Outside the Beltway

Legions of unpaid drones . . . ? . . . budget cuts.

Gaetz’s own party hates him almost as much as the Democrats hate him

It’s neither unprecedented nor powerful. It doesn’t exist.

I question the timing.

Did Trump’s stoic reaction win him the election?

But the story will continue for a while yet.

Democrats desperate for a different nominee are falling in line as the President refuses to go.

A trailblazer is gone at 90.

You’re not helping, Mr. President.

The United States has not learned from Snowden and Manning.

The problem has intensified—and spread beyond Ukraine secrets.

The Pentagon Papers guy laments that there are too few like him.

Hubris has set back the cause of science.

A more dangerous world is changing the relationship.

House Democrats are releasing them because they can.

The CIA warned of his months ago but the Biden administration is being cautious.

Foreign policy makes strange bedfellows.

The Biden Administration is constantly bragging about its actions against Russia. Is that wise?

Democrats want the DOJ to act more quickly.

Are Fauci, the CDC, and others getting a bum rap?

Trump’s last Secretary of Defense is being stymied by preclearance review.

American cheese will henceforth be known as liberté cheese. And not because of the metric system.

A pandemic and the rise of Zoom meetings unleashed an academic theory into the wild.

Thousands of centrifuges have been destroyed.

A truly chaotic combination.

Yet more flouting of the rule of law by the Trump administration.

The reporting demonstrates the uncomfortable truth.

A report outlining steps for re-opening the economy in the wake of COVID-19 has been leaked to the press.

A bold new plan for security in the Middle East.

Jeff Sessions entered the race for the GOP nomination for Senate in Alabama by heaping obsequious and pathetic praise on a man who had spent two years insulting him publicly and privately

The man who sparked the investigation into the President’s illegal conduct has been outed in a futile attempt to discredit it.

Yes, officials who follow the law are “whistleblowers.”

The past week has demonstrated more notably than any other that this President is not well.

Not surprisingly, there are other phone call transcripts and other communications that further complicate Trump’s position.

What we know for sure.

A Harvard law professor makes my case better than I did.

In a rebuke to traditional conservative views of Federalism, the Trump Administration intends to revoke California’s authority to set its own clean air standards,

The Democratic National Committee is moving to block efforts by the state parties in Iowa and Nevada to open up the caucus process to more participants, citing security issues.

Robert Mueller didn’t provide a smoking gun yesterday, but the President and his supporters are wrong to claim that the hearing vindicated the President.

The ground shook overnight in Southern California for the second time in two days.

Just fire the pollster.

Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has been indicted on seventeen counts under the Espionage Act arising out of his role in the Chelsea Manning affair.

Not surprisingly, Chelsea Manning is headed back to jail for her refusal to answer questions before a Federal Grand Jury investigating Julian Assange and Wikileaks.

A Federal Appeals Court has rejected Chelsea Manning’s bid to be released from jail notwithstanding her refusal to comply with a Grand Jury Subpoena.

It seems as if Donald Trump finally has the AG he has always wanted.

The replacement of Anthony Kennedy with Brett Kavanaugh is already having a significant impact.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is being charged with three charges of corruption even as he faces an election in just over a month.

President Trump’s detailed schedules reveal a man who doesn’t seem to spend a lot of time actually working.

As public opinion of the President continues to slide his pandering to his far-right base increases.

Roger Stone, who worked with the Trump campaign in an official and unofficial capacity throughout the campaign, has been indicted by Special Counsel Robert Mueller.