Outside the Beltway

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

New reports of Trump’s business ties to Russia are raising eyebrows.

President Trump’s attempts to interfere in the administration of justice go beyond the Russia investigation.

President Trump continues his war on one of the most important guardians of American democracy.

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 gave a campaign-style speech in Phoenix last night and reminded us of everything that’s wrong with him.

A new report indicates that Trump campaign officials were seeking contact with Russian officials earlier than we thought.

White House insiders have renewed efforts to oust Presidential adviser Steve Bannon. Can they succeed?

Donald Trump kowtows to Vladimir Putin yet again.

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

The Mueller investigation continues.

Things are getting far more complicated on the Korean Peninsula. Diplomacy isn’t working, and a military option would most likely lead to disaster.

After 200 days, President Trump’s job approval numbers are hitting new lows.

Big developments in the Russia investigation that could start making President Trump deeply uncomfortable.

Vice-President Pence is advocating the admission of Georgia into NATO. That would be a bad idea.

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

President Trump was apparently directly involved in drafting a false statement regarding his son’s meeting with a lawyer tied to the Russian government.

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.

Another escalation on the Korean peninsula.

The Joint Chiefs of Staff are making clear that President Trump’s tweets are not official policy. At least not yet.

President Trump’s weeklong effort to undermine his own Attorney General continues.

Reports are indicating that Donald Trump may be looking to replace Attorney General Jeff Sessions with Rudy Giuliani.

The pardon issue could be a serious inflection point.

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

A good choice for an important position.

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.

The revelations about Donald Trump Jr.’s June 2016 meeting with someone represented as being a Russian government official just keep getting worse.

A report states that the meeting was set up on the predicate of information on the Clinton campaign.

Add another example of an undisclosed Russia-linked meeting and Team Trump.

More provocation from Pyongyang.

More than twenty states are resisting requests for data from a ‘voter integrity’ Commission built on President Trump’s lie that millions of people voted illegally in the 2016 election.

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

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.

Special Counsel Robert Mueller has a Trump family member in the cross hairs.

Donald Trump thinks the media doesn’t like his Twitter habit. In reality, they love it.

Special Counsel Robert Mueller has expanded his investigation to include the allegation that President Trump may have attempted to obstruct justice

Donald Trump’s first Cabinet Meeting looked like something out of a Maoist propaganda video.