Outside the Beltway

Last week, the Polish President floated the idea of a permanent U.S. military base in Poland. It’s a bad idea no matter how you look at it.

A new report from The New York Times is likely to cause President Trump’s war on the Justice Department to heat up.

Donald Trump’s trade war is helping China expand its diplomatic influence.

Donald Trump has been in office just over 600 days, and he’s proven beyond any doubt that he doesn’t care if what he says is the truth or not.

Another day, another plea agreement in the Mueller investigation. This one could prove to be problematic for the President.

President Trump has made no secret of the fact that he is displeased with the performance of Jeff Sessions, but he could find it hard to replace him.

New evidence indicates that the same Russian backed bots and trolls that sought to influence the 2016 election are now attempting to exploit the social divisions raised by the N.F.L. players kneeling during the National Anthem.

With a new trial set to start in Washington at the end of the month, reports are circulating that President Trump’s former campaign manager is looking to cut a plea deal.

Seventeen years ago, America was thrust into a war that seemingly has no end.

Former President Obama took on his successor in his first major political speeches since leaving office.

Trump has an autocrat’s view of justice.

A significant advance for LGBT rights in the world’s most populous democracy.

President Trump wants Jeff Sessions and the Justice Department to investigate the anonymous Op-Ed published earlier this week even though there doesn’t appear to have been a crime committed.

Former Trump campaign aide George Papadopoulos received a very generous sentence in return for his guilty plea.

Donald Trump is a bad, inept, and potentially dangerous President. That doesn’t mean that a ‘soft coup’ inside the White House is the answer to the problem he presents to our democratic republic.

British authorities have charged two members of Russian military intelligence in connection with a poisoning attack on British attack.

Day One of questions for Judge Brett Kavanaugh went about as you’d expect.

In an extraordinary anonymous Op-Ed, a senior White House official describes a White House in chaos.

Donald Trump spent part of Labor Day engaged in yet another unhinged attack on his own Justice Department.

A new book by legendary Washington reporter Bob Woodward appears to contain explosive revelations about the President and the operation of the White House.

The military regime in Myanmar has sentenced two reporters to prison for reporting on the repression of the Rohingya Muslims.

The target is not just on illegal immigrants.

Washington said farewell to John McCain today in a service that both remembered his spirit and his heroism, and stands as a sharp rebuke to what politics has been reduced to in America today.

As the midterms get closer, the public’s perception of the President’s job performance is getting worse.

President Trump is alienating our allies and making friends with dictators, and the world is responding as you might expect they would.

Senator John McCain has died at the age of 81,

Recently indicted Congressman Duncan Hunter Jr. is blaming his apparently estranged wife and the so-called “Deep State” for the fact that he’s charged with embezzling a quarter million dollars from his campaign.

Sad news about a Senate stalwart who has been fighting an aggressive form of cancer for more than a year.

Max Boot proclaims “Trump is an illegitimate president whose election is tainted by fraud.”

Robert Mueller and his legal team get their first victories in court.

The President’s former lawyer and “fixer” is pleading guilty to a number of charges, including apparent campaign finance law violations related to the Stormy Daniels payment.

Once again, the President has thrown the Rule of Law under the bus.

Orwell lives.

The Virginia case against Paul Manafort went to the jury on Thursday, and now everyone waits for their verdict.

The former CIA Director has been stripped of his access to classified information after repeatedly criticizing the President.

In what appears to be a move based purely on vindictiveness, President Trump has revoked the security clearance of former CIA Director John Brennan.

Russia’s real goal in interfering in American elections may not have anything to do with favoring one candidate over another.

There’s been a noticeable drop in foreign tourism to the United States since Donald Trump became President.

The Trump Administration has taken the latest step in a process that began in May with the withdrawal from the JCPOA. Where it takes us is anybody’s guess, but the probability of something going wrong is quite high.

The noose around the Trump Administration just keeps getting tighter.

A Special Election tomorrow in suburban Columbus, Ohio could tell us a lot about where the midterm elections might be headed.

A basic explanation for Trump’s behavior towards Russia.

The frequency and ease with which this President lies is, to say the least, alarming.

President Trump says he wants to talk to Special Counsel Robert Mueller, but his own lawyers clearly don’t trust him enough to allow that to go forward.

Another morning, and another unhinged Twitter attack on the Mueller investigation by a President who claims the entire investigation is a “hoax” and “Fake News.”

Yet another sign that the Singapore Summit didn’t really accomplish much of anything.

A Federal Judge in Maryland ruled last week that a lawsuit against the President based on a rather obscure provision of the Constitution could go forward.

Senator Corker provided a pretty damning run-down last week.

The man who knows all of Donald Trump’s financial secrets has been called to testify before the Grand Jury investigating Trump lawyer Michael Cohen.

Special Counsel Robert Mueller is reportedly looking at the President’s Twitter feed as part of his ongoing investigation.