Outside the Beltway

Within hours after being fired as Secretary of Veterans Affairs, David Shulkin was fighting back.

Profiles in courage? With Republicans in the Trump Era, it’s more like profiles in cowardice.

If there are charges of criminal wrongdoing, we’ll definitely know. Otherwise, it all depends on how he sees his role.

A gadfly candidate who has denied the truth of the Holocaust won a GOP primary in Illinois because nobody ran against him.

A famous name enters the race to challenge Andrew Cuomo, but it’s unlikely she’ll have much of an impact.

Joseph E. diGenova has touted the theory that rogue FBI elements have tried to frame Trump in the Russia probe.

Will Bunch wildly exaggerates the Cambridge Analytica scandal.

Things are looking good for Democrats in 2018, but there’s some speculation that Nancy Pelosi’s position at the head of the party in the House could be in danger.

The FBI’s former deputy director was shamefully fired late Friday night, after which President Trump gloated on Twitter.

Conor Lamb’s win in Pennsylvania’s 18th Congressional District has set off an inevitable debate inside the Democratic Party about how to approach the upcoming midterm elections.

Having journalistic integrity at the Fair and Balanced network has never been more challenging.

Individual races are idiosyncratic. But there are nonetheless some lessons here.

Rex Tillerson was an awful Secretary of State who simply had to go, It’s quite possible his successor will be an even greater disaster.

Ending an investigation that was flawed and tainted with partisanship from the start, the House Intelligence Committee has abruptly concluded its investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election.

The 80-year-old Mississippi Republican, who was first elected to the Senate in 1978 after serving six years in the House, has been in poor health.

POLITICO buries the lede in making the case for “Donald Trump’s bubble presidency.”

After skipping such events in his first thirteen months in office, the President tried his hand at stand-up last night to mixed reviews.

The President jokingly praised his Chinese counterpart’s power grab at a fundraiser. But he seriously doesn’t understand the rule of law.

Was the 2016 contest unique, or are we destined to forever vote against the candidate we hate most?

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

President Trump continues to deny the reality of Russian interference in the 2016 campaign, and he’s failing to act to make sure it doesn’t happen again.

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

Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee have released a memo that completely eviscerates the memo prepared by Committee Chairman Devin Nunes.

The Mueller investigation moves forward.

The students who survived last week’s mass shooting in Parkland, Florida are speaking out, and some on the right are responding by engaging in personal attacks and spreading conspiracy theories.

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.

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

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.

To the surprise of nobody, Mitt Romney entered the race to succeed Orrin Hatch in the Senate. He’ll probably win.

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

Whether it’s the abuse angle or the more serious issue of security clearances, the White House still can’t get the story straight on the Rob Porter case.

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.

Republicans spent the eight years of Obama Administration railing against fiscal irresponsibility. Now that they have power, they’re the ones being fiscally irresponsible.

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.

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.

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.

A newly released poll has encouraging signs for Democrats in 2018, but there are several caveats.

A confusing new report from the Washington Post.

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.

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 2008 Republican nominee for president condemned his party and its president for the release of a controversial memo attacking the FBI.

Republicans have released the memo prepared by Congressman Devin Nunes that purports to call into question the basis for the Russia investigation. In the end, though, it amounts to much ado about nothing.

Imagine a world where Hillary Clinton was President and stood accused of the same things Donald Trump and his campaign are currently under investigation for.