Outside the Beltway

Rubio reportedly wants the gig.

It’s more than competition but less than war.

The courts would likely allow restricting a Chinese data mining operation popular with American teenagers.

A set of bills would fund Ukraine, Israel, and other bipartisan priorities while ticking of the MAGA crowd.

It must be another day that ends in a “Y”

Two related questions.

People around the world are more skeptical about governing institutions.

A long overdue strengthening of a key alliance.

A long-predicted threat has emerged.

Will wonders never cease?

The BBC’s security correspondent thinks so.

His critics are focused on the wrong problem.

It turns out, he wasn’t all that truthful.

Vivek Ramaswamy’s national coming out party was, well, interesting.

Xi’s government is taking a drastically different approach to the slowdown.

Our Pacific territories are giving more than they’re getting.

The US intelligence community and Silicon Valley are warning of a major threat.

He’s turned Russia from a G-8 member to an international pariah.

Do we have to pick one?

Debt-trap diplomacy has finally come home to roost.

Another bill doomed to die.

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.