Outside the Beltway

In the end, the reason the Hanoi Summit failed is because the Trump Administration is pursuing an unattainable goal.

Early tomorrow morning, NASA and SpaceX will be testing a crucial part of America’s return to manned space flight.

Once again, President Trump proves that in the face of evil he is a coward and a disgrace.

The President of the United States and the most-talked-about freshman Representative in ages could not be more different.

Washington Governor Jay Inslee is running for the Democratic nomination for President on a platform primarily focused on climate change. Whether that helps distinguish him from a growing field of candidates remains to be seen.

Nancy Pelosi is tired of Democrats voting to please their constituents.

Happy Friday,

Former Vice-President Joe Biden isn’t officially running for President yet, but says his family is on board if he does.

President Trump personally overrode the objections of security officials, the White House Counsel, and the Chief of Staff to make sure his son-in-law got a security clearance.

The Supreme Court appears to be leaning toward letting a war memorial on public property stay in place.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is being charged with three charges of corruption even as he faces an election in just over a month.

Economic growth slowed significantly in the fourth quarter of 2018 from where it had been earlier in the year. And it’s likely to slow down even more.

Five things I think I think after the hearings.

Instead of merely seeking to block the President’s declaration of an “emergency” at the southern border, Congress should instead significantly amend the National Emergencies Act.

Michael Cohen pulled back the curtain and revealed much about the true nature of Donald Trump yesterday. It’s not a pretty picture.

The Texas Congressman has decided to forgo another Senate bid and instead focus his energies elsewhere.

The second summit between President Trump and Kim Jong Un ended early without any kind of agreement, signalling that no real progress has been made in talks between the two countries.

A Federal Judge in Washington, D.C. has upheld the Administration’s ban on bump stocks.

While the rest of the world looks at other events, tensions are flaring in a long-standing global hot spot.

American military intervention in Venezuela would make the situation in that country worse, not better.

Michael Cohen, the President’s former lawyer and “fixer,” is set to deliver several bombshells in his testimony before Congress today.

The House of Representatives voted yesterday to block the President’s declaration of an “emergency” at the southern border. Now the matter goes to the Senate.

The Supreme Court is set to hear oral argument in a case involving a World War I Memorial in the form of a cross on public land in Suburban Maryland.

Republicans face a choice in the coming days. Do they support the Constitution, or do they support Donald Trump? You can count on them making the wrong choice.

Based on his job approval numbers, President Trump could face an uphill battle in 2020.

While not subject to filibuster, it’s still subject to Presidential veto.

Donald Trump’s former lawyer begins three days of testimony before Congress today. By the time he’s done, he could end up doing real damage to the Trump Presidency.

Cardinal George Pell, the top Catholic Cleric in Australia, has been convicted of sexually abusing boys in the 1990s.

A 2016 Trump Campaign staffer has filed a lawsuit against the President alleging that she was assaulted by Trump during the campaign.

President Trump and Kim Jong Un hold their second summit in Hanoi later this week, but it’s unlikely anything significant will happen.

The populist Democrat won’t be hosting fundraising dinners. Until the general election campaign, at least.

Kevin Drum uses some clever sleight-of-hand to demonstrate a hard truth about the human condition.

After a decade of using the alleged problem of “voter fraud” to justify things like Voter ID Laws, Republicans are remarkably silent in the fact of an actual example of fraud and election tampering.

After two years of spitting in their faces, President Trump is finding it hard to get America’s European allies to come to his aid.

Breathless coverage of this freshman Congressman is getting tiresome.

A bipartisan group of foreign policy luminaries says there is no factual basis for President Trump’s claim.

I missed Friday, so here’s a later entry as the weekend wanes.

And if you don’t know, now you know.

Gun laws requiring guns to be taken away from convicted felons are either being ignored or have too many loopholes. We need to fix that.

US policy is creating nonconstructive confrontation.

Rather than pulling completely out of Syria the United States will be leaving behind a token force of about 200 troops. This is a mistake.

Now that women are allowed into all combat roles, the rationale for excluding them from Selective Service has evaporated.

Maryland Governor Larry Hogan continues to sound like someone seriously considering running against Donald Trump.

Grammar and spelling errors abound at all but a handful of news sites.

An interesting plot twist in the Goodloe Sutton saga.

There’s only one solution to the D.C. statehood issue. It’s called retrocession.

Steve King isn’t backing down from his history of white supremacy and racism. And he’s also running for re-election.

And I’d still prefer her to Donald Trump.

The 83-year-old is taking time off finishing his LBJ quintilogy to write his memoirs. Is that selfish?

A new poll shows that most Americans believe the Supreme Court’s landmark Roe v. Wade decision should remain the law on the land. Opinion on other abortion-related issues is more divided.