Outside the Beltway

Sometimes all we have is the choice of how we react to events.

War crime does pay.

This is only “one alternative, and this is being murdered.”

On-campus classes have been suspended and Jewish students told to find safety.

Damned if I know.

Israel’s prime minister is defying red lines and humanitarian concerns.

The enemy of my enemy is still my enemy.

Hamas gets rewarded for its crimes.

It’s likely legal and almost certainly won’t matter.

An extraordinary look into warning civilians about impending attacks.

Muddled reporting of a messy situation.

The best statement on the complexity of the Israel-Hamas conflict that I have heard/read.

Thoughts after reading Part 2 of the Reuter’s series, “Slavery’s Descendants”

The rioting never seems to stop.

A welcome development in a long and bloody war.

A few stories to consider.

A great American author is gone at 89.

A precision drone strike on a balcony in Kabul took out a longtime nemesis.

Not only has the war changed, but so have the combatants.

Police and the Punisher Skull

The retired general and think tank president is in hot water.

Alas, it’s unlikely to change the policies that enable them.

An ugly divorce exposes a gap in our legal structure.

A Michigan jury believed the FBI created the crime.

Putin must be worrying about losing what little empire he has built.

The Russian leader is very unlikely to be hauled before the Hague.

Two notorious cases indicate a policy shift on federal prosecutions of cases already tried in lower courts.

What if the “fake news” is really fake news?

In the age of vaccines, should we stop worrying about the pandemic?

A possible murder plot in Colombia embedded into a problematic multi-decade narrative.

A just verdict—but just a verdict.

Two NeverTrump Republicans have had enough.

Humanitarian instincts rightly trumped security concerns.

We may be out of Afghanistan but the ‘war on terror’ is likely to continue indefinitely.

The postmortems are well underway.

A meaningless gesture that’s long overdue.

The Commonwealth is much more diverse than national election returns might indicate.

“If the conservative cause depends on the populist appeal of one personality, or on second-rate imitations, then we’re not going anywhere.”

Refuseniks are far more confident than those already vaccinated.

Judges are pressuring prosecutors to strike deals, most of which will be for misdemeanors.

A story that is both unserious and yet emblematic of our age in a serious way.

There’s a word for people who use outrageous violence to terrorize.

A silly, sexist WSJ op-ed has generated plenty of attention.

When an apolitical process gets politicized.

Saruman’s rigid arrogance ultimately made him pathetic. Sound familiar?

Holding the president accountable is hard.

Cops aren’t soldiers or spies but fellow citizens.

At what point does a demonstration become something else?

The regime’s crackdown on their Muslim minority is worse than imagined.

For the second time, the chief federal prosecutor for Manhattan has been fired.