Outside the Beltway

A newly released report leaked from inside the British Government notes that a hard Brexit is likely to be a disaster for the British economy.

It looks as if Boris Johnson’s government could be looking to call for a snap election to he held in the immediate aftermath of Brexit.

The Trump Administration has effectively declared economic warfare against the government of Nicolas Maduro. It won’t succeed, and will further victimize the already suffering Venezuelan people.

Adding to the political headaches for British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, a new poll shows majority support for Scottish independence in Scotland as the United Kingdom stumbles toward Brexit.

Boris Johnson has been in office for barely a week and he’s already facing an existential political crisis.

Dozens of well-off students from the Chicago area are getting college subsidies.

Boris Johnson won the fight for the leadership of Great Britain’s Conservative Party and will soon become the next British Prime Minister. That was the easy part.

The Trump Era is raising doubts about many things, including America’s most important alliance.

The fight to determine the leader of the Conservative Party, and the next British Prime Minister, is down to two candidates, but there’s one clear favorite.

Boris Johnson, who is currently the apparent frontrunner to succeed Theresa May as Conservative Party leader and British Prime Minister, has been ordered to appear in court on charges he lied during the 2016 Brexit campaign.

The pro-Brexit Brexit Party and the anti-Brexit Liberal Democrats both scored big wins in the United Kingdom’s E.U. elections, while the two major parties suffered big losses.

The American Civil Liberties Union has filed a lawsuit against Alabama’s patently unconstitutional abortion law.

Theresa May has announced she is stepping down as leader of the Conservative Party as of June 7th, starting a process that will have her out of Downing Street withing the next two months or so.

Gone are ‘climate change’ and ‘skeptic.’ In are ‘global heating’ and ‘denier.’

British Prime Minister Theresa May is seeking an extension on her promise to leave office at the same time that the political future of her Conservative Party becomes increasingly doubtful.

A new poll shows that a majority of the British public believes that the Brexit referendum was a bad idea. What that means for the future of Brexit is not at all clear.

Theresa May and the UK are quickly running out of options.

Gender bias is real. Most examples cited, though, aren’t.

Theresa May’s Brexit deal suffered the worst defeat in the modern history of the British Parliament, and nobody is sure what happens next.

A particularly appalling case of press censorship from Australia.

Theresa May is facing an unexpected challenge to her leadership even as she deals with trying to save a Brexit deal that nobody seems to like.

A filing in an unrelated case has apparently revealed the existence of a sealed indictment against Wikileaks founder Julian Assange.

Anti-Semitic violence has increased markedly over the past two years. So has the spread of far-right “anti-Globalist” conspiracy theories. This is not a coincidence.

In the wake of attempted bombing attacks on people he has criticized, the President is blaming the media for poisonous political rhetoric. He needs to look in the mirror.

President Trump is heaping praise on a Congressman who physically assaulted a reporter.

One of the people most responsible for the personal computer revolution has passed away at the far-too-young age of 65.

Some last minute dramatics in the Kavanaugh nomination fight, but it seems unlikely to impact the outcome of the nomination fight.

A new report says that the Trump Administration lobbied the National Park Service to edit photos of the crowd at President Trump’s Inauguration.

A significant advance for LGBT rights in the world’s most populous democracy.

A new study finds that a majority of the UK population—and of UK Parliamentary seats—support remaining in EU.

Venezuela’s President Nicolás Maduro survived an apparent, albeit amateurish, assassination attempt yesterday in what could be a sign of underlying instability in Venezuela.

With Brexit negotiations proceeding slowly, Theresa May loses her Brexit Minister and, more significantly, Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson, who is likely to become one of her leading critics inside the Conservative Party going forward.

They hired Israeli Private Investigators to dig up dirt on former Obama officials, including Ben Rhodes and Colin Kahl.

President Trump is talking about pulling American troops out of Syria, but his own White House is contradicting him.

Stephen Hawking possessed one of the greatest minds in history, but he will likely be most remembered for not letting a debilitating disease stop him from contributing to our understanding of the universe.

By all accounts, Gina Haspel is exceedingly well qualified to be the next C.I.A. Director, but she has a troubling past that the Senate will need to at least force her to answer questions about.

Ben Carson has expensive taste in office furniture.

Whatever goodwill may have existed between the Trump Administration and Steve Bannon appears to have evaporated.

Roy Moore wishes he was back in the days of cotton when families were close and African-Americans were enslaved.

A recent defection from North Korea gives us a peek inside the DPRK, and it’s not pretty.

It appears Russia attempted to influence last year’s Brexit vote in the same manner it did the 2016 election in the United States.

An overwhelming majority of Australians voted in favor of marriage equality in a non-binding referendum. The ball is now in the court of the nation’s legislature to move forward.

Authorities are being second-guessed over their handling of Saturday’s protests. Virginia gun laws are the more obvious problem.

Reports are indicating that President Trump may cancel or delay his trip to the United Kingdom due to planned protests.

Great Britain heads to the polls today.

Greg Gianforte assaulted a reporter. Now he’s going to Congress, but the outcome of the election really shouldn’t be a surprise.

The Republican candidate in today’s Special Election in Montana has been charged with assaulting a reporter.

French voters face a stark choice in the May 7th runoff for President. Hopefully, they’ll make the correct choice.

A political surprise in Great Britain as Prime Minister Theresa May calls a snap election for June 8th.