Outside the Beltway

States are sponsoring an increasingly controversial image.

Some great suggestions, same lame ones, and some missed opportunities.

A long-overdue milestone has been reached.

A illustration from the Senate race in Georgia.

A wackadoodle colonel is on his way out.

Many and small beats large and heavy. Finding beats flanking. Swarming beats surging.

Another morale booster for the good guys.

The service is taking a big risk but not without much discussion.

With masks off, political leaders are urging people to get out there and spend money.

A former classmate is going to be one of the US military’s most senior leaders.

A lone judge has halted the military’s vaccine mandate.

The Rogue Warrior is gone at 81.

Some 98 percent of active service members are now vaccinated. The rest will be discharged.

The Pentagon brass have defeated a supermajority coalition in Congress.

The next boot has dropped.

The Vietnam War hero and one-term Georgia Senator has died at 79.

Is media coverage of experts’ struggles to understand COVID helpful?

While 96 percent of airmen are in compliance, the service is about to get smaller.

The Assistant Secretary for Health has put on a uniform and become an instant Admiral.

The convicted criminal has taken his shenanigans to court.

The wonders of hindsight.

The President has lost his patience with the unvaccinated.

What we know of the American servicemembers killed.

We’re not getting Afghans—or even American citizens trapped there—out fast enough.

A new career and a pending art sale.

A meaningless gesture that’s long overdue.

An over-eager supporter or something more sinister?

The Supreme Court justice least concerned with precedent wants to overturn a longstanding one.

The flagship of the centrist Navy is both a throwback and a sign of what’s wrong with the Senate.

It’s harder than a looks, especially given the limited size of the problem.

Queen Elizabeth’s husband has died two months shy of his 100th birthday.

Immigration policy is harder than it looks.

In hindsight, there were more than a few clues.

Space Force took a year to decide what to call their uniformed members.

Peaceful protests were once again followed by nighttime clashes.

My latest for Defense One.

The iconic actor best known as the original movie James Bond is dead at 90.

The Toddler-in-Chief strikes again.

The similarities are obvious. The differences are more important.

My latest at War on the Rocks.

Can there be truth when there are consequences?

Presidents have appointed loyalists since time immemorial. Has this one gone too far?

Thomas Modly, the acting Secretary of the Navy, has embarrassed himself and must go.

In recent weeks the US has ramped-up pressure on Maduro.

A public health crisis turns into a public relations crisis.

Tweets aren’t policy, unless they are.

It’s a reasonable question but not the right one.

Nobody even agrees on what baselines to use.