Outside the Beltway

Early panic over the Brexit referendum was an overreaction. It’s time for statesmanship.

Hillary Clinton’s extreme carelessness with classified information probably won’t cost her the election, but it should.

One week after the Brexit vote, both the Conservative and Labour parties find themselves in chaos.

When it comes to the protections of the Fourth Amendment, it doesn’t matter if you’re “guilty” or “innocent,” it protects all of us.

An N.F.L. defensive legend has passed away at the age of 82.

Given the consequences of a Brexit, one wonders why the referendum didn’t require more than just a simple majority to pass.

Many pundits are arguing that the victory for ‘Leave’ presages good news for Trump in November, but there’s no reason to believe that.

Is Scotland next?

By a narrow margin, British voters have chosen to send their nation, themselves, and indeed all of Europe into uncharted waters.

Voters in the United Kingdom are headed to the polls in a vote that will have widespread consequences.

Congratulations Cleveland! Next month, you get Donald Trump.

The murder of Jo Cox, MP is looking more and more like a politically motivated assassination, and that’s causing some in Great Britain to look inward.

A freshman Member of Parliament was murdered today, and there may have been a political motive.

With just over a week to go, the latest polling shows voters in the United Kingdom leaning toward leaving the European Union.

Deflategate isn’t over yet and, depending on what happens in the Courts, could still be unresolved at the end of the N.F.L. season that begins in September.

An EgyptAir jetliner with 66 on board disappeared from radar just before beginning its decent into Cairo.

Another round of victories puts Donald Trump another step closer to the Republican nomination.

A Federal Appeals Court has reinstated the four game suspension imposed on Tom Brady over the so-called ‘Deflategate’ scandal.

The passage of a new law in North Carolina has revealed an apparent obsession among some on the right with who gets to use which restroom.

A group of New England Patriots fans are providing us with the latest example of stupid lawsuits that don’t belong in Court at all.

Bernie Sanders won two of the three Democratic contests last night, but he fell further behind in the delegate count any way and isn’t very far from being mathematically eliminated.

As expected, Donald Trump dominated Super Tuesday, putting himself one step closer to becoming the Republican nominee for President.

Donald Trump won his third contest in a row in Nevada, putting him one step closer to inevitability.

A man who helped create a multi-billion dollar a year industry, and some mighty fine wine, has passed away.

Donald Trump is trolling the depths of the Internet’s conspiracy dungeons once again. This time to raise the largely absurd argument that Marco Rubio may not be eligible to serve as President.

Britons will go to the polls in June to decide the future of their country’s relationship with the rest of Europe.

The reclusive author of one of the greatest American novels ever written has died at the age of 89.

China’s economy is still growing, but it’s most recently reported growth rate is slower than the nation has seen in quite some time.

Ten American sailors detained by Iranian forces late Tuesday were released early today, something that seems to clearly demonstrate the value of diplomacy.

Donald Trump’s plan to bar all Muslim immigration to the United States is being widely condemned by his fellow Republicans and others, but the proposal probably won’t hurt him politically in a Republican Party that is deeply bigoted against Muslims in general.

As we deal with the fall out from the attacks in Paris and San Bernardino, we need remember the years after September 11th, 2001 and avoid holding an entire religion responsible for the actions of fanatics.

Yesterday, the British Parliament debated the expansion of that nation’s military strikes against ISIS. For more than a year, our cowardly Congress has failed to even hold one debate or vote on America’s role in that conflict.

The British Parliament has approved expansion of that countries airstrikes into Syria, but it’s unclear just how much of an impact that will have on the ground.

A vote is still as much as two years away, and support for staying in the E.U. still has the most support, but support for the idea of a British exit from the European Union has grown in the past several months.

France’s President has spent the week trying to forge and agreement on an anti-ISIS policy, but the two nations that matter the most also disagree the most.

Another European capital is on edge over fears of a terror attack.

Barring some event that would essentially be historically unprecedented, Hillary Clinton will be the Democratic nominee for President in 2016.

Confirming speculation that had already been all but confirmed, we now know that it was a bomb that brought down a Russian passenger jet on October 31st.

Legislators in Spain’s Catalonia region took a step toward independence, but Madrid apparently wants nothing to do with it.

American intelligence officials are saying that a Russian passenger jet that went down over Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula was most likely brought down by a bomb.

A political earthquake north of the border.

If pre-election polling is to be believed, Stephan Harper and Canada’s Conservative Party seem likely to lose power after Monday’s elections, but there are several reasons why this may not end up being the case.

With Russia now launching its own airstrikes in Syria, it’s become obvious that U.S. policy in the Syrian Civil War is irrational and contradictory. And Russia’s policy isn’t any better.

With the exception of Rand Paul, the foreign policy discussion at last night’s debate was about as bad as you’d expect.

Britain’s Labour Party has taken a hard tilt left with the election of Jeremy Corbyn as leader.

A massive defeat in Court for the National Football League.

Congress is set to debate the Iran nuclear deal next month, but as far as Europe is concerned the debate is already over.

Not surprisingly, Tom Brady’s appeal of his Deflategate suspension was not successful.