Outside the Beltway

The Russian leader may be looking over his shoulder after imposing a draft.

How much say should the community have in what’s included?

An embarrassing photo demonstrates the perils of leading the free world.

A new trial that might not have happened with a plea

Putin’s forces are in Kyiv.

Out of a sense of fairness, I gave a listen.

Let the browser be cleared!

They took notes on a criminal fucking conspiracy.

The weirdest goddamn story you’re likely to read today.

Eric Adams appears to have won a confusing race that isn’t quite over.

He was both the youngest and oldest man to run the Pentagon.

There’s got to be a better way.

The fact-checkers blew this one and blew it big.

Iran’s top nuclear facility is offline again.

Elected officials should not comment on ongoing legal proceedings.

Multiple indicators point to a decline in the representativeness of the American system.

America’s Newspaper of Record needs to figure out what it wants to be.

Tunisia is freer but poorer than it was before Mohamed Bouazizi’s desperate act.

We won’t have Sidney Powell to kick around any more.

The early reaction was premature.

The similarities are obvious. The differences are more important.

Of course he did.

The evidence is clear. Injustice feeds rage and rage sometimes boils over.

The Barr DOJ’s attempt to retcon the Flynn case has created a major problem for Flynn.

A look at the employment records of one of the men involved in the Ahmaud Arbery shooting.

Comparing South Korea to the US tells a lot about the failure of leadership in the US.

Do gay candidates have a special obligation to be leftists?

A promising new study.

President Trump’s threat to attack Iranian cultural sites would most likely constitute a war crime if he actually carried it out.

Boris Johnson’s Brexit Plan scored a big win in Parliament, which makes a January 31st Brexit essentially inevitable.

Boris Johnson and the British Conservative Party scored a huge win in yesterday’s General Election, while Labour walked away with its biggest defeat in a generation.

Donald Trump proves once again that there are no boundaries he won’t cross.

Nigel Farage’s Brexit Party is helping out Boris Johnson’s Tories. Sort of.

Brits will head to the polls for the fourth time in four years with the future of Brexit on the ballot.

With just days to go before the end of the month, the European Union has agreed to another Brexit extension. Before we get there, though, thee’s likely to be another General Election.

There’s far more good in technology than bad, but these days we seem to be far more focused on the bad right now.

Rather than getting a final vote on his Brexit deal, Prime Minister Boris johnson suffered another defeat.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson suffered a huge and historic loss in the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom.

Boris Johnson suffers a setback in court in Scotland, including a specific finding that he misled Queen Elizabeth II when he sought her permission to suspend Parliament.

Parliament is suspended for the next five weeks but it ended with Prime Minister Boris Johnson being handed historic defeats for an incoming Prime Minister.

President Trump continues to have an odd obsession with nuclear weapons.

A newly released report leaked from inside the British Government notes that a hard Brexit is likely to be a disaster for the British economy.

It looks as if Boris Johnson’s government could be looking to call for a snap election to he held in the immediate aftermath of Brexit.

The Trump Administration has effectively declared economic warfare against the government of Nicolas Maduro. It won’t succeed, and will further victimize the already suffering Venezuelan people.

Adding to the political headaches for British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, a new poll shows majority support for Scottish independence in Scotland as the United Kingdom stumbles toward Brexit.

Boris Johnson has been in office for barely a week and he’s already facing an existential political crisis.

Dozens of well-off students from the Chicago area are getting college subsidies.

Boris Johnson won the fight for the leadership of Great Britain’s Conservative Party and will soon become the next British Prime Minister. That was the easy part.

The Trump Era is raising doubts about many things, including America’s most important alliance.