Outside the Beltway

Oligarchy and populism don’t mix.

Speaking of inexperienced cronies…

Cabinet appointments edition.

His former National Security Advisor is not impressed.

It’s not been a great few days for J. D. Vance

Trump’s second term would be much worse than his first.

A purge of the professional staff for, well, reasons.

CNN gave the former Liar in Chief a huuuge platform.

The ball is now in Merrick Garland’s court.

Is this how the cult ends?

The corrupt leader is back for a sixth term.

He remains free pending appeal.

And a reminder about Bannon’s wall grift.

The former President and his supporters are crying “weaponization of the justice system.”

Republicans killed their parents and demanding mercy for being orphaned.

Democrats want the DOJ to act more quickly.

A ginned up controversy regarding a border nature reserve has escalated.

Yet again, Mike Lindell show what a fraud he is.

Brought to you by the son of Moon.

143 at the 11th hour.

Does online performance logically devolve into rage and violence?

That thing that happens when you sow the wind with conspiracy theories.

So, it turns out that Fox News wasn’t really all that fair or balanced.

The best people.

A sober assessment of President Trump’s plan to get the country running again.

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

The fifth Democratic debate brought some candidate clashes, but hardly the no-holds-barred type of event you might expect for this late in the pre-primary process.

Jeff Sessions demonstrates just how obsequious he’s willing to be to get his Senate seat back.

Jeff Sessions entered the race for the GOP nomination for Senate in Alabama by heaping obsequious and pathetic praise on a man who had spent two years insulting him publicly and privately

David Koch, one-half of the Koch Brothers and the head of a wide-ranging business empire who also went on to have a huge impact on politics and cultural philanthropy, has died at the age of 79.

Lock them up.

Free expression sometimes enables horrible crimes. How does a free society deal with that tension?

This time, the rumors about John Kelly leaving appear to be true.

There’s yet another rumor that White House Chief of Staff John Kelly could be on the way out.

After one year at a job that has to be among the most frustrating in Washington, John Kelly has agreed to stay on through the 2020 election.

A powerful political network is distancing itself from the Trump-dominated Republican Party.

John Kelly is nearing the end of his first year as White House Chief of Staff, and it’s becoming apparent that his mission to bring order to a disordered White House has failed.

Steve Bannon says he doesn’t believe the President has ever told a lie.

The Trump White House has leaked more than any in recent memory. Some of the leakers have explained what motivates them.

Dan Drezner notes some challenges on this topic, and I add some of my own thoughts.

After eight months in office, the pressures on Chief of Staff John Kelly continue to mount under a President who cannot be controlled and whose behavior will not change.

Old-fashioned notions of journalistic neutrality are chafing young reporters in the Age of Trump.

Within hours after being fired as Secretary of Veterans Affairs, David Shulkin was fighting back.

Supporters of Roy Moore tried to bribe the attorney for a woman accusing the former Senate candidate of sexual assault when she was just fourteen years old into repudiating his client.

Donald Trump may be getting ready to act as his own Chief of Staff. That would be a huge mistake.

A new report confirms that the White House has indeed required staffers to sign non-disclosure agreements that are clearly not enforceable.

Breitbart News appears to be fading in terms of readership, but the alt-right politics it represents is not going away.