Outside the Beltway

After forty years in the Senate, Orrin Hatch announced that he will not seek re-election this year, thus opening the door for Mitt Romney to succeed him.

Late yesterday, a panel of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals issued a ruling striking down the latest version of Trump’s Muslim Travel Ban.

A Judge in New York has dismissed a lawsuit against the President based on two provisions of the Constitution that had never been ruled on before.

A new poll shows President Trump losing to a “Generic Democrat.” This poll means nothing.

Republicans passed their tax bill yesterday. What that means for the economy and the 2018 midterms is another question.

Report that President Trump considered withdrawing the Gorsuch nomination are another sign of his unhealthy obsession with pledges of loyalty from people who have no business giving it to him.

We’re looking to inject some new life into an old blog.

As he nears the one-year anniversary of his Inauguration, President Trump is getting increasingly bad reviews from the public.

Roy Moore’s loss in Alabama is bringing out into the open a civil war that has been going on for seven years now.

Donald Trump’s foreign policy has been erratic, illogical, and demonstrated a clear disdain for diplomacy.

A top Republican political analyst is warning that a Roy Moore victory in Alabama could pose real problems for Republicans in 2018. If it does, they’ll have nobody to blame but themselves.

Vladimir Putin will easily win re-election, but some are beginning to wonder who or what comes after him.

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.