Outside the Beltway

If you’re tired of the restraint being shown by this President, you may be in luck.

Having journalistic integrity at the Fair and Balanced network has never been more challenging.

After a year in space, Astronaut Scott Kelly was no longer 100% genetically identical to his twin brother. However, the changes are not as significant as initial media reports made them out to be.

According to one insider, “There’s no leadership, no trust, no direction and this point there’s very little hope.”

Wisconsin-Stevens Point is shuttering 13 majors, including English, history, political science and sociology while expanding more job-oriented programs.

Individual races are idiosyncratic. But there are nonetheless some lessons here.

An estimated 200,000 Americans have Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis. Dental professionals are 23 times more likely to be afflicted.

Kids are more likely to be killed driving to school than shot while there. That doesn’t mean we shouldn’t try and prevent them.

Two seemingly contradictory essays out today highlight the exhausting political conversation environment.

Netflix no longer offers President Frank Underwood. They’re lining up a replacement.

How ‘tainted’ must a funder be before a charity is obliged to reject the donation?

We form stereotypes about generational cohorts when they’re very young and then freeze them.

China’s Xi Jinping solidified his hold on power well into the next decade over the weekend.

Mexico’s President canceled a visit to the United States for the second time since Donald Trump became President due to a continued disagreement over who will pay for Trump’s border wall.

Presidents are much more constrained in issuing and rolling back regulations than they or the public think.

A series of scandals at Oxfam and other charitable organizations raise troubling questions.

The tragedy in Florida last week revealed once again how hyperpartisanship is destroying our politics and harming the country.

Women voters are turning decidedly against Donald Trump, this could pose problems for Republican in 2018 and beyond.

The Judge presiding over a case dealing with Trump’s proposed border wall expressed doubts about the project. The President will no doubt be irked by the identity of that Judge.

Yet another top Trump administration official has resigned.

Recent polls have caused Republicans to become more optimistic about their chances in this year’s midterms. That optimism is both premature and misplaced.

A confusing new report from the Washington Post.

My latest for The National Interest takes a contrarian view on the new National Defense Strategy.

The 2008 Republican nominee for president condemned his party and its president for the release of a controversial memo attacking the FBI.

President Trump and his supporters like to claim that the economy has been booming since he became President. A look at the numbers reveals that this is not the case.

President Trump has alienated America’s allies and friends, and they are acting accordingly.

President Trump is apparently pressuring the President of South Korea to give him the credit for talks between North and South Korea that the United States isn’t involved in at all.

One year after his Inauguration, Donald Trump is the most unpopular new President since the invention of modern polling. However, his numbers are generally the same that they’ve been for some time now.

Two Republicans spoke out today against the President’s war on the news media, but don’t expect their colleagues to follow suit.

The GOP’s potential troubles in 2018 don’t just exist at the Congressional level.

The Trump Administration is reversing policy on an Obama Era policy that allowed states to choose their own course on marijuana laws.

With the results from Alabama. the GOP faces a hard road ahead defending its majority in the Senate.

The latest domino to fall in the ongoing wave of sexual harassment and abuse revelations is Matt Lauer.

Another big change for the Boy Scouts.

Stephen Paddock’s crime was clearly terrorizing, and will impact the lives of survivors, families, first responders in many ways for a long time. Based on the currently available evidence, though, the Las Vegas shooting was not “terrorism.”

Most Americans don’t support President Trump’s statements about the protests by N.F.L. players, but it’s just another example of him using hateful rhetoric to pander to his base.

Despite, or perhaps because of, his bigoted, radical, far-right positions on the issues, Roy Moore beat the sitting Senator from Alabama in a runoff election that essentially guarantees that he will win the General Election later this year.

President Trump’s job approval has improved slightly, but the numbers remain historically low for a newly elected President.

Yet another lawsuit against yet another controversial Trump Administration policy.

The ‘No Labels’ movement is back, and it’s as irrelevant to contemporary politics as ever.

Hillary Clinton has found another group to blame for her loss, educated white married women in suburbia.

Hillary Clinton’s latest memoir lashes out at those to blame for her unexpected loss.

A stupid comment about Hurricane Harvey cost a Florida professor his job.

A Federal Appeals Court has upheld the dismissal of a lawsuit filed by Gary Johnson and Jill Stein regarding their exclusion from Presidential debates.