Outside the Beltway

With just over two months to go until the March 29th deadline, British Prime Minister Theresa May is no closer to a Brexit deal.

Your treasures are your kids’ junk.

Before even taking office, Mitt Romney is taking on the President. It’s a good sign, but we’ll see what it leads to.

A filing in an unrelated case has apparently revealed the existence of a sealed indictment against Wikileaks founder Julian Assange.

American troops in Iceland for a military exercise were apparently quite thirsty.

The world loses a genuine war hero.

The current discussion about SCOTUS is a good excuse to look at how other countries handle these things.

Thanks to a combination of sensationalism and outright lies, a fairly conventional story about an annual protest march in Mexico was turned into Fox News fodder that raised images of an invading army of illegal immigrants.

The President’s new attempt to ban transgender Americans from serving in the military is as legally defective as the original ban was.

The Defense Department will reportedly recommend to President Trump that transgender members of the service currently serving in the military be allowed to continue serving.

The Trump Administration has reportedly finalized its order to the Defense Department regarding a ban on military service by transgender soldiers.

A step backward on civil rights from a President who claimed he would be a friend to the LGBT community.

The President is being fed “news” from questionable news sources, and that’s a problem.

Donald Trump has been President for nearly four months, but has yet to name Ambassadorial picks for many slots including several important posts.

The President gathered supporters around him, and blatantly lied to them, so as to increase support for his policies.

Norway is switching from FM Radio to digital broadcasting. A similar transition in the United States seems unlikely for the time being.

Concepts, basic applications, and even a bibliography! Merry Festivus, everyone.

The news that at least some of the men who were involved in the terrorist attacks in Paris were among the refugees who have arrived in Europe since the summer is likely to complicate an already complicated situation.

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

California’s legislature has approved a bill that would legalize physician assisted suicide in the nation’s largest state.

This is perhaps the silliest idea ever.

Bill and Hillary Clinton have done quite well for themselves of the speaking circuit.

A knowledgeable observer has a dim forecast.

Vladimir Putin’s latest actions seems to have exhausted Germany’s patience.

Vladimir Putin’s reception at the G-20 Summit in Australia has been less than warm thanks to recent events in Ukraine.

Sweden is set to recognize Palestine as an independent state.

Americans have long been lampooned for not speaking a second language. Now our cousins across the Pond are getting it, too.

A nation known for adopting new technology is behind the rest of the world in one interesting way.

It’s hard for a party to win four straight presidential elections. The Democrats may pull it off.

While the world watches Ukraine, Central Asia could also be an area where Russia may seek to expand its territory.

The Justice Department is reportedly not planning to prosecute Wikileaks founder Julian Assange in connection with the Bradley Manning case.

We spend more per capita than any other country in the world and yet we are outperformed on a key metric, life expectancy, by a large number of countries

President Obama seems to want to forget his red line.

Could anyone have imagined a decade ago a scenario when the United States would go to war with France by our side and England on the sidelines?

Absent DOMA, the Full Faith and Credit Clause would seem to make gay marriage legal across the land.

Not surprisingly, Edward Snowden has been formally charged in connection with the leak of classified NSA documents.

Shouldn’t medical advances available in Germany be available in the United States and vice-versa?

What’s going on in England and Sweden?

Recent comments from an FDA official raise the prospect that the agency is considering minor’s access to caffeinated beverages.

The main who coined the word “meritocracy” meant it as a pejorative term.

Ross Douthat says American women should stop being decadent and have more babies, explaining that raising children is easier than it used to be, so there’s really no excuse for women to be so selfish.

Let’s take a trip back in time to see what some conservatives thought 2012 would look like if Barack Obama were elected President.