Outside the Beltway

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.

Echoing the Obama Administration, the Trump Administration is arguing that it did not need Congressional authorization to attack Syria earlier this year.

President Trump’s attorneys have put forward a shockingly expansive view of the powers of the President.

In the Trump Era, the White House Press Briefing is becoming shorter and less informative.

According to reports, President Trump is preparing to go to war against luxury German cars.

Republicans are at least a bit more confident that they’ll hold on to the Senate this year.

Earlier this week, the Illinois legislature ratified the Equal Rights Amendment. What’s unclear is if this act has any meaning at all.

Donald Trump continues to claim that Mexico will pay for his still non-existent border wall. Mexico says otherwise.

Just over a week after he called it off, President Trump announced this afternoon that the June 12th Summit in Singapore was back on.

The President teased the Jobs Report an hour before it was officially released. This was both a violation of Federal law, and yet another example of this President violating long-established norms governing how politicians are supposed to act.

Donald Trump may or may not be racist himself, but he has most certainly exploited and helped widen racial divisions ever since bursting on the political scene in 2015.

A new book reveals President Obama’s initial reaction to Donald Trump’s election, and provides some detail about their first meeting.

May’s jobs report was stronger than the previous two months, but not entirely great.

The leading candidate for the GOP nomination for Tennessee’s next Governor has a unique explanation for gun violence.

President Trump has issued another controversial pardon.

President Trump is setting off another trade war, this time with some of America’s closest and most important allies.

President Trump is claiming that he didn’t fire former F.B.I. Director James Comey because of the Russia investigation, even though he admitted the exact opposite just weeks after it happened.

In the age of Trump, morality is optional for conservatives.

A new poll indicates that Texas Senator Ted Cruz isn’t as vulnerable as previously thought, and reminds us that Texas is still a very red state.

In an early morning Tweetstorm, President Trump said he would not have hired Jeff Sessions if he knew he’d recuse himself from the Russia investigation.

A new study suggests that the death toll in Puerto Rico from Hurricane Maria was much higher than previously reported.

The Republican Governor of Missouri is resigning amid growing accusations related to an extramarital affair, blackmail, and sexual assault.

Yesterday, the Supreme Court ruled that a police officer violated the Fourth Amendment when he conducted a search on a vehicle parked in a Defendant’s driveway without a search warrant.

Hours after she unleashed a racist Twitter tirade, Roseanne Barr has had her show canceled by ABC. Of course, ABC knew who it was doing business with well before today.

How far should judicial confirmation hearings go in asking potential Judges and Justices their opinions about issues that may come before them?

A small group of Senators is engaged in a seemingly quixotic effort to save DACA before the election.

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.

With one month to go in its term, there’s still a lot on the Supreme Court’s plate.

The 41st President has been hospitalized in Maine.

Poland makes the U.S. and NATO an offer they might want to consider refusing.

An inordinate amount of cruelty is being perpetrated in the name of border security. It’s only partly the fault of the current President.

The Trump Administration has lost track of nearly 1,500 children at the same time that it is implementing a new policy that will result in children who arrive at the border with their parents or other family members.

South Korea’s President is saying that Kim Jong Un has renewed his supposed commitment to ‘denuclearization,’ but it isn’t at all clear what that means.

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

Conservatives claim to support freedom of speech and freedom of expression, but they’ve utterly failed that test when it comes to their reaction to players who peacefully and respectfully kneel during the National Anthem.

The numbers suggests that the administration isn’t too interested in talking.

Alex Jones is finally being called on to answer for his irresponsible lying about events like the Sandy Hook shooting.

We have a generation of schoolkids who aren’t even surprised when there’s a shooting at their school. That’s a problem.

One day after canceling his summit meeting with Kim Jong Un, President Trump is suggesting it may be back on. Before it happens, though, there ought to be far more adequate preparation.