Outside the Beltway

Two years after the Supreme Court’s landmark ruling, nearly two-thirds of Americans support the idea of legal marriage rights for gay and lesbian Americans.

The President is being fed “news” from questionable news sources, and that’s a problem.

Everywhere one turns, it seems, there’s Russia.

Evidence continues to mount that the Russia investigation was the real motivation for President Trump’s decision to fire James Comey.

Republicans are finding that their constituents aren’t very happy about the passage of the American Health Care Act.

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.

Less than a week after revealing that the F.B.I. was investigating the Trump campaign regarding ties with Russia, F.B.I. Director James Comey has been fired by President Trump.

The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals heard argument yesterday in the appeal of an order barring travel from six Muslim countries, and it didn’t appear to go well for the attorneys defending the ban.

By the barest of margins, the House passed its bill repealing and replacing the Affordable Care Act, but the future of that bill is highly uncertain.

F.B.I. Director James Comey testified yesterday on the reasons he chose to publicly speak out just days before the 2016 election about the reopened Clinton email investigation.

A guilty plea in a particularly shocking case of police brutality.

There’s already speculation that former Vice-President Biden might try for a third run at the White House, but it seems unlikely.

Instead of attending the White House Correspondents Association Dinner, Donald Trump spent his Saturday attacking the press and the First Amendment.

After 100 days in office, President Trump has very little to show for his work except to show that there’s no reason to trust his judgment going forward.

The North Koreans failed to successfully test a longer-range missile again yesterday, but tensions on the Korean Peninsula seem destined to increase in any case.

Donald Trump discovers reality.

The Trump Administration is out with a tax plan, but it’s seriously lacking in details.

The organizers are paying for prestige, not influence.

With a government shutdown looming at the end of the week, the Administration has appeared to back away from a demand that a government funding bill include money allocated for the President’s promised border wall.

The 44th President will make as for a one-hour speech as his old annual salary. Should we worry about that?

Another Federal Court has found another Trump Executive Order unconstitutional.

Polling indicates that voters find the Democratic Party to be even more out of step than the Republican Party.

Six months after the election, the postmortems of the Clinton campaign all seem to have one thing in common, they all point at things other than the candidate and her campaign as being the reason she lost.

Even the most offensive speech is protected by the First Amendment.

Another big change at Fox News Channel.

States are considering laws that would require candidates for President to release their tax returns, but such laws are probably unconstitutional.

It’s been a bad week for U.S.-Russian relations.

Inconceivably, Steve Bannon thought that clashing with President Trump’s daughter and son-in-law was a good idea. He’s likely learned his lesson now.

A top Trump campaign adviser was the subject of a FISA warrant for at least part of last year.

A big win for opponents of Voter ID laws.

After starting the year with two good months, the jobs report for March was quite disappointing.

So far, there’s no sign that Donald Trump is having much of an impact on the economy.

The Oakland Los Angeles Oakland Raiders are headed to Vegas, baby!

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.

The failure of the AHCA shows that Donald Trump doesn’t know the slightest thing about leadership or how to be President.

Donald Trump isn’t going to change, and that’s bad news for all of us.

Rachel Maddow hyped the fact that she had obtained a copy of Trump’s 2005 tax return last night. It turned out to be much ado about nothing.

The National Weather Service didn’t want to confuse the public by changing the forecast at the last minute.

Part Two in a series of observations about health care and health insurance in light of the introduction of the House GOP’s health care plan. This post examines several ideas advanced by conservatives, and the reasons they aren’t complete answers to the problems we face.

Senate Democrats are divided on how to approach the nomination of Judge Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court, making it likely that he’ll be confirmed.

The Congressional Budget Office delivered some bad news yesterday to House Republicans on their replacement for Obamacare.

An unusual, if not unexpected, mass firing at the Justice Department on Friday afternoon.

The first Jobs Report for the first full month of the Trump Presidency is out, but it’s nothing to write home about.

Health care policy analysts seem united in their assessment of the House GOP’s replacement for the Affordable Care Act, and it’s overwhelmingly negative.

President Trump has issued a revised ban on travel from six predominantly Muslim nations.