Outside the Beltway

The organizers are paying for prestige, not influence.

The House Freedom Caucus is apparently getting behind a revised version of the GOP’s plan to ‘repeal and replace’ the Affordable Care Act, but the GOP hasn’t revealed what the new plan entails.

With a government shutdown looming at the end of the week, the Administration has appeared to back away from a demand that a government funding bill include money allocated for the President’s promised border wall.

The 44th President will make as for a one-hour speech as his old annual salary. Should we worry about that?

Another Federal Court has found another Trump Executive Order unconstitutional.

Polling indicates that voters find the Democratic Party to be even more out of step than the Republican Party.

Six months after the election, the postmortems of the Clinton campaign all seem to have one thing in common, they all point at things other than the candidate and her campaign as being the reason she lost.

French voters face a stark choice in the May 7th runoff for President. Hopefully, they’ll make the correct choice.

As he nears the end of his first 100 days in office, President Trump continues to suffer from bad poll numbers.

The FBI Director faced a damned if you do, damned if you don’t choice.

Even the most offensive speech is protected by the First Amendment.

Faced with the fact that it has little to show for its first 100 days in office, the Trump Administration is pressuring Congress to come up with a new health care reform bill before the end of next week.

The Supreme Court made it harder for states to keep fines and other payments in cases where defendants are exonerated.

The Supreme Court heard oral argument yesterday in a case dealing with whether Missouri can deny a religious school from participating in a program to make school playgrounds safer.

When a prominent political scientist committed suicide yesterday, I was deeply struck by how much he was like not only me but most of the people in my professional circle.

The Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee is hinting at a new Supreme Court vacancy this summer.

Another big change at Fox News Channel.

Democrats came close to picking up what has been a solidly Republican seat for nearly forty years but ended up falling short. Instead, we’ll have a runoff in two months.

A political surprise in Great Britain as Prime Minister Theresa May calls a snap election for June 8th.

President Trump’s job approval woes are starting to impact the GOP as a whole.

States are considering laws that would require candidates for President to release their tax returns, but such laws are probably unconstitutional.

By a narrow margin, Turks voted for some significant changes.

The previous discussion continued.

Predicting election outcomes is different than predicting impeachment.

Fulfilling a promise.

North Korea is threatening another nuclear test, the United States is threatening retaliation, and China is warning of a ‘gathering storm’ on the Korean Peninsula.

It’s been a bad week for U.S.-Russian relations.

Donald Trump seems to be surprised that being President requires actual work.

Inconceivably, Steve Bannon thought that clashing with President Trump’s daughter and son-in-law was a good idea. He’s likely learned his lesson now.

Republicans held on to Mike Pompeo’s seat in the House, but the outcome was closer than many expected.

A top Trump campaign adviser was the subject of a FISA warrant for at least part of last year.

Has China finally had enough of North Korea?

A big win for opponents of Voter ID laws.

The background of the United incident, from an aviation law and policy perspective.

Judge Gorsuch is now Justice Gorsuch and it’s time to hit the ground running.