Outside the Beltway

We’re all gonna die, folks.

Swedish right-wing provocation and Turkish short-sightedness.

The Biden administration is slowly ratcheting up the aid package.

A more dangerous world is changing the relationship.

A controversial artillery round is being used effectively against Russian forces.

The US Government has reluctantly decided to spell an ally’s name they way they prefer.

Russia is humiliated but not defeated. Ukraine is winning but at a very high price.

A 4155-page, $1.65 trillion dollar budget deal has been reached.

A legal but unsavory solution to a problem.

Americans want some new choices.

Prices are coming down but they’re way higher than they were.

A 34-year CIA officer’s thoughts.

A welcome development in a long and bloody war.

Washington has imposed a contract that workers rejected.

James LaPorta is being scapegoated for poor editorial process.

Most don’t even know it passed!

A few stories to consider.

The International Energy Agency forecast is gloomy for Putin and company.

She is the shortest-tenured Prime Minister in British history.

The largest adjustment since the tax code was indexed in 1985.

The collaboration has been even more robust than advertised.

He’s using a tool he denounced as cruel to deal with a humanitarian crisis.

They’re hitting civilian targets partly because they can’t hit military ones.

Putin is committing war crimes in retaliation for an attack on a legitimate military target.

Things are not going well in the special military operation.

The threat is not idle and the options for responding are not good.

Can the unsustainable be sustained?

A phony annexation doesn’t hide that he’s badly losing his illegal war.

Eighteen HIMARS and what do you get? Years older and deeper in debt.

The CIA warned of his months ago but the Biden administration is being cautious.

Autocrats facing defeat have all kinds of counterproductive, dangerous ideas.

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

Putin provides an example for a Politics 101 class.

Democratic backsliding appears to be spreading to another European country.

The ayatollahs face the biggest challenge to their authority in the history of the regime.

What once seemed to be ‘saying the quiet part out loud’ is now administration policy.

There’s plenty of reason for optimism.

It’s much bigger than it appears.

Russian forces have been forced out of two logistical support hubs.

The last Soviet leader is gone at 91.

The bloody conflict could go on for months, if not years.

After decades of exporting American jobs, corporations are bringing them home.

From a WaPo piece on the FSB and Ukraine.

A 2020 blowout has long been presumed. But maybe it won’t happen.

It’s complicated, hard to prove, and politically fraught.

The U.S. average is under $4 for the first time in months.

“America can survive the demagogues themselves, it’s their audience that will kill us.”

Instead of a clenched fist of support, it was a big middle finger to Sweden and Finland.