Outside the Beltway

Coming to a television set or Internet livestream near you sometime after Memorial Day.

The Russia investigation seems to be getting closer to the Oval Office.

The evidence that President Trump fired James Comey in an effort to quash the Russia investigation continues to mount.

The Anthony Weiner saga comes to an ignominious end.

After news of the appointment of a special counsel in the Russia investigation, Donald Trump’s persecution complex was on full display.

The Trump White House knew Michael Flynn was under investigation and named him National Security Adviser anyway.

A Constitutional coup d’etat is not the way to solve the Donald Trump problem.

Even with the revelations of the last three weeks, impeaching the President is still largely a fantasy.

In Fox News Channel’s America, Donald Trump can do no wrong and Hillary Clinton is still a threat.

Another day, another allegation against the President. This time, though, it’s very, very serious.

President Trump’s decision to share highly classified information with the Russians is yet another demonstration of his dangerous hubris and incompetence.

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!