Outside the Beltway

President Trump says he wants to talk to Special Counsel Robert Mueller, but his own lawyers clearly don’t trust him enough to allow that to go forward.

A three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals struck down part of a Hawaii law barring open carry of weapons, but this win for gun rights advocates may turn out to be short-lived.

California’s Democratic Party endorsed “progressive” upstart Kevin de León over Senator Dianne Feinstein, but this is unlikely to stop Feinstein from winning election to a sixth term in office.

The Democratic National Committee is one step closer to adopting a rule change that would make superdelegates largely irrelevant to the party’s nomination process.

There’s a reason President Trump’s Supreme Court picks are “normal” in a way his national security and economic teams are not.

He had to go (and should have been gone some time ago).

Jim Jordan, who heads the powerful House Freedom Caucus, is being accused of ignoring reports of sexual abuse by a team doctor while he was a coach at The Ohio State University.

Trump uses an array of ugly language about immigrants. He pretends like he is just talking about MS13 but that is not the case.

Convicted leaker Chelsea Manning lost a bid for the Democratic nomination for Senate in Maryland, to the surprise of nobody.

Joe Crowley, widely considered in line to replace Nancy Pelosi as party leader in the House, has been defeated.

Some activists on the left are calling for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to be abolished. While that may be a great sound bite, it doesn’t really accomplish anything.

Notwithstanding the rhetoric of the President and his supporters, most Americans believe that immigration is a good thing for the United States.

Donald Trump wants Republicans to make his immigration policies the centerpiece of the midterm campaign. What could possibly go wrong?

A seemingly innocuous change to a newspaper style guide has some significant implications.

Hurricane Trump hit the G-7 this weekend, and the damage it left behind will take years to clean up.

The Federal Government will borrow more than $1 trillion this year for the first time in more than a half-decade.

The Trump White House has leaked more than any in recent memory. Some of the leakers have explained what motivates them.

A writer at National Review is proposing a compromise on the issue of transgender rights. Needless to say, many conservatives aren’t very happy about it.

While the Trump Administration slowly tries to remake the Federal Judiciary, states are moving to pass radical new challenges to Roe v. Wade.

The Commission on College Basketball recommended an end to the one-and-done rule and other major reforms.

A longtime “Hillary Beat” reporter ruminates on what she and her candidate could have done differently in 2016.

An attempt at defining the conversation.

A plurality of Americans aged 18 to 34 have no idea how many people were killed, what Auschwitz was, or how Hitler came to power.

The United States has several options in Syria. None of them are good and one of them would be disastrous.

Republicans are raising the fear of impeachment to motivate a base that could become disaffected heading into November.

Thanks to a combination of sensationalism and outright lies, a fairly conventional story about an annual protest march in Mexico was turned into Fox News fodder that raised images of an invading army of illegal immigrants.

John Dowd allegedly raised the possibility while the Mueller investigation was closing in on the two presidential advisors.

A big win for gun control advocates in a deeply Republican state.

John Bolton is leading a cry for preemptive war against North Korea.

The tragedy in Florida last week revealed once again how hyperpartisanship is destroying our politics and harming the country.

Why does the U.S. continue to pursue the seemingly impossible goal of denuclearization with regard to North Korea? In part, it’s because we’re still locked into thirty-year-old rhetoric.

One of the main objections that many on the right seem to have to proposals to legalize DACA beneficiaries and other illegal immigrants is the idea that they could eventually become citizens. There’s no good reason they shouldn’t be able to do so.

Donald Trump lies about even the most trivial matters, How are we supposed to believe anything else he says?

A Judge in New York has dismissed a lawsuit against the President based on two provisions of the Constitution that had never been ruled on before.

Most Americans are unlikely to remember John Anderson, but he was a harbinger of things to come.

President Trump returns home from an Asian trip that wasn’t exactly impressive.

Since taking office, President Trump has made an average of 5.5 false claims per day.

President Trump has selected Jerome Powell, a member of the Federal Reserve’s Board of Governors, to replace Janet Yellen as Chairman.

Donald Trump continues to be as astoundingly ignorant about the most powerful weapons the U.S. military possesses as he was as a candidate.

A new poll shows that Donald Trump could end up having an impact on the race for Virginia Governor.

Hillary Clinton has found another group to blame for her loss, educated white married women in suburbia.

Republicans on Capitol Hill and elsewhere were gambling when they lined up behind Donald Trump. So far, they’ve lost.

A Federal Appeals Court has upheld the dismissal of a lawsuit filed by Gary Johnson and Jill Stein regarding their exclusion from Presidential debates.

President Trump’s reaction to the terror attack in Spain included an easily debunked lie about one of America’s most decorated Generals.

It’s time to stop honoring the symbols of a nation of racist traitors.

Trump and his underlings continue to lie, even about the most trivial of matters.

Sad news about a Washington stalwart.

Great Britain heads to the polls today.

The Trump Administration will not try to stop former F.B.I. Director James Comey from testifying before the Senate Intelligence Committee on Thursday.