Outside the Beltway

President Trump is at the center of controversy again after video emerged of him returning the salute of a North Korean General.

Virginia Republicans took a hard-right turn in yesterday’s primary. This is likely to benefit the Democrats.

Hurricane Trump hit the G-7 this weekend, and the damage it left behind will take years to clean up.

For the second time in three years, we have a Triple Crown winner.

Donald Trump hinted that he’s considering a pardon for Muhammad Ali, but Ali doesn’t need a pardon.

The plan to put Harriet Tubman on the $20 bill appears to be running up against President Trump’s bizarre affinity for Andrew Jackson.

More than a decade ago, Donald Trump revealed one of his secrets to success. Exhaust your enemies. It explains much of what has happened since he took office.

President Trump’s attorneys have put forward a shockingly expansive view of the powers of the President.

A new book reveals President Obama’s initial reaction to Donald Trump’s election, and provides some detail about their first meeting.

May’s jobs report was stronger than the previous two months, but not entirely great.

In the age of Trump, morality is optional for conservatives.

An important message from Josh Marshall.

The requirement that the President be a “natural born citizen” is a historical anachronism that has outlived its usefulness or necessity.

The former President and First Lady have struck a first-of-its-kind agreement to produce a wide variety of content for Netflix.

Trump suffered another court loss yesterday that opens him up to some potentially embarrassing questions.

Robert Mueller has reportedly concluded that he cannot indict a sitting President. This is not a vindication of Trump, and merely upholds a conclusion that the Justice Department reached four decades ago.

With the end of the Supreme Court term approaching, speculation about a Kennedy retirement is ramping up again.

Celebrations and a deadly day in the Middle East.

Does the administration know what it is doing?

A majority of Americans want the President to stay in the nuclear deal with Iran. That’s unlikely to matter to him.

Rudy Giuliani is basically now suggesting that his client would be willing to set off a Constitutional crisis that would make Watergate seem like a picnic.

A blast from the past as Oliver North, who was once at the center of a major Washington scandal, is named President of the National Rifle Association.

They hired Israeli Private Investigators to dig up dirt on former Obama officials, including Ben Rhodes and Colin Kahl.

To paraphrase the late Dennis Green, he is who we thought he was. 

The unemployment rate hit a point unseen since Bill Clinton was President in April, but jobs and wage growth remain tepid at best.

Stormy Daniels is suing the President for defamation after he accused her of lying about a threat made to her seven years ago.

It’s been 441 days since Donald Trump held a full-fledged Presidential press conference. Does anyone care?

Remember Donald Trump’s strange doctor? Well, things just got stranger;.

Ford, GM, and Chrysler are all moving almost exclusively to trucks, SUVs, and crossovers.

French President Emmanuel Macron predicts, correctly, that President Trump will pull out of the nuclear deal with Iran for the worst possible reasons. This will be a disaster for America’s national interests.

The Donald Trump presidency has some eerie parallels with his run on “The Apprentice.”

With the accusations mounting, the nomination of Ronny Jackson to be Secretary of Veterans Affairs is becoming more and more imperiled.

French President Emmanuel Macron is in the U.S. hoping to lobby President Trump to keep the United States in the nuclear deal with Iran. He’s got his work cut out for him.

The transformation is complete. The GOP is now the party of Donald Trump. If you’re sticking around and not speaking out against what the President represents, you’re part of the problem, not part of the solution.

Hillary Clinton isn’t running for anything in 2018, but that isn’t stopping Republicans from running against her.

Republicans are planning on pushing judicial nominees through the Senate in case they lose control in November. Meanwhile, the possibility of a Supreme Court vacancy raises the stakes.

Hoping that Donald Trump might not run for reelection? Don’t get your hopes up.

Based on his recent behavior, it’s clear that the President is worried about how loyal Michael Cohen might actually turn out to be.

Mitt Romney stumbled in his bid to become Utah’s next Senator but he’s still likely to win the nomination anyway.

An essay from earlier in the year by Jacob T. Levy underscores some of the points I recently tried to make about democratic norms in the current era.

Cuba has a new President and he isn’t named Castro, but that doesn’t mean we’re going to see significant change in the near future.

The campaign-agnostic political science models predicted a toss-up in 2016 and again in 2020.

Running for and being President of the United States has been very lucrative for the family business.

The Editorial Board of the Newspaper of Record urges Congressional Republicans to steady themselves for a constitutional crisis.

Top positions in the State Department are vacant, and there’s only one person to blame for that.

President Trump’s job approval numbers remain historically low.

In the wake of the latest attack on Syria, some of the President’s strongest supporters seem shocked to discover that the unprincipled egomaniac they supported is, in fact, an unprincipled egomaniac.

White House service is usually a ticket to high-paying jobs in Washington. Not so for the current administration.

There is no obvious strategy and even the expressed rationale makes no sense.