Outside the Beltway

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

There are children being held in what amount to internment camps on the southern border under appallingly bad conditions and the President is more concerned with falsely blaming his predecessor for the problem.

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

Trump and Iran.

The costs to the American economy of President Trump’s ill-advised trade war continue to add up.

Despite his claims, President Trump is actually deporting fewer people than were deported under former President Obama.

Not surprisingly, the President’s opening speech of the 2020 campaign was filed with lies.

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

While the world is largely focused on the much larger trade war with China, the United States is engaged in a similar battle with a nation that ought to be a natural ally.

Maine has become the eighth state to pass a law allowing terminally ill the choice to bring their lives to a dignified end.

Four years ago, Donald Trump began his campaign for President. What has followed has been as bad as could have been predicted that day.

Donald Trump continues to lie at a record pace. Does anyone care?

President Trump’s tariffs are having a noticeable, and negative, impact on global economies. The President doesn’t seem to care.

The President and his supporters are touting the last-minute deal with Mexico announced on Friday, but the details show there’s much less than meets the eye.

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.

May’s Jobs Report came back with disappointing jobs growth, suggesting that the economy may be slowing down.

After coming under attack from within his own party, former Vice-President Joe Biden has changed his position on the Hyde Amendment.

Donald Trump has betrayed the legacy and the sacrifices of the soldiers who fought their way onto the beaches of Normandy.

Former Vice-President Biden has come under fire for his longtime support for the Hyde Amendment.

The GOP Senators standing up against the President’s tariffs on Mexico are being called courageous. I’m wondering what took them so long to stand up.

A new poll of Texas voters shows President Trump doing worse than expected against potential Democratic challengers. Should Republicans be worried?

The President’s foolish tariffs against Mexico are finally causing many Republican Senators to stand up against him.

A Federal Judge in Washington, D.C. dismissed a lawsuit against Trump “national emergency” to fund the border wall, but his ruling did not reach the merits of the lawsuit’s claim.

His colum in WaPo isn’t very good.

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

Wherein I explore the notion that ignorance is bliss.

It’s been just about fifteen months since President Trump imposed tariffs on imported steel and aluminum. Not surprisingly, those tariffs have not had the effect the President claimed they would.

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

As Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush remind us, there was a time when Republicans weren’t xenophobic nationalists when it comes to immigration policy.

So good. So easy to win.

Justin Amash doubled down on his criticism of the President and his call for impeachment even as he came under fire from fellow Republicans.

The President unveiled some incoherent ideas yesterday that have no chance of becoming law.

The President’s trade policies stand to benefit a lot of other countries, just not the United States.

As it has in so many other areas, the right has sacrificed it’s previously held beliefs on international trade to feckless obedience toward President Trump.

A longstanding legal question may finally come to a head.

Valerie Plame, the former CIA agent whose identity was outed during the Bush Administration, is running for Congress in New Mexico.

Donald Trump’s tariffs are hurting the American economy, American consumers, and American businesses.

As the Friday deadline for trade talks with China approaches, President Trump is threatening even more tariffs.

Its explanation for why its paywall is coming down 3 days leads us to an obvious question.

A months-long standoff is stopping hurricane relief.

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

Ballot measures across the country would deny access to those who refuse to release tax returns.

The House of Representatives is asking a Federal Judge to block the President’s emergency declaration to fund his border wall.

The Supreme Court’s conservative majority appears poised to uphold the inclusion of a citizenship question on the 2020 Census.

More pressures on a region already struggling.

Stephen Miller and others wanted to punish Nancy Pelosi and other Democrats by dumping detained migrants in their districts.

In 2016, a crowded Republican field yielded an unlikely nominee. Could history repeat itself in 2020?

Trump’s threat will not make things better (and the notion of actually closing the border is insane).