Outside the Beltway

The Administration is going to unveil a plan for a major reorganization of government agencies today.

Seemingly out of nowhere yesterday, the Commander-in-Chief ordered the Pentagon to create a fifth service.

Among the stumbling blocks to a DPRK nuclear summit: who’s going to pay for Kim Jong Un’s hotel room?

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo delivered a bombastic speech on Iran yesterday that reveals just how empty and dangerous the Trump Administration’s policy toward Iran actually is.

Enforcing our immigration and drug laws comes at the cost of fundamental rights.

61 percent of Americans have a favorable impression of a man who left office a failed president.

It takes a whole lot of work to net small gains for underrepresented groups.

Americans actings as agents for Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates have been working hard to manipulate the President.

To nobody’s surprise, Vladimir Putin has won re-election to another term as Russia’s President.

Theresa May’s government has not hit Russian oligarchs nearly as hard as they deserve because the UK benefits from turning a blind eye.

How ‘tainted’ must a funder be before a charity is obliged to reject the donation?

Once again, the Administration is walking back the President’s statements on a controversial issue.

Staffers are fleeing the administration like rats from a sinking ship.

President Trump continues to make irresponsible and dangerous threats in connection with American policy toward North Korea.

While the glass ceiling in high-level posts was shattered decades ago, men still dominate the field.

The White House’s immigration plan is facing opposition in both chambers of Congress from moderate and conservative Republicans alike.

A group of 21 states has filed a petition to review the F.C.C.’s recent net neutrality rule changes, but it faces an uncertain future.

Forget all the talk about a civil war in the Republican Party, the truth is that Republicans and conservatives have already surrendered to Trump and Bannon.

Even with the revelations of the last three weeks, impeaching the President is still largely a fantasy.

South Korea has elected a new President who breaks with his impeached predecessor in favoring dialogue with the North.

There’s been a palace coup at The Heritage Foundation.

An apparent terror attack outside Parliament in London.

President Trump has issued a revised ban on travel from six predominantly Muslim nations.

A controversial member of George W. Bush’s foreign policy team is up for a post in Donald Trump’s State Department.

Is Ted Cruz really the only alternative to Donald Trump?

The gun control regulations to be announced later today by President Obama later today amount to far less than the hype would lead you to believe.

Some analysts are already suggesting that Russia’s two month old intervention in Syria is becoming a quagmire. That seems to be a premature judgment, but it’s not accomplishing much more than anything the West is doing.

Europe’s anti-immigrant, xenophobic far right scored major victories in France yesterday.

A much stronger than expected October Jobs Report suggests that the Federal Reserve is likely to move on interest rates, and raises questions about how economic issues will play out politically in 2016.

What was promoted as major foreign policy speech by Donald Trump turned out to be more substance-free stream-of-consciousness rambling from an egomaniac.

Pope Francis’s new encyclical isn’t exactly being received positively by American conservatives, because they seem to be missing the point.

Turkey’s governing party suffered big setbacks at the ballot box yesterday.

It’s complicated. And probably not a scandal.

Chinese analysts are telling their American counterparts that North Korea’s nuclear arsenal is far more sophisticated than previously believed.

Modern Singapore’s founder passed away at age 91 earlier this week.

Ted Cruz kicks off with the first of what is likely to be a string of candidates getting into the 2016 race in the coming month.

The budget bill Congress set to pass Congress would effectively reverse the will of the voters of Washington, D.C., who just voted to legalize marijuana.

Always as many military personnel identify as Independents as with the GOP.

After a disappointing August, the jobs report for September showed the same good numbers we’ve seen for much of 2014.

The Israeli public if overwhelmingly behind the war in Gaza, and that means it will probably continue for awhile.

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

Preserving the filibuster.

It appears what we’ve got here is a failure to communicate.

“It’s complicated” has long been an option to describe one’s romantic status on Facebook. Now, it applies to one’s sex as well.

The Air Force can’t find enough people to volunteer to fly remote controlled planes.

The US Navy is moving transport ships near Egypt. Just in case.