Outside the Beltway

Lyndon LaRouche, an eight-time Presidential candidate who ran a cult-like organization that spread bizarre conspiracy theories, has died at 96.

The President is blaming Democrats for the fact that so many of his Ambassadors have not been confirmed. The truth, of course, is quite the opposite.

President Trump has lost another one of his top advisers on the fight against ISIS.

The Trump Administration is reportedly preparing to withdraw the small contingent of American troops from Syria. If it actually happens, this would be a good move.

While most Hollywood blockbusters have male leads, films starring women actually do better on the aggregate.

Citing substantial cooperation, Special Counsel Robert Mueller is recommending no jail time for former Trump associate Michael Flynn.

Notwithstanding the temptation to do something, both the United States and NATO need to resist the temptation to get involved in the latest conflict between Russia and Ukraine.

National Security Adviser John Bolton offered an utterly absurd explanation for why he had not listened to the tape of Jamal Khashoggi’s murder.

Happy Thanksgiving!

As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly.

In what has to qualify as one of the most horrifying displays of moral depravity on the international stage, the Trump Administration is saying it doesn’t really care if the Saudi Crown Prince is a murderer or not.

The C.I.A. has apparently concluded that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman ordered the murder of Jamal Khashoggi. What will the Trump Administration do about this?

As the Saudis continue to dissemble and put forward an utterly implausible explanation for the death of Jamal Khashoggi, the Trump Administration shows no sign of having a spine.

It’s been a month since Jamal Khashoggi disappeared after entering the Saudi consulate in Turkey. The Saudis are continuing to lie about it, and the Trump White House is letting them get away with it.

Saudi Arabia’s story about the disappearance and death of Jamal Khashoggi continues to “evolve.”

The Saudi Foreign Minister expanded on his nation’s utterly implausible explanation for the death of Jamal Khashoggi

The dispute over Ukraine between the Russian Orthodox Church and the Orthodox Patriarch is widening and nearing the point of a complete break.

The Saudi Arabian Government is finally acknowledging that Jamal Khashoggi is dead. Their explanation for his death, though, is too absurd to be believed.

President Trump is heaping praise on a Congressman who physically assaulted a reporter.

The Saudis are now apparently getting ready to push out a fall guy for the death of Jamal Khashoggi, an explanation as absurd as all the others they have offered to date.

The evidence linking the Saudi Crown Prince to the murder of Jamal Khashoggi seems irrefutable.

President Trump is serving as a knowing apologist for a despotic regime.

Several of the men apparently tied to the murder of Jamal Khashoggi have close ties to Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.

Saudi Arabia is reportedly developing an explanation for the murder of Jamal Khashoggi that defies credulity.

Donald Trump is a coward and an apologist for evil around the world.

The Saudis have been awful for generations. Why this?

President Trump is choosing money and moral cowardice over human life in his response to the disappearance of Jamal Khashoggi.

The evidence against Saudi Arabia in the disappearance and apparent death of Jamal Khashoggi appears to be overwhelming.

Not surprisingly, it appears that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salam, who effectively runs Saudi Arabia under his father’s rule, is behind the apparent plot against Saudi dissident Jamal Khashoggi.

The evidence that Saudi Arabia murdered Washington Post columnist and American Permanent resident Jamal Khashoggi appears to be incontrovertible.

Last Tuesday, Saudi dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi visited the Saudi consulate in Istanbul to obtain a document he needed. He hasn’t been seen since.

President Trump’s second speech to the General Assembly of the United Nations wasn’t much better than the first, but it it did get the world laughing at us.

Seventeen years ago, America was thrust into a war that seemingly has no end.

With the Democratic Primary just days away, Andrew Cuomo’s Democratic challenger in New York is making headlines thanks to a rather odd culinary choice.

President Trump is alienating our allies and making friends with dictators, and the world is responding as you might expect they would.

The Virginia case against Paul Manafort went to the jury on Thursday, and now everyone waits for their verdict.

The Trump Administration has taken the latest step in a process that began in May with the withdrawal from the JCPOA. Where it takes us is anybody’s guess, but the probability of something going wrong is quite high.

For example, Turkey’s Erdogan.

At a minimum, Trump is betraying his oath of office. That is one hell of a minimum.

The NATO Summit is going about as well as can be expected.

A milestone for the nation’s oldest service academy, founded in 1802.

Turkey’s authoritarian leader is going to be around for a long time.

Celebrations and a deadly day in the Middle East.

Even the United Nations has given up trying to maintain an accurate estimate.

The United States has several options in Syria. None of them are good and one of them would be disastrous.

A woman who was fired after a photograph of her giving the middle finger to President Trump’s motorcade went viral is suing her former employer. She doesn’t have much of a case.

Turkish security personnel who assaulted peaceful protestors in America’s capital will go free.

CJR’s Dan Mitchell has a tiny quibble with a recent viral NYT thumbsucker. 

China’s Xi Jinping solidified his hold on power well into the next decade over the weekend.

Will Joe Arpaio cause the GOP to lose an otherwise winnable Senate race?