Outside the Beltway

It was both the best speech Trump has ever given and the worst presidential address I can recall

Donald Trump’s job approval numbers are the lowest for any new President since World War II. That doesn’t bode well for his Administration’s future.

Stephen Miller said something very stupid on “Meet The Press” this morning.

Trump’s combination amateur hour/tough guy approach is not going to make the world a safer place, nor will it advance US national interest.

After a highly contentious nomination process, Jeff Sessions was confirmed last night as the new Attorney General of the United States.

By the end of last night’s oral argument, at least two of the three judges hearing the appeal of the stay on the President’s Muslim travel ban appeared to be skeptical of the Federal Government’s arguments.

Two new polls show that most Americans oppose President Trump’s ban on travel from seven majority Muslim countries, but that most Republicans support it.

An initial setback for the Federal Government in its appeal of the ruling putting President Trump’s Muslim travel ban on hold.

Donald Trump’s initial job approval numbers are lower than any President since the EIsenhower Administration.

A legal victory, at least for now, for opponents of Donald Trump’s ban on immigration from seven majority Muslim nations.

As expected, Donald Trump yesterday signed Executive Orders targeting Muslims and refugees.

A speech traditionally used to unite was instead a continuation of a divisive campaign.

The mystery of what happened aboard Malaysian Airlines Flight 370 may remain at the bottom of the Indian Ocean forever.

Survivors and family members of the Pulse Nightclub attack have filed what amounts to a frivolous lawsuit.

Ambassador Karlov is mostly likely not a modern day Archduke Franz Ferdinand.

Another attack in what has been a bloody 2016 for Europe.

The situation in the Middle East just potentially became much more complicated.

Three of the top four national security positions in Donald Trump’s Cabinet will be filled by retired Generals. This isn’t necessarily a good thing.

Kentucky Senator Rand Paul is speaking out against several of President-Elect Trump’s proposed Cabinet nominees.

A controversial retired General has been tapped to be President-Elect Trump’s top White House foreign policy voice.

On Tuesday night the Establishment won and won yuge. (From new OTB contributor, Michael Bailey)

In a call to supporters, Hillary Clinton blames her loss on F.B.I. Director James Comey

A late night attack at a shopping mall, and a suspect still at large have raised tensions in Seattle.

Just about two days after setting off bombs in New Jersey and New York City, a suspect is in custody.

An explosion that ended up injuring 29 people interrupted an otherwise quiet Saturday evening in the Chelsea neighborhood in New York City.

Donald Trump’s campaign is apparently finally acknowledging reality, although its claim that birtherism originated with the Clinton campaign in 2008 does not comport with the facts.

The sense of national ‘unity’ that existed in the wake of the September 11th attacks didn’t last for very long.

Another set of revelations shows that the Clinton campaign has yet to put the email story behind it.

As expected, John McCain easily defeated his primary opponent yesterday.

Things aren’t pretty inside the House of Trump these days.

President Obama’s ISIS policy has been far from perfect, but to call him a “Founder” of ISIS is to ignore both history and reality.

Looking at the Electoral College, it’s already apparent that Donald Trump’s campaign faces a daunting, perhaps impossible, path to victory.

Of course Donald Trump responded to a Gold Star Father in the worst possible way.

Hillary Clinton delvers a largely successful acceptance speech that caps off a convention that ran far smoother than its Republican counterpart.

Donald Trump started out his campaign by telling us that the American dream is dead, and he returned to those dark and pessimistic themes in his acceptance speech last night.00

A night of terror mars Bastille Day celebrations in France.

President Obama will leave office as the first two term President who presided over eight years of war. It didn’t start with him and it won’t end with him.

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

The wave of Ramadan attacks continues, including a strike near the second holiest site in Islam.

A third major terrorist attack inside of a week.

A third major ISIS-inspired or planned attack in three weeks.

A new poll finds strong public support for enhanced background checks and barring people on Federal watch lists from purchasing weapons.