Outside the Beltway

Two progressives enter. One progressive leaves.

Notwithstanding Russia’s weak position vis a vis the west, It’s Putin who seems to be winning.

After a two-year investigation, the Inspector General of the Department of Justice found no basis for the conspiracy theories being pushed by the Republicans regarding the Russia investigation.

George Zimmerman has filed a bizarre conspiracy theory-laden lawsuit against Trayvon Martin’s family, prosecutors, and others.

The impeachment inquiry moves to the House judiciary Committee this morning.

Seeking to have a US citizen investigated by a foreign government based on innuendo is a major problem.

The vultures keep circling above the head of “America’s Mayor.”

POTUS believes, and is propagating, a conspiracy theory.

An internal Justice Department investigation fails to find any evidence of political bias in the Russia investigation.

As Republicans and their conservative cohorts spread a discredited conspiracy theory about the 2016 election, Vladimir Putin smiles at yet another victory.

A key diplomat and close supporter of the President has essentially confirmed the existence of a quid pro quo between Ukrainian aid and negative information about the President’s political opponents.

The man who sparked the investigation into the President’s illegal conduct has been outed in a futile attempt to discredit it.

Yesterday’s testimony by Lt. Colonel Alexander Vindman including information particularly damaging to the President and his defenses to the charges against him in the Ukraine matter.

As he reaches his 1,000th day in office, Trump’s lies pile up at an astronomical rate.

A new Senate Intelligence Committee report adds to the evidence regarding Russian interference in the 2016 election.

Marie Yovanovitch, the former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine, had a lot to say when she testified before Congress yesterday.

With the ongoing Ukraine scandal having an impact in Washington and Kyiv, the biggest winner is in Moscow.

It’s not just Ukraine.

The President’s attorney Rudy Giuliani is among the first to be served with a subpoena in connection with the newly-launched impeachment inquiry.

Controversial former Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, who was voted out of office in 2016 after serving six terms in office, is running to get his old job back.

And what a week it has been.

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

Even when it comes from his favorite propaganda network, Donald Trump doesn’t like bad news.

Confirming the original diagnosis, Jeffrey Epstein’s death last weekend has been ruled a suicide.

Jeffrey Epstein, the billionaire financier who was arrested earlier this summer on sex trafficking and abuse charges, has died of what appears to be a suicide in his jail cell.

In a unanimous decision, a three-judge panel from the Second Circuit has reinstated Sarah Palin’s defamation lawsuit against The New York Times.

Delay of game.

Jeffrey Epstein, a billionaire investor previously charged with sex crimes involving minors, has been charged with sex trafficking involving minors.

Amusing results, and a history lesson, in a new poll

Thanks largely to anti-vaccination propaganda, the Centers for Disease Control reports that measles cases in the U.S. are at a level unseen in a quarter century.

President Trump isn’t pleased that a news network that has generally been his own personal propaganda network is reaching out to Democrats.

The findings are a dispiriting Rorschach test.

Two-thirds want social media platforms to ban harassment and racist, sexist, and other offensive speech.

Another white supremacist attack raises disturbing questions about our information environment.

Measles cases in the United States are surging thanks to the lies spread by the anti-vaccination movement.

A powerful Congressman successfully pressured a media giant to pull content. We should be worried.

Notorious RBG is back on the bench.

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg returned to the Supreme Court today and appears to have fully recovered from her December surgery.

When do we stop pretending that Fox News Channel is anything other than State Run Media for the Trump Administration?

Robert Mueller’s office has referred an apparent effort to bribe women into making allegations against him to the F.B.I.

Charges have been filed against the man responsible for the massacre in Pittsburgh in both Federal and State court.

Elizabeth Warren has released a DNA report showing that she does indeed have some Native American heritage in her family’s past. That won’t stop conservatives from continuing to attack her, though.

A telling contrast of two Georgetown Prep schoolmates.

President Trump is apparently a Hurricane Maria Truther.

After four days of hearings, the fate of Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination to the Supreme Court seems assured.

Recently indicted Congressman Duncan Hunter Jr. is blaming his apparently estranged wife and the so-called “Deep State” for the fact that he’s charged with embezzling a quarter million dollars from his campaign.

Venezuela’s President Nicolás Maduro survived an apparent, albeit amateurish, assassination attempt yesterday in what could be a sign of underlying instability in Venezuela.

Hours after she unleashed a racist Twitter tirade, Roseanne Barr has had her show canceled by ABC. Of course, ABC knew who it was doing business with well before today.

Alex Jones is finally being called on to answer for his irresponsible lying about events like the Sandy Hook shooting.

Just when you think the President has hit rock bottom, it gets worse.