Outside the Beltway

As doubts about the health of the economy start to mount, President Trump’s job approval is starting to suffer.

The Trump Administration is considering banning flavored electronic cigarettes. This would be a a bad idea.

The top ten candidates in the race for the Democratic nomination clashed last night in a debate that made clear the different ideological directions that this race is pulling their party.

As predicted, the Federal Budget Deficit has crossed the threshold back into the world of trillion-dollar deficits. This is all due to the hypocrisy of Republicans and so-called conservatives.

Former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz is ending a Presidential bid nobody knew existed.

A former Federal Reserve officials argues that the Fed should not lower interest rates to compensate for the impact of the President’s trade war, potentially leading to his defeat in the election. This is an incredibly bad idea.

Thanks for nothing, Republicans.

A disturbing story that’s almost certainly not what it first appears.

Once again, President Trump is doing Vladimir Putin’s bidding.

Former Vice-President Biden has dropped his first television ad in Iowa, and it touches on his strongest selling point.

Mark Halperin, the former MSNBC political analyst who was accused of misconduct during the height of the #MeToo Movement, is trying to make a comeback with a new book.

Prime Minister Netanyahu’s actions toward two Democratic Congresswomen,seemingly at the bidding of President Trump, is the latest example of the growing partisan divide over policy toward Israel.

The Trump Administration and 2020 campaign are clearly worried about the state of the economy. They should be, because it could be the one thing that dooms his re-election chances.

Workers at a petrochemical plant were told they could choose between showing up for a Presidential speech and not getting paid.

As a candidate, Donald Trump promised to bring jobs back to the United States, especially manufacturing jobs. It hasn’t worked out that way.

The Federal Budget Deficit rose 27% in July, putting it on course for the $1 trillion by the end of September.

Donald Trump lies with the ease that the rest of us tie our shoes. Will that fact have an impact on voters?

President Trump says he’s thinking about commuting the sentenced of Rod Blagojevich, who has served seven years of the fourteen-year sentence he received for public corruption.

Jeffrey Epstein’s death by suicide has led to many legitimate questions that should be investigated. It has also led to the rise of a number of baseless conspiracy theories.

Just over a week after Dan Coats announced he was stepping own as Director of National Intelligence, there are more shakeups at the top of the U.S. intelligence community.

While Democrats debated among themselves about health care plans that will likely never become law, Republicans were pushing forward with judicial confirmations.

One week out from the second Democratic debate, Elizabeth Warren appears to be the biggest beneficiary. while Kamala Harris appears to be falling behind.

Cesar Sayoc, the man who started a panic in October when he sent apparent explosive devices to a number of President Trump’s critics, has been sentenced to 20 years in prison

July’s Jobs Report was in line with expectations, but hardly indicative of a booming economy.

As was the case a month ago, Vice-President Biden and Senator Kamala Harris were the focus of last night’s debate. Things turned out very differently, though.

President Trump’s nominee to be the next Director of National Intelligence is quite simply not qualified for the position he has been nominated to.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg isn’t very impressed by the proposals made by several liberal politicians lately to increase the size of the Supreme Court to counterbalance the conservative tilt created by the Gorsuch and Kavanaugh confirmations.

Even a Fox News poll finds that the American public finds the President’s recent rhetoric to be racist. There’s a different picture when you look at his supporters, though.

President Trump and the Congressional leadership have reached agreement on a multi-year budget deal that that busts through all remaining controls on spending.

A great public intellectual, pioneering blogger, and all-around good man is gone.

An Army appellate court has rejected an appeal filed by Bowe Bergdahl that argued that the President’s attacks on him while a candidate unfairly influenced his court martial.

How insidious talking points spread in the modern media environment.

He could lose the popular vote by an even larger margin in 2020—and still coast to re-election.

The legal and political showdown between Congress and the White House has entered into a new stage.

What happened to “building a lasting relationship within the African American community”?

The Federal Budget Deficit passed the $700 Billion mark with three months still to go in the Fiscal Year.

Joe Biden delivered his first major foreign policy address of the campaign. It’s not perfect, but it’s better than what we have right now.

President Obama wanted to end it but his former VP used it to his advantage.

Joe Biden recently said that he’d consider nominating Merrick Garland again if there were a Supreme Court vacancy while he was President. Don’t count on it.

While significantly more Americans disapprove of his job performance than approve, recovery is still possible.

Should the pundit class look more like America?

The surging candidate seems to be trying to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.

A day after appearing to have conceded the issue, the Trump Administration says it is still looking for a way to include a citizenship question on the ballot.

President Trump And the RNC raised a record amount in the second quarter of the year.

New polling suggests that the President may not be benefiting from the relatively healthy economy as much as expected.

Just over a year after the United States repudiated the JCPOA, Iran has surpassed a limit on uranium enrichment set by the JCPOA

Is the United States finally ready to give up on the fantasy that North Korea will surrender its nuclear weapons?

POLITICO reports that some Democratic activists think she went too far.

A considerable number of Republican have effectively left our party over Donald Trump. Should we go all the way?

President Trump and North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un met at the Demilitarized Zone for what amounts to their third summit in a year. As with the previous two, there was nothing of substance accomplished.