Polish Supreme Court in a crackdown on political opponents.