Outside the Beltway

Members of Congress and the Senate are once again facing down angry constituents, but it’s unclear whether it will translate into anything substantial in 2018.

President Trump has actually made a good pick for National Security Adviser. As with the rest of his foreign policy team, though, the question is if he’ll listen to him.

There are two sides in this war between Trump and the media, but only one of them is the right side.

Chaos inside the Trump Administration is causing people to turn down lucrative positions.

For seventy-seven minutes yesterday, President Trump held forth in a press conference that confirmed the most dire predictions about what he’d be like as President.

The story about the Trump campaign’s ties to Russia didn’t start with Michael Flynn, and it isn’t going to end with his resignation.

An unsurprising ‘resignation’ from the shortest-serving National Security Adviser in history.

Could National Security Adviser Michael Flynn be the first to go under Trump?

The President throws the US under the bus to defend Putin.

In a closer than normal vote for the position, Rex Tillerson has been confirmed as Secretary of State.

The first full day of Donald Trump’s Presidency consisted largely of obsessions with irrelevant facts and outright lies.

A movement motivated by hurt and fear turned into a political force eight years ago. Can another follow suit?

A potentially controversial commutation from President Obama today.

The answer is pretty straight-forward.

What is the deal with the love-fest for Julian Assange?

Ambassador Karlov is mostly likely not a modern day Archduke Franz Ferdinand.

The situation in the Middle East just potentially became much more complicated.

Republicans sure have changed their mind about Vladimir Putin.

A controversial member of George W. Bush’s foreign policy team is up for a post in Donald Trump’s State Department.

The head of the biggest energy company in the world is reportedly Donald Trump’s pick for Secretary of State.

New information raises serious questions about the integrity of the 2016 elections, and about Donald Trump and his supporters.

The players are almost completely set for France’s 2017 Presidential elections, and the choice seems likely to come down to center-right candidate Francois Fillon and Marine Le Pen, France’s Donald Trump.

For Donald Trump, it appears that ignorance is bliss.

Political change coming to Germany? Or more of the same.

A controversial retired General has been tapped to be President-Elect Trump’s top White House foreign policy voice.

A surprising name is emerging as the likely pick for the nation’s top diplomatic position.

Even if you’re not sure who you should vote for, it’s obvious who you shouldn’t vote for.

A drought that began when Theodore Roosevelt was President has finally come to an end.

According to reports, Vice-President Biden is on a Clinton campaign short list for Secretary of State.

For better or worse, the third Presidential debate will largely be remembered for one thing.

More evidence that Trump would be a terrible president.

Trump was alternately somnambulant, petulant, stalking, incoherent, and dangerous.

A new report concludes that Malaysia Air Flight 17 was brought down by a missile brought into Ukraine from Russia.

The United States and Russia have reached an agreement to end fighting in Syria, but it seems unlikely to succeed given that it doesn’t involve the parties actually doing the fighting.

North Korea continues to advance its nuclear program but it’s unclear what anyone can do about it.

Donald Trump’s admiration and praise for the dictatorial leader of Russia should be sufficient reason to disqualify him from being President of the United States.

North Korea conducts yet another nuclear weapons test, and it’s unclear what anyone can do to stop them.

Libertarian Party Presidential candidate Gary Johnson doesn’t get much national press attention, and it doesn’t help when he flubs an answer like he did this morning.

Donald Trump’s strange relationship with reality continues to come to light,

Hillary Clinton appears to be doing very well in the wake of the first round of post-convention polls.

Donald Trump suggests Russia engage in espionage to help his Presidential campaign.0

Florida Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman-Schultz is out as head of the Democratic National Committee after the release of a trove of embarrassing emails.

President Obama will leave office as the first two term President who presided over eight years of war. It didn’t start with him and it won’t end with him.

A massive attack hits Istanbul’s airport.

Turkey has issued a formal apology to Russia over the November 2015 downing of a Russian jet that had briefly strayed into Turkish airspace.

By a narrow margin, British voters have chosen to send their nation, themselves, and indeed all of Europe into uncharted waters.