Outside the Beltway

A Federal Judge in New York has ruled that President Trump cannot block users from reading his tweets.

The N.F.L. has come up with a dumb “solution” to a non-existent problem.

Michael Cohen once threatened The Onion because it published a satirical article about Donald Trump.

Despite advice from advisers, the President continues to use unsecured devices to communicate outside of White House channels.

Russia wasn’t the only nation that sent people to meet with Trump Campaign officials at Trump Tower back in 2016 regarding assistance to the Trump Campaign.

After the Ronny Jackson disaster, President Trump has made a new selection for Secretary of Veterans Affairs.

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

The Mueller investigation turns one year old today and, despite the arguments of Trump and his supporters, there’s no sign that it will be coming to an end in the near future.

Backing up the nation’s intelligence agencies, the Senate Intelligence Committee said in a preliminary statement that it had concluded that Russia sought to aid Donald Trump’s campaign in the 2016 Presidential election.

Robert Mueller has reportedly concluded that he cannot indict a sitting President. This is not a vindication of Trump, and merely upholds a conclusion that the Justice Department reached four decades ago.

The Senate Judiciary Committee has released a treasure trove of documents related to the June 2016 meeting between Trump campaign officials and a Russian lawyer, and they raise far more questions than they answer.

Not surprisingly, the North Koreans are pushing back against American efforts to force them into a corner on denuclearization.

Quietly, Mike Pence is seeking to create his own power base inside the GOP even as the White House pushes back.

With the end of the Supreme Court term approaching, speculation about a Kennedy retirement is ramping up again.

A surprise announcement about the First Lady.

For some reason, the President wants to help a Chinese company that has been accused of being a security risk by American intelligence services.

61 percent of Americans have a favorable impression of a man who left office a failed president.

The number of Americans professing no religious affiliation is on the rise. This will have some interesting cultural and political implications.

When a President lies with the ease and regularity of Donald Trump, it’s the responsibility of all of us to call it what it is and not hide behind weasel words like “misleading.”

The Postal Service is losing billions of dollars, but not for the reasons the President claims.

The Generic Congressional Ballot has tightened in some recent polls, but on average the battle for control of Congress continues to favor Democrats.

President Trump’s decision to violate the terms of the nuclear deal with Iran could be a turning point in relations between the United States and its most important allies, and not in a good way.

While longtime supporters have turned on the legendary attorney over his support of Donald Trump, he’s been astonishingly consistent.

When it comes to the Trump White House, the fish rots from the head down.

Mike Pence’s obsequiousness to his master knows no limits.

For Donald Trump and his supporters, “Fake News” means any news that doesn’t shower enough praise on him.

New documents reveal that the Limited Liability Company that paid off Stormy Daniels also received payments from a company linked to a Russian oligarch.

As expected, President Trump has withdrawn the United States from the nuclear deal with Iran. There was no rational basis for doing so.

Whether Don Blankenship wins or loses in West Virginia, his success is yet another example of how Donald Trump has changed the GOP for the worse.

A majority of Americans want the President to stay in the nuclear deal with Iran. That’s unlikely to matter to him.

Rudy Giuliani is basically now suggesting that his client would be willing to set off a Constitutional crisis that would make Watergate seem like a picnic.

Regrets, he’s had a few.

National Republicans are increasingly concerned that an upstart, racist candidate who has unleashed personal attacks on Mitch McConnell’s family will sneak through and win tomorrow’s primary to decide who will face Joe Manchin in November.

John McCain continues to bravely battle an aggressive form of brain cancer, but he’s already made clear that he doesn’t want the 45th President of the United States at his funeral.

They hired Israeli Private Investigators to dig up dirt on former Obama officials, including Ben Rhodes and Colin Kahl.

Eleven states plus DC, who have 172 of the 270 electoral votes needed to elect a President, are now part of the compact.

The former SecState is engaging in some shadow diplomacy.

To paraphrase the late Dennis Green, he is who we thought he was. 

The unemployment rate hit a point unseen since Bill Clinton was President in April, but jobs and wage growth remain tepid at best.

President Trump has told an astonishingly large number of lies since taking office.

In addition to his admissions about the Stormy Daniels matter, Rudy Giuliani also confirmed what we’ve known for awhile, that James Comey was fired because of the Russia investigation.

Rudy Giuliani threw a live grenade into the middle of the Stormy Daniels affair last night, and he’s made things much, much worse for his client.

Stormy Daniels is suing the President for defamation after he accused her of lying about a threat made to her seven years ago.

When it comes to a potential interview with Robert Mueller, President Trump faces risks no matter what form that interview takes.

It’s been 441 days since Donald Trump held a full-fledged Presidential press conference. Does anyone care?

Remember Donald Trump’s strange doctor? Well, things just got stranger;.

The new Secretary of State is an improvement over the worst Secretary of State in history.

Robert Mueller has some questions for the President, and the wide range of topic areas should worry President Trump significantly.

The Vice-President’s personal physician accused Ronny Jackson of misconduct back in September, according to new reports.

In a new book, Senator John McCain makes an announcement that everyone was anticipating.