Outside the Beltway

Donald Trump is suing the District Attorney in Manhattan to stop him from getting copies of Trump’s tax returns.

The White House has succeeded in killing, for now, the White House Daily Press Briefing and in making itself the least transparent Administration in recent history.

A familiar name has entered the race for the Democratic Senate nomination in Massachusetts.

The details about President Trump’s attempts to get Ukraine to investigate the son of one of his potential 2020 rivals keep getting worse for the President.

A wrongheaded solution for a legitimate problem.

Eighteen years after it started, the American public seems to be mostly ignoring the war in Afghanistan. But that isn’t an excuse for not bringing it to an end.

A startling statistic that hides a more comforting reality.

A Harvard law professor makes my case better than I did.

It’s still early in the election cycle but there’s plenty for the President to worry about.

Let’s not kid ourselves about what’s possible in the next election.

A new look at the allegations against Justice Brett Kavanaugh uncovers some new evidence.

In the US, the candidate defines the party, not the other way around.

As doubts about the health of the economy start to mount, President Trump’s job approval is starting to suffer.

Some reports are suggesting that Secretary of State Mike Pompeo might take on the additional role of National Security Adviser.

President Trump took to Twitter late this morning to fire his third National Security Adviser.

There’s the truth, and then there’s Donald Trump’s version of the truth. The two are seldom related.

Former Republican Congressman and Governor Mark Sanford is running for President.

For Donald Trump, the Presidency has been nothing but a get richer quick scam.

The August Jobs Report came in below expectations as other economic statistics point to a slowing economy.

A Federal Judge in Virginia has found the terrorist watch list unconstitutional.

So weird.

The map shows the flaws of the Electoral College

The 10th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled last week that states cannot punish electors who fail to follow the will of the majority of voters n their state or state laws purporting to direct how they should vote.

Kirsten Gillibrand has dropped out of a Presidential race few people realized she was in.

A new poll shows that most Americans want President Trump out of office, but don’t want to see the House impeach him.

Controversial former Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, who was voted out of office in 2016 after serving six terms in office, is running to get his old job back.

President Trump continues to have an odd obsession with nuclear weapons.

In this case, Rich Lowry’s.

Donald Trump’s delusions of grandeur are getting more and more bizarre.

Former Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper, who dropped out of the race for President just last week, is running for Senate in his home state.

As a candidate, Donald Trump promised to bring jobs back to the United States, especially manufacturing jobs. It hasn’t worked out that way.

Donald Trump lies with the ease that the rest of us tie our shoes. Will that fact have an impact on voters?

Donald Trump has found a new far-right lunatic to retweet.

Trump’s trip to El Paso in one photo and two videos.

On a day that called for national unity and empathy, President Trump couldn’t help but revert to form.

While Democrats debated among themselves about health care plans that will likely never become law, Republicans were pushing forward with judicial confirmations.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg isn’t very impressed by the proposals made by several liberal politicians lately to increase the size of the Supreme Court to counterbalance the conservative tilt created by the Gorsuch and Kavanaugh confirmations.

Kamala Harris’s post-debate rise in the polls appears to be losing momentum as we head into the second debate.

The Mueller hearing has weakened the political argument for impeachment. Democrats need to proceed with caution, and concentrate on winning in 2020 rather than removing the President from office prematurely.

President Trump attacked four Democratic Congresswomen for engaging in exactly the same rhetoric that the President himself has over the years.

The President’s approval is up and disapproval down after the latest incidents.

The President’s decision to base his re-election campaign on racism and stoking racial and ethnic divisions is quite simple to explain.

House Democrats rejected an effort by a member of the progressive wing of the party to force an impeachment inquiry against the President.

What happened to “building a lasting relationship within the African American community”?

Later today, the President is expected to take some form of ‘Executive Action’ in an effort to get a citizenship question on the 2020 Census.

While significantly more Americans disapprove of his job performance than approve, recovery is still possible.

The next Prime Minster of the United Kingdom will be chosen by a very small segment of both the population and the Conservative Party. Does that make sense?

Nearly half the country thinks he’s not a terrible President.

Anchorage had record high temperatures yesterday.

June’s jobs report brought in stronger than expected numbers but the fact that these numbers have not been consistent all year makes one wonder what the state of the economy really is.