Outside the Beltway

After two weeks of hearings, public opinion has not moved very much on the impeachment of the President.

POTUS believes, and is propagating, a conspiracy theory.

An ongoing attempt to summarize the complex.

The California Supreme Court has struck down a state law purporting to require a candidate for President to release their tax returns,

After a year of controversy and investigation, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been indicated on charges of fraud and bribery.

Blue & White Party Leader Benny Gantz was unable to form a new government, throwing Israel into another political crisis.

After a long day of hearings, the case against the President is becoming clearer and Republican defenses becoming more absurd.

Public resources do not belong to the president to use for private gain.

Former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch described how the President’s allies intimidated her out of her position, while the President intimidated her live on Twitter.

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 proof of a quid pro quo is coming from inside the President’s own Administration.

The President is committing enough high crimes and misdemeanors without us manufacturing them.

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.

Hawaii Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard, who is basically a non-entity in the race for the Democratic nomination, will not be running for re-election.

After a close election, Benjamin Netanyahu has given up on his effort to form a government.

Fear of Donald Trump and his minions is making it hard for Republicans to answer a simple question.

The third part of a long, but connected, set of thoughts.

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

Republicans face a choice. Do they put their country first, or do they put their President first?

Trying to nail down some basics about a very complicated situation.

Donald Trump is now committing his crimes in public.

A Senate report alleges that the National Rifle Association allowed itself to become a Russian asset,

The time for sitting on the sidelines is over. Donald Trump cannot be allowed to get away with his usurpation of power, his disdain for the law, or his continued policies that have damaged the country.

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

Jake Tapper and Chris Wallace both put Administration surrogates through the ringer on their respective Sunday morning shows.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky finds himself in he middle of an historic American scandal, and with a new nickname.

The real crime is what’s legal.

A little bit of this for a little bit of that.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is getting the first shot at forming a new government. Whether he’ll succeed or not is another story.

Working as the President’s private attorney, Rudy Giuliani has spent months working behind the scenes to pressure Ukraine to investigate Joe Biden’s son.

Greg Sargent usefully lays out the basics.

The escalation has been rapid, dramatic, and warranted.

Just days before he repeatedly pressured the President of Ukraine to reopen a closed investigation involving the son of former Vice-President Biden, President Trump suspended military aid that had been authorized by Congress.

President Trump is now admitting that he talked to the President of Ukraine about investigations of Joe Biden and his son but denies there was a quid pro quo.

What we know for sure.

But, our process to elect the president is highly flawed.

The latest allegations about exactly what the President may have been trying to do in a phone call with a foreign leader that caught the attention of a whistleblower are becoming more serious by the day.

With election results showing his Likud Party falling short of a majority, Benjamin Netanyahu is joining his chief rival in vallsfor a unity government. Getting there would be complicated, though,

As many expected, the initial returns from the Israeli elections are too close to call.

A Federal Appeals Court has reinstated an Emoluments Clause lawsuit against the President that had been dismissed nearly two years ago.

Canada is headed for a new election at the end of October as Justin Trudeau finds his government daling with a scandal.

Faced with an election next week, Israel’s Prime Minister is pushing a settlement plan that would be an utter disaster.

Democrat Jon Ossoff has thrown his hat in the ring to challenge David Perdue for Georgia’s Senate seat in 2020.

Does it get much more swampy than this?

Hurricanes and corrupting truth.

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.

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.

Thanks to a ruling by the Puerto Rican Supreme Court, the island Commonwealth has its third Governor in less than a week.

Canada must have a Federal Election by late October, and the polls are showing that Prime Minister Trudeau could be in political trouble.

Embattled Governor Ricardo A. Rosselló has stepped down but succession issues surround the man who took the oath of office late yesterday.