Outside the Beltway

Don’t hold your breath, but the Las Vegas shooting may actually prompt Congress to do something.

Tensions continue to rise between the White House and Foggy Bottom.

The Las Vegas shooting provides a good opportunity to enact a common sense gun control law that even Second Amendment advocates agree is called for.

While Puerto Rico suffers, President Trump is spending the weekend at his New Jersey golf resort attacking people on the ground who are actually doing something.

Republicans finally unveiled the outlines of a tax reform package yesterday, but the devil is in the still to be determined details.

Most Americans don’t support President Trump’s statements about the protests by N.F.L. players, but it’s just another example of him using hateful rhetoric to pander to his base.

Bob Corker, who has served in the Senate since winning election in 2006, announced yesterday that he would not stand for re-election.

The latest effort to ‘repeal and replace’ the Affordable Care Act appears to be dead.

More evidence of apparent Russian-backed efforts to interfere in the election.

President Trump’s job approval has improved slightly, but the numbers remain historically low for a newly elected President.

Yet another lawsuit against yet another controversial Trump Administration policy.

Some more interesting post-election commentary from Hillary Clinton.

Donald Trump went there again, and in the process reopened a wound that was starting to heal just a little bit.

Arguments advanced by those advocating a bill that would prevent Americans from participating in a boycott of Israel would not violate the First Amendment appear to be without merit.

The University of California has joined the list of Plaintiffs suing the Trump Administration over its decision to end DACA.

Despite pleas from conservative lawmakers, the Dept. of Justice will not reopen the case against former I.R.S. official Lois Lerner.

Once again, the National Football League sees its disciplinary and appeal process criticized by a Federal Judge.

The effort to ‘repeal and replace’ the Affordable Care Act is dead for now.

As expected, a group of Democratic states is suing the Trump Administration over the decision to end the DACA program.

Donald Trump made a deal with Democrats on spending and the debt ceiling, but it was an exceedingly bad one.

Several Democratic Attorneys General are threatening to sue the Trump Administration over the decision to end DACA, but their legal arguments appear to be especially weak.

A stupid comment about Hurricane Harvey cost a Florida professor his job.

The Trump Administration announced today that the program that provided deportation relief to nearly a million people brought to the United States as children would end unless Congress acts to save it.

We’re a long way away from the start of the 2020 election cycle, but Democrats are already maneuvering for support and money.

President Trump is threatening to end a program that has benefited at least 750,000 innocent people.

Trump isn’t going to win any regional popularity awards in LA.

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

August’s Jobs Report came in below expectations.

Winning was easy.  Legislating is hard.

President Trump’s effort to ban transgender Americans from serving in the military faces two new legal challenges.

It’s possible we haven’t heard the last from “Sheriff Joe.”

Texas suffers another legal setback in its effort to pass a Voter ID law.

President Trump’s reaction to the terror attack in Spain included an easily debunked lie about one of America’s most decorated Generals.

Just about two weeks after being announced, the President’s proposed ban on military service by transgender troops is being challenged in Court.

It’s not the time away from the White House that matters, it’s the hypocrisy.

Seven years of rhetoric on health care reform ended early this morning with a narrow vote on a bill that even Republicans didn’t really support.

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

Thoughts on the quality of our democracy.

Senate Republicans have introduced their latest version of a plan to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act.

The Senate is back from its recess, but no closer to a health care bill that has any realistic chance of passing.

Symbols shape our views of the past.