Outside the Beltway

A nonpartisan official is refusing to do her duty.

Should we question the timing?

A fundamental building block of our system makes it nearly impossible to fix.

Preying on the fears of old white people is good business.

The pandemic is highlighting an international shame.

The newspaper of record radically altered a column and then misrepresented it.

Despite denials and dismissals, it is clear that being an impeached President is getting under Trump’s skin.

October’s jobs report came back better than expected but hardly something to cheer.

She’s been fibbing about how she left a teaching job nearly half a century ago.

Much like it did during the McCarthy Era, the Republican Party has to decide what side of history it wishes to be on. The right side, or the wrong side.

A familiar name has entered the race for the Democratic Senate nomination in Massachusetts.

Former Republican Congressman and Governor Mark Sanford is running for President.

Another day, another Trump temper tantrum.

On the Sunday shows today, one of the President’s top aides insisted that the Administration is seriously looking at the idea of buying Greenland even though it isn’t for sale.

This timeline is just so weird.

Donald Trump lies with the ease that the rest of us tie our shoes. Will that fact have an impact on voters?

Once again, President Trump can’t help but make something meant to recognize real American heroes all about himself.

Dozens of well-off students from the Chicago area are getting college subsidies.

Democrats clashed, to some degree, in last night’s inaugural debate of the 2020 season but they clearly agreed far more than they disagreed.

It burns.

Another woman has accused President Trump of sexually assaulting her some 20 years ago.

President Trump’s opening rally of the 2020 campaign sounded an awful lot like a rally from 2016

South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg laid out his foreign policy platform in a speech this week. It’s certainly an improvement over the current President.

Texas has become the latest state to eliminate red-light cameras amid increasing evidence that they are largely counterproductive.

Donald Trump continues to lie at a record pace. Does anyone care?

His colum in WaPo isn’t very good.

There are many things to dislike about the Democratic socialist from Vermont. Hypocrisy isn’t among them.

John Walker Lindh, the so-called “American Taliban,” has been released from prison but the war in which he was captured goes merrily along.

President Trump’s stonewalling strategy suffered another legal setback in New York City yesterday.

The city by the Bay is rapidly transforming. Should we lament that?

One of the most well-known architects of the modern era has passed away.

The New York Times has obtained about ten years worth of Donald Trump’s tax returns from the late eighties to early nineties. They don’t tell us much that we didn’t already know.

Donald Trump’s tariffs are hurting the American economy, American consumers, and American businesses.

As the Friday deadline for trade talks with China approaches, President Trump is threatening even more tariffs.

As I have noted before: party trumps institutional pride. The Barr testimony is just another example.

Republicans have aborted President Trump’s lofty plan for a $2 trillion infrastructure deal just days after it was conceived.

Jobs Growth in April was much higher than expected, seemingly putting to rest for now fears that the economy might be slowing.

Newly discovered evidence shows that foreign governments have expanded their leasing of space from at least one Trump-owned office building in New York City.

Democrats in South Carolina seem to think they have a shot at beating Lindsey Graham in 2020. I wouldn’t be so sure of that.

For the second time in a week, reports indicate that the President intervened to get a family member a security clearance.

President Trump personally overrode the objections of security officials, the White House Counsel, and the Chief of Staff to make sure his son-in-law got a security clearance.

Michael Cohen pulled back the curtain and revealed much about the true nature of Donald Trump yesterday. It’s not a pretty picture.

Michael Cohen, the President’s former lawyer and “fixer,” is set to deliver several bombshells in his testimony before Congress today.

President Trump and Kim Jong Un hold their second summit in Hanoi later this week, but it’s unlikely anything significant will happen.

There’s only one solution to the D.C. statehood issue. It’s called retrocession.

As the shutdown continues, the President’s political position is becoming weaker. He doesn’t seem to care, though.

A leading conservative makes a truly bizarre defense of the President.

A new blockbuster report implicates the President in no less than five Federal crimes.

The scandal-plagued Secretary of the Interior is leaving office at the end of the year.

The President’s former lawyer and “fixer” Michael Cohen has been sentenced to three years in prison for his role in assisting the President in various scandals and cover-ups.