Outside the Beltway

Waiting for the other side to self-destruct has always been ridiculous and dangerous.

The head football coach at the University of Maryland has been suspended after reports of a “toxic environment” that led to the death of a student athlete in June.

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.

Donald Trump wants Republicans to make his immigration policies the centerpiece of the midterm campaign. What could possibly go wrong?

A small group of Republican rebels in the House are attempting to push legislation protecting DACA beneficiaries to a floor vote. Unfortunately, they’re not likely to succeed.

Organizing protests was the easy part. The hard part for those who would seek to expand gun regulations is yet to come.

Students across the country are staging 17-minute protests at 10 am in their time zones.

The statute of limitations has expired. But he should never have been asked the question to begin with.

Continuing a pattern that has gone on for eight years now, the Supreme Court has declined to hear another appeal regarding a Second Amendment challenge to state gun control laws.

Donald Trumps’ tweets are the public statements of the President of the United States. This makes them noteworthy and often important.

An overwhelming majority of Australians voted in favor of marriage equality in a non-binding referendum. The ball is now in the court of the nation’s legislature to move forward.

Just three weeks after their home was hit by a devastating storm, Donald Trump is attacking Puerto Ricans for not recovering from the storm sooner.

President Trump’s weeklong effort to undermine his own Attorney General continues.

In addition to everything else on its plate, Congress will have to revisit raising the debt ceiling again sometime this summer.

A Federal Judge has dismissed a lawsuit that tried to make an end-run around the Senate and put Merrick Garland on the Supreme Court.

As expected, the Senate rejected four gun control measures introduced in the wake of the attack in Orlando.

Massive boycotts and protests likely spell the end of Tim Wolfe’s tenure as president.

In the wake of yesterday’s shootings in Oregon, President Obama took the airwaves to offer the same empty rhetoric he has on this issue in the past, and to make the false claim that there are simple solutions to what is a very complex problem.

Another poll confirms the fact that Americans of all political stripes continue to hold Congress is disdain.

Another poll shows that most Americans, and even most Republicans, support a pathway to citizenship for illegal immigrants.

A little known Congressman from North Carolina has filed a motion to “remove” John Boehner from the Speakership.

The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis has been charged criminally for its role in covering up sexual abuse of children by Priests.

In a move that is clearly designed to have an impact in the General Election, Hillary Clinton came out in support of broad immigration reform in Nevada yesterday.

Chinese analysts are telling their American counterparts that North Korea’s nuclear arsenal is far more sophisticated than previously believed.