Outside the Beltway

A recent uptick in retirements from Congressional Republicans is leading some Republicans to become concerned about the party’s prospects in 2018.

At some point, it will be time to move on.

Ed Gillespie, the Republican nominee for Governor of Virginia, has come out against the most recent immigration-related action by the national leader of his party.

Donald Trump made a deal with Democrats on spending and the debt ceiling, but it was an exceedingly bad one.

Two polls find that most Americans support letting DACA beneficiaries to stay in the United States. Will that help move Congress to act?

A stupid comment about Hurricane Harvey cost a Florida professor his job.

The Trump Administration announced today that the program that provided deportation relief to nearly a million people brought to the United States as children would end unless Congress acts to save it.

As Congress heads back to work, a corruption trial in New Jersey could have big implications for what happens on Capitol Hill.

President Trump is threatening to end a program that has benefited at least 750,000 innocent people.

Trump isn’t going to win any regional popularity awards in LA.

President Trump once again revealed his true self at a press conference yesterday.

The president’s begrudging condemnation of evil didn’t last long.

Donald Trump has had harsher things to say about Rosie O’Donnell than he did about the people responsible for yesterday’s violence. That says something about him.

On the special election for US Senate in Alabama

Big developments in the Russia investigation that could start making President Trump deeply uncomfortable.

It’s not the time away from the White House that matters, it’s the hypocrisy.

Donald Trump is unlikely to ever be a popular President, but that may not matter.

Thoughts on the quality of our democracy.

Once again, Donald Trump has taken to Twitter to attack women, embarrass himself, and embarrass the nation he purports to represent.

Donald Trump’s golf courses are displaying something that literally is fake news.

Donald Trump’s Presidency is young, but he’s already on track to become the biggest liar ever to occupy the Oval Office.

Foolishly, President Trump is rolling back part of President Obama’s opening to Cuba.

President Trump is reportedly considering at least partly reversing one of the great foreign policy successes of the Obama Presidency.

President Trump’s speech on Islam was a change of tone. However, as critics noted, it was short on substance and is unlikely to accomplish anything.

Jeb Bush predicted that Donald Trump would preside over a “chaos Presidency,” and he was right.

Everywhere one turns, it seems, there’s Russia.

There’s already speculation that former Vice-President Biden might try for a third run at the White House, but it seems unlikely.

The North Koreans failed to successfully test a longer-range missile again yesterday, but tensions on the Korean Peninsula seem destined to increase in any case.

Once again, the GOP punts on ‘repeal and replace’ because they don’t have the votes.

States are considering laws that would require candidates for President to release their tax returns, but such laws are probably unconstitutional.

Has China finally had enough of North Korea?

It’s not at all clear that there is a useful strategy at work here.

Another SpaceX success.

Rachel Maddow hyped the fact that she had obtained a copy of Trump’s 2005 tax return last night. It turned out to be much ado about nothing.

Part Two in a series of observations about health care and health insurance in light of the introduction of the House GOP’s health care plan. This post examines several ideas advanced by conservatives, and the reasons they aren’t complete answers to the problems we face.

Iowa Congressman Steve King is causing controversy yet again with his comments in support of far-right Dutch politician Geert Wilders.

An unusual, if not unexpected, mass firing at the Justice Department on Friday afternoon.

Health care policy analysts seem united in their assessment of the House GOP’s replacement for the Affordable Care Act, and it’s overwhelmingly negative.

Another day, another round of reports about contacts with Russian officials and people close to President Trump.

Travel industry experts are reporting a noticeable drop in international travel and tourism since Donald Trump was elected President.

Well, at least someone has a backbone.

A new head for the DNC at a time when the Democratic Party finds itself reeling and eager to take on Donald Trump.

Members of Congress and the Senate are once again facing down angry constituents, but it’s unclear whether it will translate into anything substantial in 2018.

The President gathered supporters around him, and blatantly lied to them, so as to increase support for his policies.