Outside the Beltway

While the rest of us have been distracted by a hurricane in Texas, Robert Mueller’s investigation continues moving forward.

Donald Trump’s Treasury Secretary won’t commit to putting Harriet Tubman on the $20 bill.

August’s Jobs Report came in below expectations.

President Trump remains obsessed with the Russian investigation and continues to try to shut it down.

Trump’s legislative accomplishments have been anemic at best.

Donald Trump is threatening to shut the government down if Congress doesn’t pay for the wall that Mexico was supposed to pay for.

They may both be Republicans, but the relationship between the President and the Senate Majority Leader is bad and seems to be getting worse.

Democrats and “Never Trump”ers shouldn’t count their chickens before they’re hatched.

Based on initial reports, Trump’s Afghanistan policy looks a lot like what we’ve seen for the past sixteen years.

Three new polls show Trump’s job approval down significantly in the three states that put him over the top in the Electoral College last year.

A bit of wishful thinking in the wake of Steve Bannon’s ouster.

Another one bites the dust.

A big change appears to have taken place in American cable news viewing habits.

On Trump’s anger.

Some Presidents knew how to respond to racism and hatred. The current President doesn’t.

And some comments on Trumps’ anemic rhetoric.

Donald Trump’s core supporters in the Republican Party remain intensely loyal, and that seems unlikely to change.

Plus some comparisons of Trump/Obama and Trump/Bill Clinton.

The President has endorsed a bill that would cut legal immigration in half.

Trump and his underlings continue to lie, even about the most trivial of matters.

It’s not the time away from the White House that matters, it’s the hypocrisy.

In another major change announced via Twitter, late yesterday President Trump announced he’d hired a new Chief of Staff, but changes at the staff level aren’t going to fix what’s really wrong with the Trump Administration.

According to initial estimates, the economy grew at faster pace in the second quarter than at the beginning of the year, but it was hardly anything to write home about.

Robert Mueller seems to be getting closer to the President, and the Administration is responding by seeking to undermine his investigation.

Is there anyone in the Trump Administration or family who hasn’t held undisclosed meetings with Russians?

With the Administration’s six-month point approaching, Donald Trump continues to lag in the polls.

Six months of revelations about ties to Russia is taking its toll on White House staffers.

When the Kremlin Says ‘Adoptions,’ It Means ‘Sanctions’

The June Jobs Report was significantly better than what we saw in May but on the whole not different from what we’ve seen for the last three years or so.

Justice Kennedy is telling prospective law clerks for the term that beings in October 2018 that he is considering retiring at the end of the term that begins this October.

Being a public servant, especially serving as President or in the White House in general, means you are going to be criticized, lampooned, ridiculed, and even “attacked.”

Donald Trump is the most unpopular incoming President in more than eighty years.

Donald Trump’s golf courses are displaying something that literally is fake news.

Twitter is, in some way, the most vacuous and simplistic of all social media, and it also appears to be the President’s main intellectual outlet.

Donald Trump’s Presidency is young, but he’s already on track to become the biggest liar ever to occupy the Oval Office.

Forget the imperial presidency. Welcome to the indolent presidency.

The political party formed by French President Emmanuel Macron just about a year ago scored big wins in yesterday’s first round of legislative elections.

In addition to everything else on its plate, Congress will have to revisit raising the debt ceiling again sometime this summer.

President Trump says he’d be willing to testify under oath in response to former F.B.I Director Comey’s accusations. That would be a mistake for several reasons.

James Comey’s testimony today wasn’t the end of the Russia investigation. Indeed, we are only at the beginning of the beginning, and it’s likely to get worse for the President before it gets better.

Democrat Phil Murphy and Republican Kim Guadagno will face off against each other to succeed Chris Christie in New Jersey.

President Trump took to Twitter again this morning and promptly shot himself in the foot.

The polls are looking worse and worse for Donald Trump.

President Trump is reportedly considering at least partly reversing one of the great foreign policy successes of the Obama Presidency.

Reports indicate that President Trump is preparing to fulfill a campaign promise and withdraw the U.S. from the accord on climate change reached in Paris in 2015.

The Trump White House loses ts first major staffer, and more are likely to come.

Some thoughts on presidential interruptions.

The Republican candidate in today’s Special Election in Montana has been charged with assaulting a reporter.

President Trump’s speech on Islam was a change of tone. However, as critics noted, it was short on substance and is unlikely to accomplish anything.