Outside the Beltway

Playing two-level games.

A more dangerous world is changing the relationship.

The one-time Juiceboxer is still annoying the mainstream media.

United States and People’s Republic of China forces are playing a dangerous game.

A 34-year CIA officer’s thoughts.

The threat is not idle and the options for responding are not good.

Can the unsustainable be sustained?

Eighteen HIMARS and what do you get? Years older and deeper in debt.

The President is getting hammered from all sides for stating the obvious.

What once seemed to be ‘saying the quiet part out loud’ is now administration policy.

After decades of exporting American jobs, corporations are bringing them home.

A 2020 blowout has long been presumed. But maybe it won’t happen.

The Speaker’s trip was reckless, needlessly escalating an already tense situation.

The competition is slowly ratcheting up.

Normalcy is not a bad thing.

The 79-year-old will be 80 on his next birthday.

They’re stealing our secrets and working to undermine our elections.

The President continues his recent penchant for saying the quiet part out loud.

The Biden Administration is constantly bragging about its actions against Russia. Is that wise?

The invasion has led to a series of proxy wars.

Vladimir Putin is banning commodity exports.

It’s hard to see how this crisis ends.

Pundits like Thomas Friedman struggle with premature prognostication.

A roundup of reflection on a somber anniversary.

American cheese will henceforth be known as liberté cheese. And not because of the metric system.

The postmortems are well underway.

A massive investment falls just short. This time.

An exceptional choice that breaks the recent tradition of politicos in the post.

His stale jokes about eating dog have drawn fire for years.

It’s time to up our protection game.

A little comparative politics.

Two new studies bring more questions than answers.

We are truly exceptional in how we choose the president.

Beijing is warning protesters in Hong Kong that it’s restraint in the face of protests is not without limit. However, it has few realistic options when it comes to how far it can go.

Andrew Yang has been a relatively unknown candidate for the Democratic nomination, but he’s slowly risen in the polls and raised more money in the second quarter than several experienced politicians.

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

If Hong Kong’s leaders thought protesters would be satisfied with relatively minor concessions, they have significantly miscalculated the situation.

In the wake of massive protests, Hong Kong’s government begins to back away from support for a controversial extradition bill.

Expanding on events that have been going on for months, two oil tankers were attacked today near the entrance to the Persian Gulf

Protesters flooded the streets of Hong Kong on Sunday over proposed change to the city’s extradition laws.

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

The President’s trade policies stand to benefit a lot of other countries, just not the United States.

After nearly a year, Trump’s trade policies are having their inevitable negative impact inside the United States.

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.

Clashes between the US and Chinese navies in the South China Sea have intensified.

The date and location of the meeting between President Trump and Kim Jong Un has been set, but there’s as much chance of failure as their is hope for success.

Republican chances to hold the Senate were boosted in West Virginia last night thanks to the fact that a fringe candidate was soundly defeated.

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.