Outside the Beltway

Is it time to reexamine Presidential authority to launch a nuclear strike?

It appears Russia attempted to influence last year’s Brexit vote in the same manner it did the 2016 election in the United States.

To nobody’s surprise, a blue state returns to its roots.

Without mentioning his successor by name, former President Bush delivered a stinging rebuke to Trump and Trumpism.

Donald Trump’s entire modus operandi involves pushing divisive cultural hot buttons.

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.

Stephen Paddock’s crime was clearly terrorizing, and will impact the lives of survivors, families, first responders in many ways for a long time. Based on the currently available evidence, though, the Las Vegas shooting was not “terrorism.”

While Puerto Rico suffers, President Trump is spending the weekend at his New Jersey golf resort attacking people on the ground who are actually doing something.

The Trump Administration has issued a new travel ban to replace the temporary one that expired late last week, but it still suffers from most of the same defects as its initial efforts.

More evidence of apparent Russian-backed efforts to interfere in the election.

Trump makes a DACA deal, apparently.

In less than a month, voters in the Catalan region of Spain will be voting whether to remain part of Spain or assert independence.

President Trump likes to take credit for the state of the economy, but the truth is that things are actually doing slightly worse under his Administration than they were under his predecessor.

John Kelly has only been White House Chief of Staff for a month, but it’s already apparent that he isn’t likely to last very long in that position.

They may both be Republicans, but the relationship between the President and the Senate Majority Leader is bad and seems to be getting worse.

Donald Trump gave a campaign-style speech in Phoenix last night and reminded us of everything that’s wrong with him.

Three new polls show Trump’s job approval down significantly in the three states that put him over the top in the Electoral College last year.

The problem with the Trump White House is the man who sits behind the Resolute Desk.

Republicans now face a stark choice.

President Trump once again revealed his true self at a press conference yesterday.

The president’s begrudging condemnation of evil didn’t last long.

Donald Trump’s core supporters in the Republican Party remain intensely loyal, and that seems unlikely to change.

The President has endorsed a bill that would cut legal immigration in half.

A new poll shows that most Americans want Republicans want to move on from their failed effort to ‘repeal and replace’ the Affordable Care Act.

With the defection of two more Senators, the latest effort to ‘repeal and replace’ the Affordable Care Act has gone down in flames.

The June Jobs Report was significantly better than what we saw in May but on the whole not different from what we’ve seen for the last three years or so.

After seven years that mostly consisted of losing elections, there’s a battle going on over which direction the party should head.

No wonder they wrote it in secret and want to move quickly to a vote…

For the third time since December,, the Federal Reserve has raised interest rates.

Donald Trump’s first Cabinet Meeting looked like something out of a Maoist propaganda video.

Democrat Phil Murphy and Republican Kim Guadagno will face off against each other to succeed Chris Christie in New Jersey.

After failing twice in a month, House Republicans apparently think they have the votes to pass their bill to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act.

The Trump Administration is out with a tax plan, but it’s seriously lacking in details.

Donald Trump has basically declared war on the people who blocked the AHCA from passing last week.

So far, there’s no sign that Donald Trump is having much of an impact on the economy.

Republicans are saying that repealing the PPACA isn’t off the table, but practically speaking it probably is.

The Oakland Los Angeles Oakland Raiders are headed to Vegas, baby!

A major legislative defeat for Paul Ryan, the House GOP, and President Trump.

With a vote tentatively scheduled for this evening, House Republicans appear to lack the votes to pass the American Health Care Act.

Reports indicate that President Trump will seek to increase military spending. We don’t need to, and we can’t really afford it.

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.

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