Outside the Beltway

Right now, polling indicates that the American public is reluctant to support impeachment of the President but it’s possible that could change.

Trump’s penchant for behaving more like a talk radio host than a POTUS continues unabated.

Despite poll numbers suggesting otherwise, one political analyst suggests that the United States may not be “ready” for a gay President.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and other firebrands aren’t steering the ship. Yet.

There’s some very good news for Joe Biden in the first polls taken after he entered the Presidential race.

The President has hit a dubious milestone barely two years into his administration.

Donald Trump speaks largely just to his base, ignoring the nation as a whole. Whether this will be enough to win re-election in 2020 is an open question.

The story is shifting, which makes me even more suspicious.

The 2020 debate on Twitter does not represent ordinary Americans. Does that matter?

Trump’s threat will not make things better (and the notion of actually closing the border is insane).

It’s increasingly challenging to discuss media coverage because we’re all consuming a hand-selected bit of it.

Deny them the pleasure of an angry reaction, and they’ll probably leave you alone.

A WaPo writer takes a round-about path to demonstrate the obvious.

Free expression sometimes enables horrible crimes. How does a free society deal with that tension?

Another white supremacist attack raises disturbing questions about our information environment.

President Trump will ask for $8.6 billion for his border wall in his Fiscal Year 2020 budget. He’s unlikely to get it.

It’s been a rough two years under Trump, but America’s institutions are surviving.

Republicans are blindly loyal to this President in a way we have not seen before. They are likely to end up paying a price for that.

As it has since 2007, the Democratic National Committee is barring Fox News from hosting a debate featuring the party’s candidates for President.

The President continues to lie at an astounding rate that only seems to be getting worse. Does anyone care?

A new report demonstrates that the relationship between Fox News Channel and the Trump Administration is much closer and more pervasive than previously believed.

There appear to be enough votes in the Senate to pass the resolution disapproving President Trump’s border wall “emergency,” but there’s not enough Republican support to override an expected veto.

In a two-hour rant before an adoring crowd of CPAC sycophants. President Trump displayed everything wrong with him and his Presidency.

Republicans face a choice in the coming days. Do they support the Constitution, or do they support Donald Trump? You can count on them making the wrong choice.

President Trump and Kim Jong Un hold their second summit in Hanoi later this week, but it’s unlikely anything significant will happen.

A new poll shows that most Americans believe the Supreme Court’s landmark Roe v. Wade decision should remain the law on the land. Opinion on other abortion-related issues is more divided.

It turns out, The Duke wasn’t all that woke.

Actor Jussie Smollett is charged with staging an attack initially called a “hate crime.”

A Coast Guard officer and aspiring domestic terrorist was arrested late yesterday for plotting to kill Democratic politicians and members of the media.

Following Donald Trump’s lead, the GOP is making clear that its game plan for 2020 is paint all Democrats as ‘socialists, baby killers, and anti-Semites.’

Gender bias is real. Most examples cited, though, aren’t.

Saturday Night Live mocked the President’s declaration of a ‘national emergency,” which caused him to lash out on Twitter.

Patrick Caddell, who helped Jimmy Carter win the Democratic nomination and White House in 1976, has died at the age of 68.

Two months after being named, Heather Nauert withdrew her name as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations due to a ‘Nannygate’ problem.

Faced with a field that could be more crowded than the Republican field in 2016, Democrats have come up with a different solution to the rather obvious problem of debate scheduling.

Former Massachusetts Governor Bill Weld is preparing for a primary challenge against Donald Trump. He won’t win, but he could still have an impact.

The President will sign the bill to fund the government and avert another government shutdown, but in doing so he’ll also lay the groundwork for another showdown with Congress.

When it comes to the shutdown and border wall showdown that started back in December, Donald Trump is the biggest loser.

The former Attorney General is seriously pondering a presidential bid. Seriously.

It was only a matter of time before Trump’s rhetoric against the press would lead to something violent. Last night in El Paso, it happened.

Negotiations to avert another shutdown appear to have stalled over the weekend with just four days left to go before funding runs out.

Congress appears to be near a deal on border security and government funding, but it’s unclear if the President will be on board.

President Trump’s detailed schedules reveal a man who doesn’t seem to spend a lot of time actually working.

As public opinion of the President continues to slide his pandering to his far-right base increases.

Regardless of whether or not you think Nancy Pelosi won the government shutdown, Donald Trump clearly lost.

Roger Stone, who worked with the Trump campaign in an official and unofficial capacity throughout the campaign, has been indicted by Special Counsel Robert Mueller.

President Trump has backed down in his showdown with Speaker Pelosi over the State of the Union Address, but that does nothing to bring us closer to a resolution of the government shutdown.

As the shutdown continues, the President’s political position is becoming weaker. He doesn’t seem to care, though.

Two years into his Presidency, Donald Trump continues to set the wrong kind of records.

New polling seems to indicate that President Trump is losing support among an important part of his base.