Outside the Beltway

President Trump has been tweeting up a storm since Sunday, raising a question. Should we view his Tweets as the rantings of a cranky old man, or as something more serious?

As he has in the past, Bernie Sanders will seek the Democratic nomination for Senate in Vermont but won’t accept the nomination if he wins.

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo delivered a bombastic speech on Iran yesterday that reveals just how empty and dangerous the Trump Administration’s policy toward Iran actually is.

Despite advice from advisers, the President continues to use unsecured devices to communicate outside of White House channels.

The former President and First Lady have struck a first-of-its-kind agreement to produce a wide variety of content for Netflix.

Although he came in third place in the GOP primary, Don Blankenship is now running as a third-party candidate and could potentially be a problem for Republicans in November.

When “reasonable suspicion” and free speech collide.

The new President of the National Rifle Association has a new theory to explain mass shootings, but there’s no basis for believing it’s accurate.

Russia wasn’t the only nation that sent people to meet with Trump Campaign officials at Trump Tower back in 2016 regarding assistance to the Trump Campaign.

New York attorney Aaron Schlossberg found himself on the receiving end of an Internet firestorm this week. His case raises some interesting questions about Internet vigilantism.

President Trump continues his unhinged, and unsupported by facts, war on Amazon and its owner Jeff Bezos by pressuring an independent agency to raise shipping rates.

In the wake of yesterday’s killing of eight in a Texas high school, WaPo’s Philip Bump provides a chilling statistic.

Trump suffered another court loss yesterday that opens him up to some potentially embarrassing questions.

After the Ronny Jackson disaster, President Trump has made a new selection for Secretary of Veterans Affairs.

Another school shooting, this time in Texas.

Just when you think the President has hit rock bottom, it gets worse.

As expected, Gina Haspel was confirmed as C.I.A. Director yesterday despite her controversial record when it comes to torture.

The effort by a group of Republican rebels to force a vote on a DACA bill is moving closer to success, but that may end up being the easy part.

The Mueller investigation turns one year old today and, despite the arguments of Trump and his supporters, there’s no sign that it will be coming to an end in the near future.

Backing up the nation’s intelligence agencies, the Senate Intelligence Committee said in a preliminary statement that it had concluded that Russia sought to aid Donald Trump’s campaign in the 2016 Presidential election.

President Trump’s latest financial disclosure finally acknowledges that he reimbursed Michael Cohen for the payoff to buy the silence of Stormy Daniels.

Robert Mueller has reportedly concluded that he cannot indict a sitting President. This is not a vindication of Trump, and merely upholds a conclusion that the Justice Department reached four decades ago.

The Supreme Court has declined to accept yet another Second Amendment case for review, continuing a streak that goes back some eight years.

The Senate Judiciary Committee has released a treasure trove of documents related to the June 2016 meeting between Trump campaign officials and a Russian lawyer, and they raise far more questions than they answer.

At least one red state Democrat will be voting against Gina Haspel.

It was never going to be as easy as the administration thought.

With a third Democrat crossing the aisle to support her, Gina Haspel now has the votes she needs to become the next C.I.A. Director.

Quietly, Mike Pence is seeking to create his own power base inside the GOP even as the White House pushes back.

The Supreme Court ruled that the mere fact that the driver of a rental car is not listed on the rental agreement is not sufficient to justify a warrantless search of the vehicle.

With the end of the Supreme Court term approaching, speculation about a Kennedy retirement is ramping up again.

Enforcing our immigration and drug laws comes at the cost of fundamental rights.

Celebrations and a deadly day in the Middle East.

A surprise announcement about the First Lady.

The former Senate Majority Leader had surgery in Maryland after an apparently early diagnosis.

A big win for Federalism and common sense at the Supreme Court.

For some reason, the President wants to help a Chinese company that has been accused of being a security risk by American intelligence services.

Don’t look for a Trump agenda for the rest of the year. It doesn’t exist.

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

The Trump White House has leaked more than any in recent memory. Some of the leakers have explained what motivates them.

The DNC is backing centrist candidates in a bid to win traditionally Republican districts. Party activists are not happy about it.

The number of Americans professing no religious affiliation is on the rise. This will have some interesting cultural and political implications.

When a President lies with the ease and regularity of Donald Trump, it’s the responsibility of all of us to call it what it is and not hide behind weasel words like “misleading.”

Oliver North is fitting right in at the N.R.A.

Joe Manchin looks to be facing a strong challenge from Patrick Morrisey.

Does the administration know what it is doing?

The Postal Service is losing billions of dollars, but not for the reasons the President claims.

The White House isn’t apologizing for an aide who made a joke about John McCain’s most likely terminal illness. That shouldn’t be surprising.

A writer at National Review is proposing a compromise on the issue of transgender rights. Needless to say, many conservatives aren’t very happy about it.