Outside the Beltway

Donald Trump spends an inordinate amount of time watching television and regurgitating what he sees on Twitter. That’s not healthy.

November’s Jobs Report was stronger than expected, but there are several caveats to keep in mind.

Donald Trump’s Jerusalem decision reveals yet again that he is an appallingly bad deal maker.

A foolish, and potentially dangerous, decision by President Trump.

The current temporary spending measure reached by Congress in September expires on Friday, and Republicans haven’t come up with a solution yet.

For a guy who considers the Russia investigation “Fake News,” President Trump sure is doing a lot to try to stop it.

The Washington Post exposes another James O’Keefe fraud.

With time running out in the year, it’s looking increasingly unlikely that the Senate GOP will be able to meet its deadlines on passing a tax reform bill.

After nearly four decades in power, Robert Mugabe has stepped down after a military coup. What happens next is another, more complicated, question.

New York Senator Kristen Gillibrand says Bill Clinton should have resigned over his affair with Monica Lewinsky. Raising the question of just how stringently we should apply the standards of today to the events of the past.

Donald Trump has been President 300 days and the record reveals no real accomplishments and increased dissatisfaction with the job he’s doing.

President Trump returns home from an Asian trip that wasn’t exactly impressive.

Republicans have a Donald Trump problem, and they can’t run away from it.

The Jobs Market bounces back in October, but the numbers are far from impressive.

More bad polling news for President Trump.

Donald Trump has apparently made the American public more supportive of players who kneel for the National Anthem.

President Trump remains the most unpopular newly elected President since the end of the Second World War, and there’s no sign that will change.

Another day, another Trump lie.

Without mentioning his successor by name, former President Bush delivered a stinging rebuke to Trump and Trumpism.

Now Donald Trump is using the death of American soldiers to tell lies about his predecessor.

The President’s job approval numbers remain at historic lows, while a growing number of Americans say that the country is headed in the wrong direction.

The Bergdahl case comes to an end.

After initially signaling support for a bill banning ‘bump stocks,’ Republicans in Congress now appear to be hoping someone else will act for them.

At least for now, Republicans seem to be giving up on repealing and replacing the PPACA. That’s not going to make the base happy.

A very weak jobs report thanks mostly to the impact of two Category 5 hurricanes.

Tensions continue to rise between the White House and Foggy Bottom.

While Puerto Rico suffers, President Trump is spending the weekend at his New Jersey golf resort attacking people on the ground who are actually doing something.

What was essentially the final effort to ‘repeal and replace’ the Affordable Care Act is officially dead.

A new poll shows that Donald Trump could end up having an impact on the race for Virginia Governor.

With his sentencing, the strange, strange saga of Anthony Weiner has come to an end. What a strange and wild ride it has been.

A new poll shows, unsurprisingly, that the vast majority of Americans see Donald Trump as a divider rather than a uniter

President Trump’s job approval has improved slightly, but the numbers remain historically low for a newly elected President.

In a marked departure from previous American Presidents, Donald Trump delivered a highly belligerent speech to the U.N. General Assembly.

Some more interesting post-election commentary from Hillary Clinton.

Former White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer poked fun at himself on last night’s Emmy broadcast, and the political pundits are all in pearl-clutching mode because of it.

The Harvard Kennedy School pulled its Visiting Fellowship from the controversial figure after predictable outcry.

The Senate appears ready to get rid of another procedural move designed to block judicial nominees.

Sixteen Senators are backing a single-payer system. Another forty-four to go.

80% of GOP voters approve of Trump. This explains GOP behavior in large measure.

Republicans on Capitol Hill and elsewhere were gambling when they lined up behind Donald Trump. So far, they’ve lost.

Steve Bannon may be out of the White House, but his efforts to continue pushing President Trump, and the Republican Party, even further to the populist far-right continues.

For the second time this year, there are rumors that Mitt Romney could run for Senator from Utah if Orrin Hatch decides to retire.

Hillary Clinton delivers the most obvious news ever.

No, the deal this week is not Trump becoming an independent.

As expected, a group of Democratic states is suing the Trump Administration over the decision to end the DACA program.

Donald Trump made a deal with Democrats on spending and the debt ceiling, but it was an exceedingly bad one.

Trump isn’t going to win any regional popularity awards in LA.

John Kelly has only been White House Chief of Staff for a month, but it’s already apparent that he isn’t likely to last very long in that position.