Outside the Beltway

A better than expected jobs report for February, but wage growth slowed for the month.

Netflix no longer offers President Frank Underwood. They’re lining up a replacement.

North Korea’s Dear Leader has baited the President of the United States into a trap.

Maryland’s legislature is considering a law that would require candidates for President to release their tax returns. It’s probably not Constitutional.

Adult film star Stormy Daniels has filed a lawsuit against the President, handing the already beleaguered White House yet another headache.

How ‘tainted’ must a funder be before a charity is obliged to reject the donation?

President Trump continues to deny the reality of Russian interference in the 2016 campaign, and he’s failing to act to make sure it doesn’t happen again.

Jonathan Bernstein thinks so and Chuck Todd and company outline a pretty strong case.

President Trump’s job approval hits a new low.

What is CPAC telling us about the contemporary conservative movement?

Mexico’s President canceled a visit to the United States for the second time since Donald Trump became President due to a continued disagreement over who will pay for Trump’s border wall.

The Russian government likely is quite pleased.

Donald Trump is now claiming that he had never denied that Russia interfered in the 2016 election. This is, of course, not true.

He’s tan. He’s rested. He’s old.

More security clearance problems for the White House.

To the surprise of nobody, Mitt Romney entered the race to succeed Orrin Hatch in the Senate. He’ll probably win.

Despite what his own intelligence chiefs are saying, President Trump still does not believe that Russia interfered in the 2016 election.

A Federal Court in New York City is set to hear argument tomorrow in a case that essentially argues that a large swath of Federal laws regarding marijuana are unconstitutional.

WaPo is overhyping things a bit.

While most of America slept, the government was shutdown thanks to some faux theatrics by a single Senator.

Last week, the President was calling for national unity. This week, he called political opponents “treasonous.”

With Republicans fully in control in Washington, their concerns about the budget deficit seem to have disappeared.

Dodge is facing controversy this morning for using the words of Martin Luther King Jr. in a Super Bowl commercial, but they’re not the only party who may have some questions to answer.

He’s tan. He’s rested. He’s ready. And, yes, he’s running.

The military options thus far presented for dealing with the DPRK have not been satisfying.

The first jobs report for 2018 beat expectation slightly, but the most positive signs came in the underlying data on wages.

Donald Trump lies about even the most trivial matters, How are we supposed to believe anything else he says?

Imagine a world where Hillary Clinton was President and stood accused of the same things Donald Trump and his campaign are currently under investigation for.

Do yourself a favor and skip the State Of The Union Address tonight. You won’t be missing anything important.

Andrew McCabe has stepped down as the FBI’s number two after months of attacks from President Trump.

Democratic norms are eroding.

And a little Electoral College for good measure.

And the evidence for obstruction of justice continues to mount.

President Trump called on Senate Republicans to eliminate the legislative filibuster to resolve the government shutdown. That’s not going to happen.

One year after his Inauguration, Donald Trump is the most unpopular new President since the invention of modern polling. However, his numbers are generally the same that they’ve been for some time now.

With just hours to go, it seems increasingly unlikely that the Senate can reach a deal to keep the government open.

Thanks to Donald Trump, public opinion around the world about the United States is at its lowest level in ten years.

Some thoughts about why the president’s remarks on immigration are so problematic.

Once again, President Trump opens his mouth and proceeds to insult a good part of the world while embarrassing the country.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg is making it clear she has no intention of leaving office before the 2020 election.

New reports indicate that the President is spending more and more time watching television and tweeting. That’s not what he was elected to do.

Knowing what you don’t know is important.

Donald Trumps’ tweets are the public statements of the President of the United States. This makes them noteworthy and often important.

Donald Trump’s latest Twitter rant is one of his most bizarre.

Contrary to expectations, jobs growth in December was relatively modest.

Who needs a First Amendment when you have lawyers willing to write threatening letters?

President Trump has shut down the commission he established to investigate unsupported claims of “voter fraud” in the 2016 election.

Whatever goodwill may have existed between the Trump Administration and Steve Bannon appears to have evaporated.

Donald Trump’s irrational tweets are once again focused on the leader of North Korea.