Outside the Beltway

Yet another top appointee is in the awkward position of having to defend himself from the Tweeter-in-Chief.

The Russia probe is focusing on the sequence of events surrounding hacked Clinton campaign and DNC emails.

“All In The Family” predicted a policy proposal that President Trump and many other conservatives have made in the wake of the Florida school shooting.

Ben Carson has expensive taste in office furniture.

Democrats appear to have regained momentum in the Generic Congressional Ballot.

I don’t see how the state legislature making tax decisions on the basis of the public position an company takes is legal under the 14th Amendment. 

New polls show increased support for various gun control measures, including limitations on so-called “assault weapons,” but that doesn’t mean we’re likely to see Congressional action on the subject.

Jonathan Bernstein thinks so and Chuck Todd and company outline a pretty strong case.

The President’s fecklessness here is incredible. Either take these people out of sensitive posts or take the responsibility for granting them waivers. 

President Trump’s job approval hits a new low.

The octogenarian failed to get her party’s endorsement for a sixth term.

What is CPAC telling us about the contemporary conservative movement?

Presidents are much more constrained in issuing and rolling back regulations than they or the public think.

The Mueller investigation moves forward.

National Security Adviser H.L. McMaster is the latest person rumored to be considering moving on from the Trump Administration.

The Russia probe charges Alex Van Der Zwaan made false statements about past communications with former Trump campaign aide Rick Gates.

Donald Trump’s dereliction of duty in response to clear evidence of Russian interference in the 2016 election is a staggering and flagrant dereliction of the duties he agreed to take on when he took the Oath Of Office more than a year ago.

Blake Hounshell has doubts about whether Trump colluded with Moscow.

President Trump’s tweets, other public statements, and actions are causing world leaders to doubt the reliability of the United States on the world stage.

Mueller tightens the screws even further.

Donald Trump is now claiming that he had never denied that Russia interfered in the 2016 election. This is, of course, not true.

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

He’s tan. He’s rested. He’s old.

A significant and important development in the Russia investigation that shows that President Trump’s claim that the stories of Russian interference in the 2016 election were “Fake News” is completely untrue.

More security clearance problems for the White House.

Another day, another Court ruling against the Trump Administration.

President Trump’s military parade would come with a not insignificant cost.

Despite what his own intelligence chiefs are saying, President Trump still does not believe that Russia interfered in the 2016 election.

Donald Trump’s lawyer admits to making a six-figure payment on the eve of the 2016 election to a porn star that Trump was alleged to have had an affair with. That just raises a host of other questions.

Israeli police have recommended that charges be brought against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Whether that damages him politically remains to be seen.

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.

Intelligence officials are warning that the Russians are set to seek to influence the 2018 elections just as they did in 2016. Despite this, the Trump Administration refuses to acknowledge this publicly while the President seeks to undermine the investigation into past Russian interference.

Women voters are turning decidedly against Donald Trump, this could pose problems for Republican in 2018 and beyond.

The Tea Party is dead, but it was never really alive to begin with.

The Judge presiding over a case dealing with Trump’s proposed border wall expressed doubts about the project. The President will no doubt be irked by the identity of that Judge.

More than a year into the Trump Presidency, dozens of White House personnel lack proper security clearances.

Donald Trump has blocked the release of a memo prepared by House Intelligence Committee Democrats to rebut the Nunes memo. It’s hard not to see this as a blatantly partisan move.

President Trump is reportedly considering replacing his chief of staff. Again.

Contrary to the claims that were made by conservatives and Trump supporters before its release, the memo prepared by Congressman Devin Nunes has done nothing to undermine the Russia investigation.

Administration officials are admitting that it’s likely that Russia will try to interfere in the midterm elections just as it did in 2016, but they don’t seem inclined to do anything about it.

Of course Donald Trump wants a military parade, it would be consistent with his delusions of grandeur.

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

Donald Trump spent much of the past year touting the rising stock market, now he’s getting a lesson in reality.

Donald Trump’s own lawyers are afraid he can’t help but lie to such an extent that he should not sit down for an interview with special counsel Robert Mueller.

With Republicans fully in control in Washington, their concerns about the budget deficit seem to have disappeared.

Congress seems no closer to a DACA deal than they were in January.

The two most important allegations in the Nunes memo appear to be complete lies.

Mostly it just tells us that Nunes and his allies are hacks.