Outside the Beltway

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?

Once again, President Trump is going soft on Russia. Why? I’ll leave that up to the reader to decide.

While everyone is paying attention to the government shutdown, the Trump Administration is preparing for a never-ending, unwise, and unauthorized military commitment in Syria.

Two Republicans spoke out today against the President’s war on the news media, but don’t expect their colleagues to follow suit.

New York Knicks Center Enes Katner is at the center of an international legal dispute for speaking out against the President of Turkey.

Donald Trump’s foreign policy has been erratic, illogical, and demonstrated a clear disdain for diplomacy.

Ominous news for the Trump Administration today out of Federal Court in Washington, D.C.

Happy Thanksgiving!

The first shoes drop in the Mueller investigation.

The first shoes appear ready to drop in Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election and the Trump campaign.

America has become involved in conflicts around the world, largely without the knowledge of the American people or the consent of their representatives, and it doesn’t appear that’s going to end anytime soon.

Iraqi military forces begin to crack down against Iraqi Kurds after last month’s independence referendum.

Donald Trump is continuing to up the ante in his rhetorical war against one of America’s most fundamental freedoms.

The U.S is joining the rest of the world in refusing to recognize the independence referendum conducted by Iraqi Kurds.

Kurds in Iraq voted overwhelmingly for independence in a non-binding referendum, and the result is threatening to create a new conflict in the Middle East.

Another Cabinet member rebukes the President for his comments about Charlottesville.

The Daily Caller crosses a line and doesn’t seem to regret it.