Outside the Beltway

They have lost at least seven.

The term keeps on giving.

The President commits a Kinsley gaffe.

A trailblazing diplomat has died at 84.

Putin must be worrying about losing what little empire he has built.

A hundred Senators actually didn’t mean to change our clocks.

What will Zelensky, Putin, and the West settle for?

New evidence changes the story ever so slightly.

Ukraine’s leader wants more help than he’s going to get.

We can only hope.

The Russian leader is very unlikely to be hauled before the Hague.

Do you believe in miracles?

The most likely outcome is not a happy one.

More brutality from an ostensible US ally.

No casualties, American or otherwise, have been reported.

Strikes near the Polish border show the real possibility of escalation.

The BBC checks the facts.

Whether dupes or active participants, the damage is real (and points us back to 2016).

Yet another case where good politics yields bad policy.

Yet another casualty of the Ukraine invasion.

An incredibly isolated Russian leader is not interested in running the country.

The disintegrating military situation is leading to escalating brutality.

Vladimir Putin is banning commodity exports.

It’s hard to see how this crisis ends.

Putin’s war of choice has created a humanitarian nightmare.

Actions deemed unthinkable days earlier are suddenly mandatory.

Some speculation from the BBC.

A remarkable display of blaming the victim (by the victimizer).

One can see the faintest hint of a backbone in the former Vice President.

Putin is a monster, but he may also be just as irrational as the rest of us.

The ferocity of the global reaction to Putin’s invasion is stunning.

The Russian leader is isolated and under tremendous pressure.

Most people liked it more than I did.

The American President is once again leading the free world.

It might feel good but it has zero impact on Putin.

Pundits like Thomas Friedman struggle with premature prognostication.

Links and infographics.

Addressing an analytical pet peeve (and, more importantly, correcting a mistake).

NATO has stepped up in a pleasantly surprising way to resist the Ukraine invasion.

News and commentary of note.

Some of his numbers are worse than even Donald Trump’s.

Manhattan’s new DA seems to think he has a weak case.

Sanctions are already taking a toll. But the West could do more if it had the will.

Deterring Russia is a matter of principle.

The military threat is smaller, but the political one is bigger.

Putin’s forces are in Kyiv.

The first shoe has dropped.