Outside the Beltway

A new report confirms that the White House has indeed required staffers to sign non-disclosure agreements that are clearly not enforceable.

A gadfly candidate who has denied the truth of the Holocaust won a GOP primary in Illinois because nobody ran against him.

Breitbart News appears to be fading in terms of readership, but the alt-right politics it represents is not going away.

President Trump continues to obsequiously praise Russian President Vladimir Putin

The network’s longtime “strategic analyst” is “ashamed” of his association because they’ve become a “propaganda machine.”

The Nigerian terrorist group has released an unknown number of the 110 girls kidnapped from a boarding school last month.

Repeated studies have demonstrated their bias against women and minorities. Why do we use them to make employment decisions?

A man suspected in a bombing spree killed himself with explosives as authorities were closing in.

ESPN the Magazine has broken out the slide rule to rank the top athletes during its first two decades.

The Supreme Court appears ready to strike down a California law requiring Crisis Pregnancy Centers to provide information on abortion.

Sometimes, it’s all in the framing.

I hope Ben Carson has a comfortable couch at home.

Mississippi has passed a law that seems designed to directly challenge the underpinnings of Roe v. Wade.

Challengers to the Pennsylvania Supreme Court’s ruling on Congressional redistricting suffered two big setbacks in court yesterday that suggest that they’ve reached the end of the road legally.

A famous name enters the race to challenge Andrew Cuomo, but it’s unlikely she’ll have much of an impact.

A feel-good story is unlikely to have a happy ending.

A package exploded in San Antonio overnight. It was believed bound for Austin. It would be the fifth in a spree of bombings in the city this month.

We don’t yet have enough information to assign blame here. Naturally, that’s not stopping anyone.

As we wait for “an all-out snowstorm for the DC-to-Philly-to-NYC-to-Boston corridor,” a storm has already hit back home.

Joseph E. diGenova has touted the theory that rogue FBI elements have tried to frame Trump in the Russia probe.

The head of the House Intelligence Committee’s Russia investigation admitted yesterday that the committee was never focused on any potential evidence of collusion.

It may be time for transparency on pay structures so employees know what others in comparable positions are making.

A report in The Washington Post says that White House Staff under President Trump have been required to sign non-disclosure agreements.

The special counsel may be moving beyond the 2016 campaign and into post-election obstruction of justice.

To nobody’s surprise, Vladimir Putin has won re-election to another term as Russia’s President.

A D.C. lawmaker latches on to an insane conspiracy theory.

Local and federal authorities are investigating a spree of explosions terrorizing Austin, Texas.

If you’re tired of the restraint being shown by this President, you may be in luck.

Will Bunch wildly exaggerates the Cambridge Analytica scandal.

New reports indicate that Donald Trump’s lawyer Michael Cohen has been involved in efforts to keep Stormy Daniels from telling her story for at least the past seven years.

Things continue to look good for Democrats as we get closer to the midterm elections.

The family real estate business made tens of millions through shady dealings.

The fact that Andrew McCabe was fired before he could retire means that he will lose out on some significant pension benefits, but. contrary to some media reporting, he won’t lose his pension completely.

Things are looking good for Democrats in 2018, but there’s some speculation that Nancy Pelosi’s position at the head of the party in the House could be in danger.

Theresa May’s government has not hit Russian oligarchs nearly as hard as they deserve because the UK benefits from turning a blind eye.

A contest with no serious challenger will make him the longest-serving Russian leader since Stalin.

He’s been in the music business in some form or the other since 1985. He has been, it’s fair to say, the opposite of an overnight success.

Lawfare provides a balanced piece on the firing of Andrew McCabe.

Attorneys for the Defendants in the lawsuit filed by Stormy Daniels, including the President, have removed the case to Federal Court and are claiming that Daniels owes $20 million for her alleged breaches of a settlement agreement.

Less than 24 hours after the McCabe firing, the president’s attorney explicitly connects the move to the Mueller probe.

Not unexpectedly, Russia has retaliated for Great Britain’s retaliation for Russia’s apparent assassination attempt on British history.

One of the supposed “adults” in the Trump administration has no class.

The near-impossible happened last night, demonstrating why March Madness is the most exciting and most absurd way to pick a champion.

The FBI’s former deputy director was shamefully fired late Friday night, after which President Trump gloated on Twitter.

Three completely different songs featuring iconic artists.

This week’s photo.

Conor Lamb’s win in Pennsylvania’s 18th Congressional District has set off an inevitable debate inside the Democratic Party about how to approach the upcoming midterm elections.

The Trump presidency is the latest step in treating commentators like policy experts. It is all a manifestation of how the modern GOP is a populist party.

A new bombshell allegation in the Stormy Daniels affair.

H.R. McMaster appears to be on the way out as National Security Adviser. The important question is, who replaces him?