Outside the Beltway

President Trump is claiming that the Nunes memo vindicates him. He’s wrong.

National Review legal analyst David French argues that the Nunes memo actually undermines the central claim its proponents were seeking to bolster.

The first jobs report for 2018 beat expectation slightly, but the most positive signs came in the underlying data on wages.

After spending much of 2017 trying to do it, Republicans are giving up on any effort to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act before the midterms.

What seems like a nothingburger story from CNN.

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

Robert Mueller’s investigators are looking at the President’s role in drafting a false statement regarding the June 2016 meeting between his son and a lawyer linked to the Russian government.

Yet another demand for a loyalty pledge from a law enforcement official by a President under investigation.

The President talked about national unity last night, but given his own rhetoric as a candidate and as a President, it’s a call that seems to be hypocritical.

The White House’s immigration plan is facing opposition in both chambers of Congress from moderate and conservative Republicans alike.

Once again, President Trump is going soft on Russia. Why? I’ll leave that up to the reader to decide.

Do yourself a favor and skip the State Of The Union Address tonight. You won’t be missing anything important.

International travel to the United States has declined since Donald Trump took office, and it’s having a measurable impact on the economy.

The prospects for a deal in Congress on DACA are starting to look grim.

The recent cooling of relations between North and South Korea has led to some talk of eventual reunification, but for many South Koreans that idea is a non-starter.

Democratic norms are eroding.

The Polish Government appears ready to approve a law that seeks to whitewash the truth about the role that many Poles played in the Holocaust.

Donald Trump is wildly unpopular in the United Kingdom, and that’s apparently causing him to eschew visiting the United States’s most important ally.

Despite mounting evidence and outrageous behavior, Republicans nationwide and on Capitol Hill continue to do the Administration’s dirty work. They’ll most likely live to regret it.

And the evidence for obstruction of justice continues to mount.

Democrats in the Senate appear ready to de-link DACA from the budget. That would remove the threat of a government shutdown, but it could anger their base.

President Trump has alienated America’s allies and friends, and they are acting accordingly.

Americans were once largely united in their opinions about Israel and the Israeli/Palestinian conflict. That’s not the case anymore.

Getting to a DACA deal isn’t going to be easy.

Just over one year after President Trump’s foolish and ill-informed decision to withdraw from the Trans-Pacific Partnership Canada has stepped in to rescue the deal.

The deal that led to the end of the Federal Government shutdown isn’t sitting well with the progressive wing of the Democratic Party.

President Trump is apparently pressuring the President of South Korea to give him the credit for talks between North and South Korea that the United States isn’t involved in at all.

President Trump called on Senate Republicans to eliminate the legislative filibuster to resolve the government shutdown. That’s not going to happen.

The government is shut down and Washington is playing the usual blame game. In reality, there’s plenty of blame to go around, and one of the guilty parties is the American people.

Both #TrumpShutdown and #SchumerShutdown put the blame in the wrong place.

One year after his Inauguration, Donald Trump is the most unpopular new President since the invention of modern polling. However, his numbers are generally the same that they’ve been for some time now.

With just hours to go, it seems increasingly unlikely that the Senate can reach a deal to keep the government open.

Thanks to Donald Trump, public opinion around the world about the United States is at its lowest level in ten years.

With less than two days to go, the prospects for Congress finding a way to prevent a government shutdown aren’t looking good.

Former White House and Trump campaign adviser Steve Bannon has been subpoenaed in connection with special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation.

The GOP’s potential troubles in 2018 don’t just exist at the Congressional level.

Some thoughts about why the president’s remarks on immigration are so problematic.

The numbers aren’t looking good for Republican prospects in this year’s midterm elections.

Steve Bannon loses his position at Breitbart after his blistering comments about the President and others in the Administration became public.

Controversial former Sheriff Joe Arpaio is running for Senate in Arizona.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg is making it clear she has no intention of leaving office before the 2020 election.

New reports indicate that the President is spending more and more time watching television and tweeting. That’s not what he was elected to do.

Donald Trump’s latest Twitter rant is one of his most bizarre.

Contrary to expectations, jobs growth in December was relatively modest.

Who needs a First Amendment when you have lawyers willing to write threatening letters?

Whatever goodwill may have existed between the Trump Administration and Steve Bannon appears to have evaporated.

Donald Trump’s irrational tweets are once again focused on the leader of North Korea.

After forty years in the Senate, Orrin Hatch announced that he will not seek re-election this year, thus opening the door for Mitt Romney to succeed him.