Outside the Beltway

President Trump’s summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin was an even bigger disaster than anticipated.

Forget the “republic v. a democracy” abstraction. The numbers show some serious flaws in translating popular will into government.

A reference point for the future.

The Strzok hearing provides a return to this timeworn favorite.

The Office of Special Counsel Robert Mueller has issued indictments against twelve Russian intelligence officials for election-related hacking, and in the process has shown most of the arguments made by the President and his surrogates regarding the Russia investigation are nonsense.

On the eve of the NATO Summit, President Trump continues to engage in tactics that seem to serve no purpose other than to undermine America’s most important and successful alliance.

The President is generating so much outrage on a daily basis that we’re missing important stories.

Recent polling finds that Americans aren’t feeling quite so patriotic right now. It’s understandable, but we shouldn’t give up hope.

The right-wing government in Warsaw has purged more than one-third of the members of the Polish Supreme Court in a crackdown on political opponents.

Andrés Manuel López Obrador, a populist from the left, rode a wave of populism and public disdain for the outgoing President to a landslide win in Mexico

There is a frustration and a growing sense that the American political system is illegitimate.

The current discussion about SCOTUS is a good excuse to look at how other countries handle these things.

Convicted leaker Chelsea Manning lost a bid for the Democratic nomination for Senate in Maryland, to the surprise of nobody.

Turkey’s authoritarian leader is going to be around for a long time.

A new survey shows that Americans are increasingly unable to tell the difference between fact and opinion. That’s a problem.

Madison was right about politicians and ambition. He just didn’t see the how it would all play out.

Either the President of the United States is a knowing liar or he is very easily duped. Neither is a comforting thought.

Another unilateral withdrawal from an international institution.

The Supreme Court avoided ruling on the merits of two partisan gerrymandering cases, but the issue will be back before them sooner rather than later.

The Department of Justice’s Inspector General found that former F.B.I. Director James Comey was ‘insubordinate’ in regard to the Clinton email investigation, but found no evidence of political bias at the Bureau.

Maine voters head to the polls today to pick nominees for Governor and several other offices, but the most interesting thing is way they’ll be voting.

Has the party paid too big a price to attract suburban voters?

Dan Coates, the Director of National Intelligence, has issued a strong warning that has received little attention.

The actions of the Trump administration are helping Russian-EU relations (to the detriment of the US).

The President’s constant attacks on the news media are meant for a single purpose, to undermine even accurate reporting about wrongdoing in his Administration.

This President lies on a daily basis. It’s time to start calling him what he is.

Just as they did three years ago when they legalized same-sex marriage, Irish voters turned out in record numbers to repeal the nation’s ban on abortion.

In an election that pretty much everyone agrees was illegitimate, Nicolás Maduro has won a second term as Venezuela’s President.

61 percent of Americans have a favorable impression of a man who left office a failed president.

Does the administration know what it is doing?

While longtime supporters have turned on the legendary attorney over his support of Donald Trump, he’s been astonishingly consistent.

For Donald Trump and his supporters, “Fake News” means any news that doesn’t shower enough praise on him.

Instead of attending the White House Correspondents Association Dinner last night, Donald Trump took his show on the road where he continued his long-standing attacks on the press. Unfortunately, it’s a message that resonates with his supporters.

A Federal Appeals Court has reversed a lower court ruling that struck down Texas’s Voter ID law as discriminatory against minority voters.

An essay from earlier in the year by Jacob T. Levy underscores some of the points I recently tried to make about democratic norms in the current era.

A longtime “Hillary Beat” reporter ruminates on what she and her candidate could have done differently in 2016.

The campaign-agnostic political science models predicted a toss-up in 2016 and again in 2020.

An attempt at defining the conversation.

Another early-morning edition of Late Night OTB.

Another Federal Court loss for gun rights activists challenging state laws banning “assault weapons.”

The Atlantic fired one of their few conservative voices for saying women who have abortions should be hanged. Was this beyond the pale?

A woman who was fired after a photograph of her giving the middle finger to President Trump’s motorcade went viral is suing her former employer. She doesn’t have much of a case.

A blog post and resulting Twitter exchange point to a larger problem in our political dialog.

News anchors at dozens of local stations owned by conservative-leaning Sinclair Broadcast Group were recently required to read a script mandated by corporate headquarters, and it’s leading to some bad media coverage for Sinclair.

Under the proposal certain visa-seekers (such as China and India) would have to have their social media presence scrutinized.

As a general rule, Presidents are entitled to have a Cabinet and advisers he is comfortable with, but a Cabinet full of “yes men” is not ideal with any President, and certainly not with this one.

California has pushed back quickly against the Trump Administration’s decision to include a question regarding citizenship in the 2020 Census.

Critics warn this move would lead to a drastic undercount of Hispanic voters, impacting Congressional districting, federal programs, and more.

Republicans on Capitol Hill worried about all the leaking coming from the Trump White House would be wise to actually do the oversight the Constitution compels them to do.

Challengers to the Pennsylvania Supreme Court’s ruling on Congressional redistricting suffered two big setbacks in court yesterday that suggest that they’ve reached the end of the road legally.