Outside the Beltway

An empty column with a seed of one good point buried in a bunch of nothing.

Welcome to Donald Trump’s Republican Party.

The President’s initial reaction to the release of the whistleblower complaint is about what you’d expect from a petty dictator.

A blast from the past: two days before the Zelensky call.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson suffered a huge and historic loss in the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom.

Obvious advice is obvious.

What we know for sure.

Cory Booker’s campaign is basically admitting they’re at the end of the road.

New York City’s Mayor ends a campaign that was going nowhere.

The latest allegations about exactly what the President may have been trying to do in a phone call with a foreign leader that caught the attention of a whistleblower are becoming more serious by the day.

A Harvard law professor makes my case better than I did.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, already facing a rough re-election battle is now dealing with a blackface controversy.

President Trump has named his fourth National Security Adviser in less than three years.

We’re unlikely to see anyone like her again.

As the Saudis continue to evaluate the impact of the weekend attack on a major oil facility, the Trump Administration tones down the anti-Iran rhetoric just a bit.

While the world continues to evaluate the impact of Saturday’s attack on a Saudi oil facility, tensions in the Persian Gulf are increasing.

Is social media making it harder for Democrats to nominate a winning candidate?

This evening ten Democratic candidates for President, including all of the front runners, appear on stage together for the third debate of the 2020 election cycle.

Faced with an election next week, Israel’s Prime Minister is pushing a settlement plan that would be an utter disaster.

Boris Johnson suffers a setback in court in Scotland, including a specific finding that he misled Queen Elizabeth II when he sought her permission to suspend Parliament.

President Trump took to Twitter late this morning to fire his third National Security Adviser.

Democrat Jon Ossoff has thrown his hat in the ring to challenge David Perdue for Georgia’s Senate seat in 2020.

The Air Force’s use of Trump hotels predates his presidency—but is still highly problematic.

There’s the truth, and then there’s Donald Trump’s version of the truth. The two are seldom related.

Hurricanes and corrupting truth.

President Trump announced late yesterday that he had called off secret meetings with the Taliban. The fact that they were even going to happen reveals yet again what’s wrong with his foreign policy.

One of the giants of the progressive blogosphere is going away.

Robert Mugabe led a nation to independence only to become a dictator who destroyed its economy, has died at the age of 95.

A wedding venue in Mississippi is citing religious beliefs in support of its decision not to allow an interracial couple to utilize their facilities.

More of the wit and wisdom of the 45th President of the United States.

Alabama Governor Kay Ivey is the latest politician to apologize for donning blackface while she was in college.

Kirsten Gillibrand has dropped out of a Presidential race few people realized she was in.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has taken a step that virtually guarantees that the United Kingdom will go ahead with a hard Brexit at the end of October.

Iowa Congressman Steve King finds himself low on campaign cash and with virtually no support from his party.

Controversial former Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, who was voted out of office in 2016 after serving six terms in office, is running to get his old job back.

A new poll shows Joe Biden dropping significantly among national Democrats to the point where he is effectively tied with Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren.

Joe Walsh, a former Tea Party stalwart who served in Congress nine years ago, has thrown his hat in the ring against President Trump for the 2020 GOP Presidential Nomination.

Tom Brady tried to trademark the nickname “Tom Terrific.” It didn’t go so well.

Donald Trump isn’t just admiring dictators now, he’s acting like one.

And what a week it has been.

President Trump’s hand-picked Federal Reserve Chairman is stating the blindingly obvious about the ongoing trade war, so of course the President labeled him an enemy.

Even when it comes from his favorite propaganda network, Donald Trump doesn’t like bad news.

President Trump doubled down on his tirade against Jewish American Democrats from yesterday with some even more offensive comments.

Sean Spicer will appear on the upcoming season of Dancing With The Stars

Another day, another Trump temper tantrum.

President Trump just tossed a hand grenade into the firestorm that American politics.

Mark Halperin, the former MSNBC political analyst who was accused of misconduct during the height of the #MeToo Movement, is trying to make a comeback with a new book.

Prime Minister Netanyahu’s actions toward two Democratic Congresswomen,seemingly at the bidding of President Trump, is the latest example of the growing partisan divide over policy toward Israel.

The Trump Administration and 2020 campaign are clearly worried about the state of the economy. They should be, because it could be the one thing that dooms his re-election chances.