Outside the Beltway

Rural Americans are much less likely to go to college than their urban counterparts. Is there a solution?

President Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping have agreed to resume trade talks, but Trump’s ill-advised trade war will continue.

The costs to the American economy of President Trump’s ill-advised trade war continue to add up.

Not only are we deploying it more slowly than China and others but we’re doing it in a way that will live behind rural Americans.

The tree that President Trump and French President Macron planted last year has died.

Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao is being accused of giving preferential access to businesses and businessmen tied to her husband, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell

President Trump’s tariffs are having a noticeable, and negative, impact on global economies. The President doesn’t seem to care.

The United States and Mexico reached a last-minute deal to avert tariffs that would have gone into effect on Monday. Whether the deal accomplishes anything substantive remains to be seen.

While the American media was paying attention to President travels and travails in Europe, there was another meeting taking place.

Thad Cochran, who represented Mississippi in Congress for 45 years, has died at the age of 81.

The Trump Administration is proposing another round of tariffs on even more Chinese goods.

China has retaliated for the tariffs that the President imposed late last week, and things look like they’re only going to get worse.

With his attempt to overthrow the government clearly a failure, Juan Guaidó is back to calling for foreign military intervention in Venezuela.

As he had threatened, President Trump has imposed new tariffs on Chinese goods, making a bad situation even worse.

Donald Trump’s tariffs are hurting the American economy, American consumers, and American businesses.

As the Friday deadline for trade talks with China approaches, President Trump is threatening even more tariffs.

The ongoing apparent attempted coup in Venezuela is already leading to talk of American intervention in the event of a crackdown. That would be unwise and unjustified.

More pressures on a region already struggling.

Notwithstanding President Trump’s tariffs, America’s trade deficit hit a record level last year.

Washington Governor Jay Inslee is running for the Democratic nomination for President on a platform primarily focused on climate change. Whether that helps distinguish him from a growing field of candidates remains to be seen.

If all goes well, the bill to avert another shutdown should become law today.

The self-appointed Acting President of Venezuela has said he doesn’t rule out the idea of American intervention in his country, but we should rule it out immediately.

Despite the President’s claims, the American steel industry isn’t doing well at all.

The House GOP has moved to rebuke Iowa Congressman for his racist remarks. What took them so long?

Federal employees deemed “essential” missed a paycheck yesterday in violation of US labor law.

Kansas Senator Pat Roberts is the second Republican to announce his retirement, but his seat should remain safely red.

The longer the shutdown goes on, the wider its impact is likely to become.

Democrats have unveiled what appears as if it will be their first effort to end the shutdown, but there are already signs Republicans will reject it.

There was no progress on resolving the government shutdown today, and little hope that anything will happen before late next week.

The government entered its third shutdown of the year with little sign of an immediate resolution.

The economy is in good shape for the moment but there are storm clouds on the horizon.

In the end, the race between Cindy Hyde-Smith and Mike Espy was not even close.

Even as its leader continues to deny the reality of Global Climate Change, the Trump Administration has released an utterly devastating report on the impact of such change over the course of the coming decades.

Republican Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith has made several mistakes since Election Day, but she’s likely to win tomorrow’s runoff election.

With the recounts over we can officially say that Rick Scott will be the next Senator from Florida.

The Governor’s race in Florida is over, and the Senate race isn’t far behind.

Florida has begun the recount process in both the Senate and Governor’s races. Where it goes from here is anyone’s guess.

Florida voters approved an amendment to the state’s Constitution that will restore the voting rights of as many as 1.2 million ex-felons and make it easier for future released felons to get their civil rights back.

Congressman Steve King’s anti-immigrant, xenophobic rhetoric hasn’t bothered his constituents for twenty years, but he suddenly finds himself the focus of controversy and possibly vulnerable. It couldn’t happen to a more well-deserving guy.

A Senate race in Mississippi could end up being the deciding factor in the battle for control of the Senate.

President Trump’s trade war with China is leading car manufacturers to shift production from the U.S. to China.

The economy appears to have grown strongly in the third quarter, but concerns about long-term growth remain.

For a number of reasons, we may not know the outcome of the midterm elections on Election Night.

After nearly a year, Trump’s trade policies are having their inevitable negative impact inside the United States.

Thanks to a last-minute agreement, the United States and Canada reached an agreement for a revised version of NAFTA. It’s a got a new name, but it’s basically NAFTA 2.0.

As expected, President Trump announced a new round of tariffs against Chinese goods yesterday, and China quickly retaliated.

President Trump is set to expand his ill-advised, economically ignorant, trade war with China.

The target is not just on illegal immigrants.

Florida voters in the Republican and Democratic parties have set up a Gubernatorial race that provides a stark choice on the table for Sunshine State voters in a race that will likely have national implications moving forward.

President Trump’s much-hyped replacement for NAFTA doesn’t really amount to much and won’t amount to anything unless he can get Canada, and the U.S. Congress, on board.