Outside the Beltway

Tim Pawlenty is attempting a comeback in Minnesota. It won’t be easy.

President Trump is continuing his dangerous and misguided trade war rhetoric,

March’s Jobs Report fell far short of expectations.

The Atlantic fired one of their few conservative voices for saying women who have abortions should be hanged. Was this beyond the pale?

Old-fashioned notions of journalistic neutrality are chafing young reporters in the Age of Trump.

President Trump wants to send the military to the Mexican border. This is both unnecessary and a bad idea.

More than 1200 refugees, mostly from Honduras, are trying to come to the United States. What should we do about it?

News anchors at dozens of local stations owned by conservative-leaning Sinclair Broadcast Group were recently required to read a script mandated by corporate headquarters, and it’s leading to some bad media coverage for Sinclair.

Their website has been scrubbed! Tillerson has all but vanished! The sky is falling!

Johnetta Benton was caught on tape in a 15-minute rant against President Trump’s campaign slogan. She ain’t wrong.

As a general rule, Presidents are entitled to have a Cabinet and advisers he is comfortable with, but a Cabinet full of “yes men” is not ideal with any President, and certainly not with this one.

Within hours after being fired as Secretary of Veterans Affairs, David Shulkin was fighting back.

As suspected, Cynthia Nixon is not shaping up to be much of a challenge for Andrew Cuomo.

Joe Arpaio is saying he might reopen his “investigation” into former President Obama’s birthplace if he’s elected Senator.

In selecting John Bolton as his National Security Adviser, Donald Trump has signaled to the world that he’s likely to take action that will only serve to make the world a more dangerous place.

Mitt Romney staked out a position on DACA that is to the right of the President, and to the right of a majority of Utah voters.

Normally attorneys would be jumping at the chance to represent the President of the United States. With Donald Trump, the lawyers are distancing themselves from him as fast as they can.

Stormy Daniels spoke to 60 Minutes last night about her relationship with Donald Trump and the agreement that was made on the eve of the 2016 election to keep her quiet.

Like many Presidents before him, Donald Trump wants a line-item veto. Getting there won’t be easy, nor should it be.

Not surprisingly, John Bolton has some links to particularly shady people on the right.

Personal attacks on teenagers whose friends were murdered is a strategy sure to backfire.

The incoming National Security Advisor reportedly wants to purge those who aren’t sycophants.

The President issued an incredibly confusing order that contradicts the advice of his generals and is probably illegal.

Congress passed a funding bill to avert a shutdown with time to spare early this morning, but now the President is threatening a veto.

Donald Trump may be getting ready to act as his own Chief of Staff. That would be a huge mistake.

Top White House staffers were preparing to fire several troublesome figures at once when the President suddenly upended the plan.

Turkish security personnel who assaulted peaceful protestors in America’s capital will go free.

Profiles in courage? With Republicans in the Trump Era, it’s more like profiles in cowardice.

Mississippi’s Governor has chosen a replacement for Thad Cochran, but the White House isn’t too happy about the pick.

Breitbart News appears to be fading in terms of readership, but the alt-right politics it represents is not going away.

The network’s longtime “strategic analyst” is “ashamed” of his association because they’ve become a “propaganda machine.”

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

A report in The Washington Post says that White House Staff under President Trump have been required to sign non-disclosure agreements.

The special counsel may be moving beyond the 2016 campaign and into post-election obstruction of justice.

To nobody’s surprise, Vladimir Putin has won re-election to another term as Russia’s President.

If you’re tired of the restraint being shown by this President, you may be in luck.

Will Bunch wildly exaggerates the Cambridge Analytica scandal.

New reports indicate that Donald Trump’s lawyer Michael Cohen has been involved in efforts to keep Stormy Daniels from telling her story for at least the past seven years.

Things continue to look good for Democrats as we get closer to the midterm elections.

The family real estate business made tens of millions through shady dealings.

Attorneys for the Defendants in the lawsuit filed by Stormy Daniels, including the President, have removed the case to Federal Court and are claiming that Daniels owes $20 million for her alleged breaches of a settlement agreement.

Less than 24 hours after the McCabe firing, the president’s attorney explicitly connects the move to the Mueller probe.

One of the supposed “adults” in the Trump administration has no class.

The Trump presidency is the latest step in treating commentators like policy experts. It is all a manifestation of how the modern GOP is a populist party.

A new bombshell allegation in the Stormy Daniels affair.

Having journalistic integrity at the Fair and Balanced network has never been more challenging.

Robert Mueller’s investigation appears to enter a new phase, with a focus on the President’s business dealings with Russia.

The selection of Mike Pompeo as the next Secretary of State makes it more likely that President Trump will take the foolish and dangerous step of withdrawing the United States from the nuclear deal with Iran.

Best known as a television host, he served in the Reagan administration and chief economist of Bear Stearns.

Individual races are idiosyncratic. But there are nonetheless some lessons here.