Outside the Beltway

Another day, another plea agreement in the Mueller investigation. This one could prove to be problematic for the President.

With the primaries over, we can say that it’s been quite a successful year for women in politics.

As part of her position as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley has use of a rather lavish private residence. This is not a real controversy.

Some last minute dramatics in the Kavanaugh nomination fight, but it seems unlikely to impact the outcome of the nomination fight.

As expected, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo easily fended off a challenge from actress Cynthia Nixon. Let the Presidential speculation begin.

Former President Jimmy Carter is warning his party against drifting too far left as we head into the midterms and, beyond that, the 2020 campaign cycle.

President Trump claims that November will see a “red wave” rather than the “blue wave” that most analysts are expecting. There’s no evidence to support his hypothesis.

President Trump is apparently a Hurricane Maria Truther.

The Federal Budget Deficit is set to end the Fiscal Year close to $1 trillion, and to continue growing after that.

President Trump has made no secret of the fact that he is displeased with the performance of Jeff Sessions, but he could find it hard to replace him.

Mitch McConnell has a plan that could pose problems for Democrats fighting for re-election.

New evidence indicates that the same Russian backed bots and trolls that sought to influence the 2016 election are now attempting to exploit the social divisions raised by the N.F.L. players kneeling during the National Anthem.

With a new trial set to start in Washington at the end of the month, reports are circulating that President Trump’s former campaign manager is looking to cut a plea deal.

Three months after the Singapore summit, evidence grows that North Korea is still making nuclear weapons.

After spending most of his post-Presidency on the political sidelines, former President Bush is hitting the fundraising trail for GOP candidates in Texas and Florida.

Seventeen years ago, America was thrust into a war that seemingly has no end.

With less than two months to go before the midterm elections, President Trump’s job approval numbers are hitting new lows.

With the Democratic Primary just days away, Andrew Cuomo’s Democratic challenger in New York is making headlines thanks to a rather odd culinary choice.

Kevin Drum makes an important point.

Former President Obama took on his successor in his first major political speeches since leaving office.

The nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh is, effectively, assured. Democrats should be careful about how much further they push their opposition.

Just how far should White House staffers and civil servants go in protecting the public from an erratic president?

The #MeToo movement brings down the head of a Fortune 500 company.

As I have repeatedly noted: Trump is the leader of the Republican Party.

The fact that American officials talked with Venezuelans plotting a coup against the government of their country is a dangerous turn of events.

Trump has an autocrat’s view of justice.

Recent controversies over rules enforcement have some crying Foul!

A significant advance for LGBT rights in the world’s most populous democracy.

Thankfully, they chose not to help.

President Trump wants Jeff Sessions and the Justice Department to investigate the anonymous Op-Ed published earlier this week even though there doesn’t appear to have been a crime committed.

Former Trump campaign aide George Papadopoulos received a very generous sentence in return for his guilty plea.

Delaware Democratic Senator Tom Carper beat back a challenge from a ‘progressive” challenger in Thursday’s primary.

After four days of hearings, the fate of Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination to the Supreme Court seems assured.

A Federal Court has ruled that North Carolina can use its current Congressional District map for this year’s midterms notwithstanding a ruling that it is an impermissible gerrymander.

The GOP’s hold on the Bob Corker’s Senate seat in Tennessee may be in jeopardy.

The second day of questioning for Judge Brett Kavanaugh was a bit rockier than the first, but nothing happened that seriously threatens his eventual confirmation.

Donald Trump is a bad, inept, and potentially dangerous President. That doesn’t mean that a ‘soft coup’ inside the White House is the answer to the problem he presents to our democratic republic.

The first significant post-primary poll of the Florida Senate race shows a dead heat between Governor Rick Scott and Senator Bill Nelson.

Day One of questions for Judge Brett Kavanaugh went about as you’d expect.

In an extraordinary anonymous Op-Ed, a senior White House official describes a White House in chaos.

Donald Trump spent part of Labor Day engaged in yet another unhinged attack on his own Justice Department.

A new poll shows Tallahassee Mayor Andrew Gillum with an early, but slim lead, over Congressman Ron DeSantis in the race for Florida’s Governor’s Mansion.

The first day of the Kavanaugh confirmation hearings was much ado about pretty much nothing, but then that can be used to describe a process whose outcome is pretty much foreordained.

Another “progressive” victory over a longtime Democratic incumbent, but this one is a bit different.

Chicago won’t have Rahm Emanuel to kick around anymore.

Arizona Governor Doug Ducey has selected former Senator Jon Kyl to replace John McCain in the Senate.

A new book by legendary Washington reporter Bob Woodward appears to contain explosive revelations about the President and the operation of the White House.

New polling seems to show a significant shift toward Democrats in the upcoming midterm elections.

An Oregon state agency is suggesting that Walmart’s decision to restrict arms sales to bar people under 21, but over 18, from being able to purchase firearms violates state law.

The confirmation hearings for Judge Brett Kavanaugh begin today, but the outcome seems foreordained.