Outside the Beltway

In addition to being mandated by the Constitution, birthright citizenship goes to the core of what it means to be an American.

The GOP is likely to lose control of the House of Representatives tomorrow, but could this actually help Trump?

Anti-Semitic violence has increased markedly over the past two years. So has the spread of far-right “anti-Globalist” conspiracy theories. This is not a coincidence.

As the midterm campaign draws to a close, Donald Trump is returning to the message of xenophobia and fear that dominated his Presidential campaign.

On Wednesday Trump tweeted out a crass, dishonest ad in hopes of leveraging fear and racism as a political tool.

President Trump wants to send more troops than we have in Syria and Iraq combined to the border to deal with a non-existent threat.

President Trump is now claiming he will end birthright citizenship for the children of undocumented immigrants via Executive Order. He clearly lacks the authority to do this.

The blatant stoking of irrational fear as campaign politics.

The vise is tightening on the Catholic Church.

Marijuana is now legal in Canada, and many people are watching the country to see how it adjusts to this change.

Donald Trump is a coward and an apologist for evil around the world.

One of the people most responsible for the personal computer revolution has passed away at the far-too-young age of 65.

After nearly a year, Trump’s trade policies are having their inevitable negative impact inside the United States.

President Trump is choosing money and moral cowardice over human life in his response to the disappearance of Jamal Khashoggi.

President Trump got his revised version of NAFTA, but Canadians are less positive about the United States than they have been in at least twenty years.

After placing limits on the scope of the F.B.I.’s reopened background investigation of Judge Brett Kavanaugh, the White House has relented and is allowing a more open-ended investigation.

Thanks to a last-minute agreement, the United States and Canada reached an agreement for a revised version of NAFTA. It’s a got a new name, but it’s basically NAFTA 2.0.

President Trump is once again threatening to lower the tariff hammer on one of America’s most reliable allies and biggest trading partners.

President Trump’s second speech to the General Assembly of the United Nations wasn’t much better than the first, but it it did get the world laughing at us.

Donald Trump’s trade war is helping China expand its diplomatic influence.

President Trump is set to expand his ill-advised, economically ignorant, trade war with China.

In the past, President Trump has threatened to shut down the government if the doesn’t get what he wants in the budget. The latest budget deal effectively dares him to do it.

With the primaries over, we can say that it’s been quite a successful year for women in politics.

Several states are opening new investigations of the Catholic Church abuse scandal. It’s about time.

The fact that American officials talked with Venezuelans plotting a coup against the government of their country is a dangerous turn of events.

Passports being denied to citizens whose birth records are being questioned.

President Trump is alienating our allies and making friends with dictators, and the world is responding as you might expect they would.

California is taking a major step in Criminal Justice reform by eliminating cash bail.

As expected, Rick Scott easily won the GOP nomination for Senate in Florida, setting up one of the most highly anticipated Senate races of the year.

President Trump’s much-hyped replacement for NAFTA doesn’t really amount to much and won’t amount to anything unless he can get Canada, and the U.S. Congress, on board.

Senator John McCain has died at the age of 81,

Gary Johnson was a successful two-term Governor in New Mexico. Now he’s making a bid to represent the Land of Enchantment in the U.S. Senate.

A new government report indicates that President Trump’s border wall will cost billions more than initially projected. And Mexico still isn’t going to pay for it.

The legal fight over DACA could end up posing problems for Republicans in November.

The first night of games in the N.F.L. pre-season included some sporadic protests during the National Anthem, and prompted a predictable response from the President.

The frequency and ease with which this President lies is, to say the least, alarming.

President Trump is suggesting he may force a government shutdown over his immigration policies just a month before the midterm elections.

The natural intuition of the aluminum tariff is that it would help Alcoa, the largest manufacturer of aluminum in the U.S. But apparently these things are a bit more complicated that one’s intuition would indicate.

I have heard Trump supporters offer the following rationale for Trump’s tarris, “It is a bargaining strategy.” Then they sit back and smirk, and tell me, “Trump really wants zero tariffs, but to get these other countries to come to the table he has to get their attention. And once he has softened them up, they’ll be willing to reduce their tariffs.”

The economy grew at an exceptionally strong pace according to the first estimate of GDP growth, but several caveats remain.

Notwithstanding his dismissive public rhetoric about the former Vice-President, Donald Trump apparently sees Joe Biden as his biggest potential threat in 2020.

The President is apparently getting ready to take yet another ill-advised step in his ill-advised, economically illiterate trade war.

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.

A new poll finds that most Americans oppose key elements of the immigration policies that the President and Republicans in Congress support.

The situation isn’t as awful as portrayed by the AP—but it’s still pretty bad.

The ill-advised move is sure to raise costs for businesses and consumers and roil global stock markets.

Donald Trump had to be talked down from considering military intervention in Venezuela.

An idiot climbed the monument, wasting police resources and ruining the day for hundreds of visitors.

Donald Trump’s trade war continues to have negative consequences for American consumers and businesses.

A thoughtful liberal argues the Justice has “altered and destroyed his legacy” by allowing Donald Trump to appoint his successor.