Outside the Beltway

President Trump is touting his Photo Op Summit as the end of the North Korean nuclear threat. Reality is quite different.

Trump spent much of Tuesday praising a dictator who has murdered and imprisoned millions of people. Then he returned to attacking the democratically elected leader of one of our closest allies.

Virginia Republicans took a hard-right turn in yesterday’s primary. This is likely to benefit the Democrats.

GOP primary voters continue to reward staunch supporters of the President and punish those who get on his bad side.

His criticism of President Trump appears to have been a key reason.

Tim Draper’s fantasy will finally get a vote this November.

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.

The Federal Government is signing on to an effort by Texas and several other states to have the DACA program declared unlawful.

The Singapore Summit meeting between President Trump and Kim Jong Un was about as substance-less as most analysts anticipated it would be.

Not surprisingly, Canadians aren’t very happy about President Trump’s attacks on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

A seemingly innocuous change to a newspaper style guide has some significant implications.

The Trump Administration is declining to defend the Affordable Care Act in Court, arguing that the individual mandate is now unconstitutional because the tax penalty has been eliminated.

With the start of the Singapore Summit just hours away, it’s not at all clear what the respective parties can possibly agree to other than what amounts to a photo opportunity.

In Husted v. A. Philip Randolph Institute, Samuel Alito authored a 5-4 opinion ruling that removing voters from the rolls after four years is perfectly legal.

Democrats have adopted a new rule requiring future candidates for President to certify that they are Democrats, but it seems largely unenforceable.

Thanks to Donald Trump, the happiest man in the world right now is Vladimir Putin.

European alliance and Russian goals edition.

Hurricane Trump hit the G-7 this weekend, and the damage it left behind will take years to clean up.

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

And yet, Trump seems to think his gut is all he needs. This will not end well with North Korea, nor the G-7 (or any number of other things).

Former Trump Campaign Director Paul Manafort has been hit with a new round of charges.

Trump’s withdrawal of his invitation to the Philadelphia Eagles is just another example of his populistic nationalism. (And it isn’t healthy).

Donald Trump hinted that he’s considering a pardon for Muhammad Ali, but Ali doesn’t need a pardon.

Democrats on Capitol Hill are objecting to the proposed changes in the role of superdelegates in the party’s nomination process.

Trump’s suggestion to include Russia again in a new G-8 makes me wonder about a couple of things.

Another Federal Judge has held that the Trump Administration’s efforts to punish so-called ‘sanctuary cities’ violates both Federal law and the Constitution.

Political columnist and commentator Charles Krauthammer has weeks to live.

As he headed to the G-7 Summit, President Trump threw our ostensible allies another curve.

Donald Trump’s approach to international trade has nothing to with economics and everything to do with politics and the culture war he loves to provoke.

Most Americans disagree with Trump on the N.F.L. National Anthem protests, but Republicans are behind him.

He thinks his Constitutional rights are being violated. They’re not.

After a period where Republicans seemed to be closing the gap, Democrats may be widening their lead heading into November.

The Trump Administration’s School Safety Commission isn’t getting off to a very good start.

Once again, President Trump seems intent on insulting a major American ally.

“Winging it” isn’t how foreign policy should be made.

In what seems like an obvious response to the rise of the #MeToo movement and the cultural changes it has brought about, the Miss America pageant is making a major change.

Some legal scholars are speculating that the Court’s ruling in Masterpiece Cakeshop could impact the ruling on the President’s Muslim Travel Ban. This seems unlikely.

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

In the end, it may be insurance companies that have the biggest voice in the debate over arming teachers. 

It isn’t a primary and it is an illustration of how electoral rules affect behavior.

After three years of ethical and criminal charges, Bob Menendez got a bit of a slap on the wrist from New Jersey Democrats.

The arguments in favor of a permanent U.S./NATO base in Poland are not very convincing.

Senators hoping for a long summer recess have had their hopes dashed.

President Trump has unblocked Twitter users, but at the same time his lawyers are appealing the ruling that he can’t block Twitter users.

The new American Ambassador to Germany is making what clearly seem to be inappropriate statements about domestic politics in Europe.

The Federal Government will borrow more than $1 trillion this year for the first time in more than a half-decade.

President Trump waded back into the National Anthem debate when he revoked the invitation of the Philadelphia Eagles to come to the White House today.

Based on a strict reading of the Constitution, a sitting President probably does have the power to pardon himself. That doesn’t mean he should be allowed to get away with it without consequence.

In an exceedingly narrow ruling, the Supreme Court sided with a Colorado baker who refused to bake a cake for a same-sex wedding reception. However, the ruling did not address the broader issues raised by the case.

A week before he turns 94, the former President is out of the hospital.