Outside the Beltway

Democrats clashed, to some degree, in last night’s inaugural debate of the 2020 season but they clearly agreed far more than they disagreed.

One photograph that has gone viral is standing as a visualization of the Trump Administration’s inhumane asylum policies.

With hours to go before they were set to start. the President delayed the mass deportation raids that were supposed to begin this morning.

The latest is about deportations

President Trump’s opening rally of the 2020 campaign sounded an awful lot like a rally from 2016

The House of Representatives passed a bill that would extend protection to DACA beneficiaries and other Dreamers, but it’s likely to die in the Senate.

The United States and Mexico reached a last-minute deal to avert tariffs that would have gone into effect on Monday. Whether the deal accomplishes anything substantive remains to be seen.

Either Trump doesn’t understand what he is talking about, or he thinks his supporters are dumb.

Last night, President Trump announced a new round of tariffs against Mexico for reasons that have nothing to do with trade itself.

Did I leave the Republican Party or did it leave me? Both.

A months-long standoff is stopping hurricane relief.

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

Trump really has no plan about the border save for demagoging the issue.

The (Acting) Secretary of Defense has issued an unconstitutional order.

President Trump declared a national emergency at the southern border while at the same time undercutting his own case for doing so.

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.

Based on his appearance on CNN last night, Howard Schultz appears to be running a campaign about nothing.

The President’s second State of the Union began and ended with calls for unity. In between, it was filled with the divisive partisanship that has marked his Presidency.

A new poll shows most Americans oppose President Trump’s border wall and support more liberal immigration laws.

A new poll shows that most Americans would oppose a second government shutdown over the border wall.

Not surprisingly, the President’s proposed shutdown deal is not being received well by Democrats on Capitol Hill.

The initial reaction to President Trump’s proposal to reopen the government is not going over well on either side of the aisle.

President Trump put an offer on the table to end the shutdown, the question is whether it will actually lead anywhere.

Former HUD Secretary Julian Castro is the latest addition to the growing Democratic Presidential field.

Iowa’s Steve King has long expressed anti-immigrant and racist views, now he’s asking why that’s a bad thing.

New polling clearly indicates that the President is losing the battle for public opinion over the government shutdown.

Is it possible that the solution to the government shutdown is letting the President pretend he got funding for his border wall even though he didn’t?

With just hours to go, a partial government shutdown is becoming more and more likely.

It isn’t about foreign policy, it is about self-serving manipulation of the public.

Now that the election is over, President Trump and his sycophants in the right-wing media seem to have completely forgotten about the “invading” “caravan” of Central American asylum seekers.

National Republicans are worried that the President’s concentration on hot-button issues could end up backfiring. They should be.

President Trump is now claiming he will end birthright citizenship for the children of undocumented immigrants via Executive Order. He clearly lacks the authority to do this.

More outrageous behavior by the President of the United States.

New evidence indicates that the same Russian backed bots and trolls that sought to influence the 2016 election are now attempting to exploit the social divisions raised by the N.F.L. players kneeling during the National Anthem.

Passports being denied to citizens whose birth records are being questioned.

After a week, the race for the GOP nomination for Kansas Governor is over. Now it’s on to what could be an interesting General Election.

Laura Ingraham has responded to the deluge of criticism to her foolish and disturbing commentary. This response is also disturbing. Her attempt to walk back the racist tone of her monologue falls flat. Her statement trying to make her views more clear reveal more of her limited thinking on this matter and in general.

Kris Kobach, the controversial Secretary of State of Kansas who is also a Trump ally, holds on to a slim lead in the GOP Primary for Governor.

A Federal Appeals Court has found that a Trump Administration policy purporting to punish so-called sanctuary cities is unconstitutional.

More evidence that the politics of the moment aren’t just about illegal immigration.

A Federal Judge has rejected a Trump Administration effort to change a 20-year-old legal settlement that bars long-term detention of immigrant families.

A new poll finds that most Americans oppose key elements of the immigration policies that the President and Republicans in Congress support.

The situation isn’t as awful as portrayed by the AP—but it’s still pretty bad.

The calls to “Abolish ICE” are spreading to potential candidates for the 2020 Democratic Presidential nomination.

There is a frustration and a growing sense that the American political system is illegitimate.

New polling shows that the Trump Administration’s family separation policy is widely unpopular, with only Republicans supporting it. That last fact, though, is why Trump is unlikely to change the policy.

President Trump and his supporters are blaming the policy of separating parents and children at the border on Democrats. This is, simply put, a lie.

Two months ago, the President called on states to send National Guard troops to the border. As expected, they’re not guarding the border.

Virginia Republicans took a hard-right turn in yesterday’s primary. This is likely to benefit the Democrats.