Outside the Beltway

The Trump White House has leaked more than any in recent memory. Some of the leakers have explained what motivates them.

Republicans are worried about 2018, and they’re even more worried that they have a President who is refusing to acknowledge political reality.

President Trump’s job approval numbers remain historically low.

Yet more troubling news about the proposed citizenship question on the 2020 Census.

The United States has joined Great Britain and much of Europe in retaliating against Russia for the attempted murder of a former Russian spy on British soil.

From Europe to the Middle East, to Asia, America’s allies are concerned about what the selection of John Bolton as National Security Adviser means going forward. They should be, and so should every American.

There won’t be any tanks, but it looks like President Trump will get his military parade.

Responsible governance from the Golden State?

Was the 2016 contest unique, or are we destined to forever vote against the candidate we hate most?

President Trump continues to make irresponsible and dangerous threats in connection with American policy toward North Korea.

Elliot Cohen laments the lack of steel in the spine of the statesmen, diplomats, soldiers, and thinkers of the current generation.

Poland’s new Holocaust legislation just keeps sounding worse and worse.

Republicans spent the eight years of Obama Administration railing against fiscal irresponsibility. Now that they have power, they’re the ones being fiscally irresponsible.

Of course Donald Trump wants a military parade, it would be consistent with his delusions of grandeur.

Poland’s President has signed a controversial bill that purports to criminalize any effort to tie Poland to the Holocaust.

One of the oddities of military culture is the constan

Senator Mark Warner, Vice-Chairman of the Select Committee on Intelligence, says, “We Need Revolution, Not Just Evolution” in Security Clearances.”

Donald Trump lies about even the most trivial matters, How are we supposed to believe anything else he says?

The Polish Government appears ready to approve a law that seeks to whitewash the truth about the role that many Poles played in the Holocaust.

Yesterday was the seventy-sixth anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor. For most Americans, though, it was just another day. That’s only natural.

Most Americans are unlikely to remember John Anderson, but he was a harbinger of things to come.

Even a ceremony honoring American heroes wasn’t immune from President Trump’s habit of attacking racial minorities.

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.

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s decision to call a snap election pays off big time.

Early on the morning of Sept. 26, 1983, Lieutenant Colonel Stanislav Petrov helped to prevent the outbreak of nuclear war.

More provocative action from North Korea, and another reminder that there are no easy answers to the problems represented by the Kim regime.

President Trump’s Afghanistan policy sounds awfully familiar, and it’s likely to lead to the same results.

A loss for the world of comedy.

The fundamental premise at the heart of the immigration bill that President Trump backed earlier this month has no merit whatsoever.

After 200 days, President Trump’s job approval numbers are hitting new lows.

Donald Trump is unlikely to ever be a popular President, but that may not matter.

Donald Trump’s Presidency is young, but he’s already on track to become the biggest liar ever to occupy the Oval Office.

Donald Trump’s first overseas trip went about as badly as you’d expect it would.

Economic growth in the first quarter wasn’t as bad as first estimated, but it still wasn’t very good. And the future is unclear at best.

Roger Moore, who played James Bond for a longer period and in more films than any other actor to date, has died at the age of 89.

Another day in Court for President Trump’s Muslim ban.

A political surprise in Great Britain as Prime Minister Theresa May calls a snap election for June 8th.

Donald Trump is historically unpopular for a new President. What does that mean when his first foreign policy crisis comes, as it inevitably will?

Two new polls show Donald Trump hitting new lows in the polls as we get closer to his 100th day in office.

Just about two months into office, Donald Trump’s job approval number are worse than any newly elected President since World War II.

More stepping back from free trade and the established global economic order.

The president’s skinny budget would eliminate most funding for science and the arts to fund more Defense spending.

Part One in a series of observations about health care and health insurance in light of the introduction of the House GOP’s health care plan.