Outside the Beltway

The United States is apparently looking to Libya as a guide for upcoming talks with North Korea. The DPRK most likely sees the fate of that nation and its leader as a warning.

General (Retired) Michael Hayden has some harsh, and concerning, criticisms of the Trump administration.

Instead of attending the White House Correspondents Association Dinner last night, Donald Trump took his show on the road where he continued his long-standing attacks on the press. Unfortunately, it’s a message that resonates with his supporters.

As has often been the case, the White House Correspondent’s Dinner is arousing some degree of controversy, mostly because of the comedy or lack thereof.

The tragedy of Bill Cosby lies not in the downfall of a man once known as “America’s Dad,” but in the fact that a man who was, in fact, a sexual predator was allowed to evade justice for far too long.

Marking the end of a long fall from grace, the man once known as “America’s Dad” has been found guilty on three counts of sexual assault.

The Donald Trump presidency has some eerie parallels with his run on “The Apprentice.”

The Commission on College Basketball recommended an end to the one-and-done rule and other major reforms.

Rudy Giuliani is joining President Trump’s legal team but it’s unclear what he actually brings to that team.

If we’re going to have a death penalty, he was its poster boy.

The first real poll of the Senate race in Texas shows Ted Cruz with a much thinner lead than might be expected in a state like Texas. That doesn’t mean we should expect a Democratic upset there, though.

Ring Lardner said he would “rather write for the New Yorker at five cents a word than for Cosmopolitan at one dollar a word.” A century later, he’d be lucky to get those rates.

Barbara Bush, only the second woman in history to be the wife and mother of a U.S. President, has died at the age of 92.

Sean Hannity was Michael Cohen’s “secret client,” but it’s not clear that should matter to anyone.

The parents of two of the victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre are suing Alex Jones for falsely accusing them of lying about the deaths of their children.

Membership has its privileges.

The star of “Night Court” and “Dave’s World” is gone.

President Trump undercut his own Ambassador to the United Nations today by blocking the imposition of new sanctions on Russia.

An attempt at defining the conversation.

Once again, President Trump’s foreign policy tweeting is causing problems.

Mark Zuckerberg’s second day before Congress was somewhat more contentious than the first, but at the end of the day it’s still unclear that more regulation is the answer to the issues raised by recent Facebook “scandals.”

President Trump took to Twitter this morning and decided poke a stick in the eye of the Russian bear.

Controversies involving Jimmy Kimmel and “The Simpsons” highlight a perennial question.

Late last week, Hawaii became the seventh state and eighth major American jurisdiction to legalize assisted suicide.

Governor Rick Scott has entered the race to challenge Bill Nelson in Florida, creating what is likely to be one of the most closely watched races of the year.

Bill Cosby heads back to court for a retrial on the sexual assault allegations against him but it’s not going to be the same as the first.

A woman who was fired after a photograph of her giving the middle finger to President Trump’s motorcade went viral is suing her former employer. She doesn’t have much of a case.

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

News anchors at dozens of local stations owned by conservative-leaning Sinclair Broadcast Group were recently required to read a script mandated by corporate headquarters, and it’s leading to some bad media coverage for Sinclair.

In a bizarre Twitter rant, President Trump declared a DACA deal “dead,” blaming Democrats when it’s clear that it’s largely his fault.

As suspected, Cynthia Nixon is not shaping up to be much of a challenge for Andrew Cuomo.

Joe Arpaio is saying he might reopen his “investigation” into former President Obama’s birthplace if he’s elected Senator.

After several days of speculation, it was confirmed that the leaders of North Korea and China had met in Beijing. This was meant as much for external consumption as it was the relationship between the two nations.

Stormy Daniels spoke to 60 Minutes last night about her relationship with Donald Trump and the agreement that was made on the eve of the 2016 election to keep her quiet.

Organizing protests was the easy part. The hard part for those who would seek to expand gun regulations is yet to come.

Personal attacks on teenagers whose friends were murdered is a strategy sure to backfire.

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.

President Trump is not being bold on drugs. Instead, he is just recycling old, failed idea.

Fred Kaplan fails to make the case for buying an ultra-high definition TV right now.

The guy from Real People? He’s rich.

Top White House staffers were preparing to fire several troublesome figures at once when the President suddenly upended the plan.

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

A famous name enters the race to challenge Andrew Cuomo, but it’s unlikely she’ll have much of an impact.

Joseph E. diGenova has touted the theory that rogue FBI elements have tried to frame Trump in the Russia probe.

The head of the House Intelligence Committee’s Russia investigation admitted yesterday that the committee was never focused on any potential evidence of collusion.

To nobody’s surprise, Vladimir Putin has won re-election to another term as Russia’s President.

If you’re tired of the restraint being shown by this President, you may be in luck.

A contest with no serious challenger will make him the longest-serving Russian leader since Stalin.

Not unexpectedly, Russia has retaliated for Great Britain’s retaliation for Russia’s apparent assassination attempt on British history.

The FBI’s former deputy director was shamefully fired late Friday night, after which President Trump gloated on Twitter.