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Everyone's A Critic " Outside the Beltway
2+ hour, 53+ min ago (1287+ words) James Joyner " Tuesday, June 16, 2026 " 1 comment The Editorial Board of the FAILING NYT claims "President Trump Lost This War." The preliminary deal ending President Trump's four-month war with Iran is welcome but brings with it hard truths. Mr. Trump made a…...
A Quick Thought or Two on MOUs
1+ day, 4+ hour ago (666+ words) Steven L. Taylor " Monday, June 15, 2026 " 2 comments While I agree with the general notion that a lousy "deal" (scare quotes oh so very intentional) at this stage of this Iranian misventure is better than maintaining the status quo, I am finding the…...
Peace in Our Time? " Outside the Beltway
1+ day, 6+ hour ago (1705+ words) James Joyner " Monday, June 15, 2026 " 8 comments Wa Po (U. S. , Iran reach a deal to end fighting, both sides say): The United States and Iran have reached a limited deal to end months of fighting, according to President Donald Trump, a top Iranian…...
Satur Tabs " Outside the Beltway
3+ mon, 1+ week ago (968+ words) Steven L. Taylor " Saturday, March 7, 2026 " 2 comments The fantasy that we are always offered at the beginning is that we can choose what it is we are going to do " that we can control the situation we are going to create. And…...
(The Lack of) Public Support for Attacking Iran
3+ mon, 2+ week ago (464+ words) Steven L. Taylor " Sunday, March 1, 2026 " 5 comments G. Eliiot Morris has the numbers (Trump starts a war with Iran that few Americans support). Emphasis in the original: A You Gov snap poll fielded Saturday " the day of the'strikes" found'34% of Americans approve of…...
Proud Boys Have Nothing to Complain About These Days
9+ mon, 3+ week ago (812+ words) James Joyner " Saturday, August 23, 2025 " 3 comments NYT extremism and political violence correspondent Alan Feuer (In Trump's Second Term, Far-Right Agenda Enters the Mainstream): During President Trump's first turn in the White House, right-wing extremists like the Proud Boys were on the…...
Bloodshed, Bedlam, Squalor and Worse
10+ mon, 4+ day ago (1279+ words) James Joyner " Tuesday, August 12, 2025 " 8 comments I think that's right. That was certainly my impression of places like New York, Chicago, and DC from afar. Having been to the first two of those cities many times and worked in the last…...
Israel To Retake Gaza City
10+ mon, 1+ week ago (1223+ words) James Joyner " Friday, August 8, 2025 " 2 comments AP (Israel announces plan to retake Gaza City in another escalation of the war): Israel said early Friday that it plans to take over Gaza City in another escalation of its 22-month war with Hamas....
Concentration Camps Redux
10+ mon, 3+ week ago (1022+ words) Steven L. Taylor " Friday, July 25, 2025 " 1 comment A few weeks ago, I noted an essay by author Andrea Pitzer about her book on the history of concentration camps and the applicability of her work on contemporary US politics. Let me add the…...
Did Netanyahu Prolong the Gaza War To Save Himself?
11+ mon, 5+ day ago (624+ words) James Joyner " Friday, July 11, 2025 " 1 comment Patrick Kingsley, Ronen Bergman, and Natan Odenheimer make a damning charge in the NYT Magazine: "How Netanyahu Prolonged the War in Gaza to Stay in Power." The evidence is, shall we say, circumstantial. That's. .. pretty…...