Outside the Beltway

The president has abrogated his duty to “take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed.”

President Trump remains obsessed with the Russian investigation and continues to try to shut it down.

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

Republicans now face a stark choice.

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

Donald Trump has had harsher things to say about Rosie O’Donnell than he did about the people responsible for yesterday’s violence. That says something about him.

After 200 days, President Trump’s job approval numbers are hitting new lows.

Vice-President Pence is advocating the admission of Georgia into NATO. That would be a bad idea.

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.

Seven years of rhetoric on health care reform ended early this morning with a narrow vote on a bill that even Republicans didn’t really support.

In a vote close enough to require the Vice-President to cast a tie-breaking vote, the Senate voted to proceed to debate on a health care bill even though nobody seems to know what bill they’ll ultimately be voting on.

Sad news about a Washington stalwart.

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

New polling indicates that the Affordable Care Act has gained in popularity with the American public, while Republican reform efforts are viewed overwhelmingly negatively.

With the fate of the Senate health care reform bill hanging in the balance, the Senate will delay consideration of the bill due to the unexpected absence of one Senator.

The Senate GOP’s effort to ‘repeal and replace’ the Affordable Care Act is headed for a bumpy ride.

The Senate is back from its recess, but no closer to a health care bill that has any realistic chance of passing.

For some reason, Joe Lieberman is apparently the front-runner to replace James Comey at the F.B.I.

There seems to be no question that the decision to fire James Comey was motivated largely by the President’s frustrations over the fact that his campaign is under investigation.

The tiny Balkan nation of Montenegro is set to become the latest member of the NATO alliance despite the fact that there is seemingly no good reason for it.

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

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.

An unsurprising ‘resignation’ from the shortest-serving National Security Adviser in history.

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.

It is Trump’s party now. Impeachment is not coming.

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.

A movement motivated by hurt and fear turned into a political force eight years ago. Can another follow suit?

Secretary of State John Kerry’s speech on Middle East peace was largely correct, but his words are pointless given the fact that neither Israel nor the Palestinians seem serious about peacefully resolving their differences.

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

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

The head of the biggest energy company in the world is reportedly Donald Trump’s pick for Secretary of State.

In the end, there was no other logical choice.

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

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

Senior Republican Senators are throwing cold water on the idea of eliminating the filibuster.

Defying the odds, Republicans held on in several traditionally Democratic states to keep control of the Senate.

With Donald Trump on the ballot, Bill Maher regrets some past words. He shouldn’t be the only one.

It has become necessary to destroy the party in order to save it.

Two Republican Senators are exchanging barbs over the idea that the GOP should block any attempt by Hillary Clinton to nominate anyone to the Supreme Court if she becomes President.

Republican candidates for the Senate and House are campaigning on the argument that they will be a bulwark against a Clinton Presidency.

Has any major party nominee for president ever damaged his reputation in this manner?

Donald Trump is losing something much more important to him that an election.

The final debate of 2016 didn’t draw as many viewers as the first Hillary v. Donald match-up, but it still drew a respectable number.