Outside the Beltway

A new poll shows that a majority of Americans oppose the American Health Care Act.

Evidence continues to mount that the Russia investigation was the real motivation for President Trump’s decision to fire James Comey.

Trump’s job approval numbers continue to sink.

Republicans are finding that their constituents aren’t very happy about the passage of the American Health Care Act.

There seems to be no question that the decision to fire James Comey was motivated largely by the President’s frustrations over the fact that his campaign is under investigation.

Less than a week after revealing that the F.B.I. was investigating the Trump campaign regarding ties with Russia, F.B.I. Director James Comey has been fired by President Trump.

South Korea has elected a new President who breaks with his impeached predecessor in favoring dialogue with the North.

The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals heard argument yesterday in the appeal of an order barring travel from six Muslim countries, and it didn’t appear to go well for the attorneys defending the ban.

America’s longest war is still going on, and President Trump’s advisers want him to continue his predecessor’s policies of continuing to re-expand American forces in a war that has seemingly no end.

The American Health Care Act may have sailed through the House, but the Senate is another story.

Centrist candidate Emmanuelle Macron scored a decisive win over the far-right Marine Le Pen in today’s runoff round of the French Presidential election.

How close to success is the National Popular Vote initiative? (Spoiler alert: not close).

As usual, an attempt to explain congressional behavior brings us back to the issue of our basic institutions. The way we elect congress matters.

Thanks to anti-vaccination activists spreading false propaganda, measles cases are hitting record highs among the Somali immigrant community in Minnesota.

Emmanuel Macron holds a decisive lead over Marine Le Pen as the French Presidential election heads into its final hours.

The Jobs Report for April showed much-improved numbers from the disappointment in March.

By the barest of margins, the House passed its bill repealing and replacing the Affordable Care Act, but the future of that bill is highly uncertain.

North Korea is pushing back against increased pressure from China over its nuclear weapons and ballistic missile programs.

F.B.I. Director James Comey testified yesterday on the reasons he chose to publicly speak out just days before the 2016 election about the reopened Clinton email investigation.

After failing twice in a month, House Republicans apparently think they have the votes to pass their bill to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act.

There’s been a palace coup at The Heritage Foundation.

House Republicans are making yet another push to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, but they once again may not have the votes.

A guilty plea in a particularly shocking case of police brutality.

President Trump’s comments about Andrew Jackson and the Civil War reveal something about how he thinks, and it’s not good.

There’s already speculation that former Vice-President Biden might try for a third run at the White House, but it seems unlikely.

Instead of attending the White House Correspondents Association Dinner, Donald Trump spent his Saturday attacking the press and the First Amendment.

Wayne LaPierre’s perverted view of the world in two sentences.

After 100 days in office, President Trump has very little to show for his work except to show that there’s no reason to trust his judgment going forward.

An assessment of the 45th President’s first 100 days.

The North Koreans failed to successfully test a longer-range missile again yesterday, but tensions on the Korean Peninsula seem destined to increase in any case.

Donald Trump discovers reality.

The first scorecard for President Trump’s first economic quarter in office isn’t exactly very good.

Once again, the GOP punts on ‘repeal and replace’ because they don’t have the votes.

The Freedom Caucus may be mollified, but moderate Republicans and the Senate aren’t. Meaning that repeal and replacement of Obamacare is becoming less likely.

The Trump Administration is out with a tax plan, but it’s seriously lacking in details.

Roy Moore, who is currently on suspension, has resigned as chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court in order to challenge Luther Strange for his seat in the US Senate.

The Worldwide Leader fired over 100 on-air personalities yesterday.