Outside the Beltway

Early on the morning of Sept. 26, 1983, Lieutenant Colonel Stanislav Petrov helped to prevent the outbreak of nuclear war.

At some point, it will be time to move on.

Donald Trump Jr. spoke yesterday with Senate investigators, and his answers raise more questions than they answer.

Another Trump lie.

New reports of Trump’s business ties to Russia are raising eyebrows.

President Trump’s Afghanistan policy sounds awfully familiar, and it’s likely to lead to the same results.

Donald Trump kowtows to Vladimir Putin yet again.

Vice-President Pence is advocating the admission of Georgia into NATO. That would be a bad idea.

President Trump is reportedly considering at least partly reversing one of the great foreign policy successes of the Obama Presidency.

A legendary statesman has passed.

Everywhere one turns, it seems, there’s Russia.

North Korea is threatening another nuclear test, the United States is threatening retaliation, and China is warning of a ‘gathering storm’ on the Korean Peninsula.

It’s been a bad week for U.S.-Russian relations.

An apparent terrorist attack in Russia’s second largest city.

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

Malaysian police have evidence that seems to clearly link North Korea to the death of Kim Jong Il’s eldest son.

Godspeed, John Glenn.

One of the Cold War era’s last dictators has finally died.

Even if you’re not sure who you should vote for, it’s obvious who you shouldn’t vote for.

One of the last survivors of Israel’s founding generation has passed away.

Much like their predecessors, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump have released only limited information about their health. It may be time for that to change.

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

Donald Trump responded to the attack on the Pulse nightclub by renewing his call to ban members of an entire religion from coming to the United States.

On his trip to Hanoi, President announced the latest sign that the Vietnam War is finally something both nations have manged to put behind them.

To the surprise of many, Russia’s President announced that Russia would begin winding down its six month old intervention in Syria.

Nancy Reagan was a crucial part what made Ronald Reagan the man he was, and today she passed away at the age of 94.

The godfather of the Responsibility to Protect doctrine has passed.

Some analysts are already suggesting that Russia’s two month old intervention in Syria is becoming a quagmire. That seems to be a premature judgment, but it’s not accomplishing much more than anything the West is doing.

After thirty years in Federal Prison, Jonathan Pollard is a free man. Make no mistake, though. Pollard is not, and never has been, a hero and he deserves to be remembered as nothing but the criminal that he is.

John Kasich wants the United States Government to create an agency to spread ‘so-called ‘Judeo-Christian values.’

We are legally, morally, and practically obligated to respond. Let’s not do so stupidly.

Legislators in Spain’s Catalonia region took a step toward independence, but Madrid apparently wants nothing to do with it.

Give Jeb Bush a DeLorean or a TARDIS and he’ll be traveling back in time to Hitler in no time!

President Obama has apparently come to the same realization as many of his predecessors, that trying to craft a legacy by single-handedly bring about “Middle East Peace” is largely a waste of time.

In a new book, former President George H.W. Bush is highly critical of two of his son’s closest advisers in the White House.

After 30 years in prison, Jonathan Pollard will be released later this year.

In bringing Holocaust imagery into the debate over the Iran nuclear deal, Mike Huckabee has displayed the intellectual bankruptcy of his position.

There are mutual embassies in Havana and Washington for the first time in 54 years. It certainly took long enough.

For the first time since 1961, there will soon be an American Embassy in Havana, and a Cuban Embassy in Washington. It’s well past time that this happened.

A well-founded fear of ISIS seems to be drawing many of the former Soviet Republics in Central Asia closer to Moscow.

A thirty-seven year long drought is over.

Seymour Hersh is out with a conspiracy theory about the death of Osama bin Laden that just doesn’t make sense.

Ben Carson doesn’t seem to know much about foreign policy or history. And he doesn’t belong on anyone’s list of serious Presidential candidates.

The Atlantic has a fascinating cover story by Graeme Wood titled “What ISIS Really Wants.”