Outside the Beltway

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

A couple weeks ago, the North Koreans made a big deal about destroying their nuclear test site. It now appears that the event the media witnessed was less than meets the eye.

A long-overdue overhaul of the way the United States vets those who access classified information is underway.

Among the stumbling blocks to a DPRK nuclear summit: who’s going to pay for Kim Jong Un’s hotel room?

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.

The rules of American journalism haven’t caught up with the reality of this Presidency.

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.

The overwhelming success of the abortion referendum in Ireland is leading to calls for similar action in Northern Ireland, but it won’t be easy.

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 the President’s “Spygate” allegations standing largely discredited, his attorney and at the moment chief spokesperson Rudy Giuliani admits that the entire conspiracy theory was created to discredit the Mueller investigation.

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

Donald Trump chose to mark Memorial Day by talking about himself.

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.

Clashes between the US and Chinese navies in the South China Sea have intensified.

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.

Two days late, but here it is.

Alan Bean, the fourth man to walk on the Moon, has died at the age of 86

Just as they did three years ago when they legalized same-sex marriage, Irish voters turned out in record numbers to repeal the nation’s ban on abortion.

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.

Three Executive Orders signed ahead of the Memorial Day holiday has government employees scrambling.

American companies are struggling to comply with the EU’s new privacy regulation, with many outlets choosing to simply block access abroad.

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.

As we approach the third anniversary of the Supreme Court’s landmark decision in Obergefell v. Hodges, a new poll finds that two-thirds of Americans support same-sex marriage.

Former Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein has been charged with rape and sexual assault in a New York Court.

Jack Johnson, who was convicted of violating the Mann Act in a case obviously infected with racism, has been pardoned by President Trump.

Does learning that entertainers are bad people retroactively ruin their art?