Outside the Beltway

By the end of today, Donald Trump will most likely be the third President of the United States to be impeached by the House of Representatives.

A key economic statistic that rarely gets widespread public attention is showing that the manufacturing sector has been in recession for four months now.

Even as candidates like Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders continue to base their campaigns on it, Democrats appear to be growing skeptical of ‘Medicare For All.’

Tuesday’s elections continued a trend in which Republicans have lost support among suburban voters, even in deeply red states. Guess who’s responsible for that.

After coming under fire for a decision designed primarily to benefit himself and his family, President Trump has decided to walk back the decision to hold the next G-7 Summit at one of his properties.

The Commission on Presidential Debates has released the schedule and criteria for the General Election debates. As usual, the criteria are heavily biased in favor of the major party candidates.

Yesterday, the Supreme Court held oral argument in a series of cases asking it to decide if existing civil rights laws cover discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity.

Something fun to cleanse the palate.

She’s been fibbing about how she left a teaching job nearly half a century ago.

From manufacturing to trade, the negative impact of Trump’s tariffs is becoming quite apparent.

The effort to bring Catholic Church officials to justice for their decades of criminal conspiracy and child abuse continues to move forward.

The Trump Administration is considering banning flavored electronic cigarettes. This would be a a bad idea.

The map shows the flaws of the Electoral College

President Trump doubled down on his tirade against Jewish American Democrats from yesterday with some even more offensive comments.

Prime Minister Netanyahu’s actions toward two Democratic Congresswomen,seemingly at the bidding of President Trump, is the latest example of the growing partisan divide over policy toward Israel.

After urging from President Trump, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has barred two Muslim-American Congressmen from visiting Israel. It is a foolish and outrageous decision.

The only African-American Republican in the House of Representatives is retiring, and that should worry Republicans nationwide.

A new poll has a majority of respondents saying the President is a racist. He won’t care.

Trump’s attacks on racial minorities are going to continue, and get worse, the closer we get to 2020. Because stirring up fear and racial resentment among white working-class voters is the only way he can win.

Even a Fox News poll finds that the American public finds the President’s recent rhetoric to be racist. There’s a different picture when you look at his supporters, though.

He could lose the popular vote by an even larger margin in 2020—and still coast to re-election.

Donald Trump returned to the campaign trail last night with another one of his red meat speeches. The analogies it causes one to draw are chilling to say the least.

For the first time in a century, a chamber of Congress has voted to condemn a sitting President. That won’t stop this President.

Just over nine years after retiring from the Supreme Court, former Associate Justice John Paul Stevens has passed away at the age of 99.

Some agree with him. Many others are cowards. But there’s more to it.

The failure of Republicans and conservatives to denounce the President’s racism reveals everything that has gone wrong with the “right” in the Trump Era.

Trump opened his mouth and, once again, racist bilge came spewing out.

After a year of fighting, the Administration has given up on its effort to get a citizenship question on the 2020 Census.

Detroit shows how modern technology can lead to a virtual police state.

Later today, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals will hear argument in a case that could upend the Affordable Care Act.

Should the pundit class look more like America?

Bernie Sanders is finding that the 2020 campaign is very different from 2016.

The Supreme Court issued a significant ruling on Monday that could make it easier to buy and sell alcoholic beverages across state lines.

Various federal and state agencies are enforcing existing laws while Congress scrambles to update them.

It’s still way too early to be predictive, but the latest head-to-head matches between the President and the top contenders for the Democratic nomination.

A new poll shows the former Vice-President leading Senator Elizabeth Warren in her home state.

Michigan Congressman Justin Amash has quit a group he helped found nine years ago after they voted to condemn him for advocating for the President’s impeachment.

Further progress for advocates of marijuana legalization from the Land of Lincoln.

Michigan Congressman Justin Amash doubled down on his assertion that the Attorney General was deliberately misleading Congress and the American public.

Justin Amash’s call for impeachment of the President, and the Republican Party’s reaction to it, is telling us a lot about the current state of the GOP.

In the latest development in the child sex abuse investigations in the Catholic Church in the United States, five former Priests in Michigan have been arrested on sex abuse charges.

Michigan Congressman Justin Amash is the lone Republican voice speaking out against the President, and he’s making a strong case for his position in favor of impeachment.

As the Administration continues to stonewall legitimate requests from Congress for documents and witnesses, pressure is growing on Speaker Pelosi to authorize the opening of an impeachment inquiry.

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

Justin Amash spoke out against the President and Attorney General. Unsurprisingly this is not being received well by his fellow Republicans.

Republican Congressman Justin Amash has always been a rebel within his own party, now he’s making that even more apparent.

An investigation has found that a doctor linked to Ohio State’s wrestling program abused more than 170 students during his time at the school.

A new poll shows President Trump trailing several of his potential challenger in a state that was crucial to his victory in 2016.