Outside the Beltway

A majority of Americans want the President to stay in the nuclear deal with Iran. That’s unlikely to matter to him.

Rudy Giuliani is basically now suggesting that his client would be willing to set off a Constitutional crisis that would make Watergate seem like a picnic.

The prosecutor who came to national prominence jumping on the #MeToo bandwagon has now been run over by it.

A blast from the past as Oliver North, who was once at the center of a major Washington scandal, is named President of the National Rifle Association.

With the start of her confirmation hearings just days away, Gina Haspel’s nomination to be C.I.A. Director is by no means secure.

Regrets, he’s had a few.

National Republicans are increasingly concerned that an upstart, racist candidate who has unleashed personal attacks on Mitch McConnell’s family will sneak through and win tomorrow’s primary to decide who will face Joe Manchin in November.

Seven years after deactivation, the U.S. Second Fleet will be patrolling the North Atlantic again.

John McCain continues to bravely battle an aggressive form of brain cancer, but he’s already made clear that he doesn’t want the 45th President of the United States at his funeral.

They hired Israeli Private Investigators to dig up dirt on former Obama officials, including Ben Rhodes and Colin Kahl.

Eleven states plus DC, who have 172 of the 270 electoral votes needed to elect a President, are now part of the compact.

The incident involving Paul Ryan and the House Chaplain has raised some questions.

The facts in the Stormy Daniels affair continue to move in a direction that doesn’t look good for the President.

The former SecState is engaging in some shadow diplomacy.

While the Trump Administration slowly tries to remake the Federal Judiciary, states are moving to pass radical new challenges to Roe v. Wade.

After less than two weeks, former President George H.W. Bush is out of the hospital.

To paraphrase the late Dennis Green, he is who we thought he was. 

Rudy Giuliani tried to clean up the mess he created for his client earlier this week. He failed miserably.

Support for gun control spiked in the wake of the Parkland, Florida school shooting but it appears to be returning to more normal levels, and that’s bad news for gun control advocates.

No flowers this week.

After hastily removing the House Chaplain under unclear circumstances, Speaker of the House Paul Ryan has reversed himself.

The unemployment rate hit a point unseen since Bill Clinton was President in April, but jobs and wage growth remain tepid at best.

President Trump has told an astonishingly large number of lies since taking office.

In addition to his admissions about the Stormy Daniels matter, Rudy Giuliani also confirmed what we’ve known for awhile, that James Comey was fired because of the Russia investigation.

A new lawsuit seeks to have the 2012 DACA program declared unconstitutional.

Rudy Giuliani threw a live grenade into the middle of the Stormy Daniels affair last night, and he’s made things much, much worse for his client.

Stormy Daniels is suing the President for defamation after he accused her of lying about a threat made to her seven years ago.

Another one of Trump’s lawyers bites the dust, and hired someone with some very specific experience.

When it comes to a potential interview with Robert Mueller, President Trump faces risks no matter what form that interview takes.

Now that girls are joining the Boy Scouts, the organization has quite reasonably changed its name accordingly.

It’s been 441 days since Donald Trump held a full-fledged Presidential press conference. Does anyone care?

Remember Donald Trump’s strange doctor? Well, things just got stranger;.

The new Secretary of State is an improvement over the worst Secretary of State in history.

More signs of tension between President Trump and his Chief of Staff.

Nearly two-thirds of Americans support marijuana legalization according to a new poll.

Robert Mueller has some questions for the President, and the wide range of topic areas should worry President Trump significantly.

Israeli Prime Minister gave a speech yesterday designed to undermine the nuclear deal with Iran. The evidence was unconvincing, but the speech was really only aimed at an audience of one.

Republicans are worried about 2018, and they’re even more worried that they have a President who is refusing to acknowledge political reality.

Failed Senate candidate Roy Moore is suing several of the women who accused him of sexual misconduct during last year’s campaign.

The Vice-President’s personal physician accused Ronny Jackson of misconduct back in September, according to new reports.

It takes a whole lot of work to net small gains for underrepresented groups.

In a new book, Senator John McCain makes an announcement that everyone was anticipating.

The United States is apparently looking to Libya as a guide for upcoming talks with North Korea. The DPRK most likely sees the fate of that nation and its leader as a warning.

Is everyone critical of President Trump by definition on the Left?

President Trump’s on-again, off-again visit to Great Britain appears to be on again.

Andrew Sullivan wonders, “Will there always be an England?”

An oak sapling brought to the United States by French President Macron went missing over the weekend. The reason for its disappearance has been answered.

Despite the fact that President Trump’s continues to praise him, Ronny Jackson will not be returning to the White House as the President’s personal physician.

General (Retired) Michael Hayden has some harsh, and concerning, criticisms of the Trump administration.

There are reasons to be skeptical about the dawning of a new age on the peninsula.