Outside the Beltway

Just about two months into office, Donald Trump’s job approval number are worse than any newly elected President since World War II.

It may well be that the 25th Amendment, not the impeachment clause, will be his undoing.

Judge Neil Gorsuch’s confirmation hearings begin Monday morning, but it’s Senate Democrats who are in the hot seat.

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

Donald Trump took to Twitter again this morning with predictable results.

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

Attorney General Jeff Sessions apparently misled Senators when asked about his contact with Russian officials.

Well, at least someone has a backbone.

One month in, some Trump supporters are starting to wonder if he will actually deliver on what he promised.

Donald Trump’s job approval numbers are the lowest for any new President since World War II. That doesn’t bode well for his Administration’s future.

Budget hawks in the GOP face a showdown with Donald Trump’s spending ambitions this year that will likely decide whether we’ll ever get spending under control.

President Trump has actually made a good pick for National Security Adviser. As with the rest of his foreign policy team, though, the question is if he’ll listen to him.

For seventy-seven minutes yesterday, President Trump held forth in a press conference that confirmed the most dire predictions about what he’d be like as President.

Independent of the current controversy surrounding President Trump’s immigration order, Republicans in Congress are looking at a plan to break up the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.

There are growing signs that the Deep State is seeking to thwart legal orders from President Trump. This is dangerous.

Another judicial slap at the Trump Administration.

By the end of last night’s oral argument, at least two of the three judges hearing the appeal of the stay on the President’s Muslim travel ban appeared to be skeptical of the Federal Government’s arguments.

An initial setback for the Federal Government in its appeal of the ruling putting President Trump’s Muslim travel ban on hold.

Donald Trump’s initial job approval numbers are lower than any President since the EIsenhower Administration.

A legal victory, at least for now, for opponents of Donald Trump’s ban on immigration from seven majority Muslim nations.

Today in “Alternative Facts.”

With a relatively smooth announcement, Donald Trump has named a solid and qualified conservative who will likely be confirmed to the nation’s highest court.

After just over a week in office, Donald Trump already has a negative job approval number. That’s a modern record.

President Trump will name his first Supreme Court pick on his 11th day in office.

President Trump hinted today that he’s likely to name his Supreme Court choice next week, and the list to appears have narrowed to three men.

The first full day of Donald Trump’s Presidency consisted largely of obsessions with irrelevant facts and outright lies.

While vigilance is called for, America will survive Donald Trump just as it has survived everything else we’ve faced since the nation’s founding.

Trump’s populism, personalism, and irresponsibility are on display.

President Obama thinks he would have beaten Donald Trump. And he’s probably right.

Republicans are afraid to oppose Donald Trump for fear that his supporters will come after them.

While hardly the most compelling argument against an archaic institution, yesterday’s silliness was noteworthy.

Delegating the morning briefing to advisors isn’t actually that unusual.

Hillary Clinton’s national campaign wasn’t nearly as well-organized as we’d been led to believe.

A controversial member of George W. Bush’s foreign policy team is up for a post in Donald Trump’s State Department.

Notwithstanding the election results, support for eliminating the Electoral College is at a 20-year low.

As things stand, Democrats will have a hard time winning back control in the Senate in 2018.

Three of the top four national security positions in Donald Trump’s Cabinet will be filled by retired Generals. This isn’t necessarily a good thing.

Donald Trump says he will ‘leave his business,’ but is providing very few details and continuing to leave the impression that he will enter office with more conflicts of interest than any previous President in American history.

Donald Trump resurrects an old debate and desecrates the Constitution in the process.

Donald Trump claims he won an Electoral College landslide. This is a bald-faced lie.

One of the Cold War era’s last dictators has finally died.

Debunked!

For Donald Trump, it appears that ignorance is bliss.

Canada is phasing out coal as a source of electricity production by 2030. The same thing will happen in the United States no matter how much politicians try to stop it.

Kentucky Senator Rand Paul is speaking out against several of President-Elect Trump’s proposed Cabinet nominees.

One professor is suggesting that Bernie Sanders played a role in 2016 similar to the one that Ralph Nader did in 2000. It doesn’t pass even cursory examination.