Outside the Beltway

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.

More information released last night confirmed the extent to which the United States was linking progress on its relationship with Ukraine to an investigation of Joe Biden and his son.

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.

Iowa Congressman Steve King finds himself low on campaign cash and with virtually no support from his party.

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.

President Trump doubled down on his tirade against Jewish American Democrats from yesterday with some even more offensive comments.

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

Congressman Steve King has some rather unique views about human history.

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.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell declared “case closed” on the Mueller Report and the Russia investigation. This is far from the truth.

The findings are a dispiriting Rorschach test.

Steve King, who has recently come under attack for a long history of racist remarks, is facing a strong challenge for the GOP nomination in 2020.

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?

The Party of Donald Trump has left no sane choice but to vote straight Democrat.

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.

Facebook, Google, and several other companies have closed down accounts associated with conspiracy theorist Alex Jones.

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.

Another one of Trump’s lawyers bites the dust, and hired someone with some very specific experience.

Rudy Giuliani is joining President Trump’s legal team but it’s unclear what he actually brings to that team.

The parents of two of the victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre are suing Alex Jones for falsely accusing them of lying about the deaths of their children.

Joseph E. diGenova has touted the theory that rogue FBI elements have tried to frame Trump in the Russia probe.

A D.C. lawmaker latches on to an insane conspiracy theory.

Last week, the President was calling for national unity. This week, he called political opponents “treasonous.”

The 2008 Republican nominee for president condemned his party and its president for the release of a controversial memo attacking the FBI.