Outside the Beltway

The Trump administration’s approach to immigrant children is a serious test of our national morality.

President Trump and his supporters are blaming the policy of separating parents and children at the border on Democrats. This is, simply put, a lie.

In a new interview, the President says that he doesn’t believe that N.F.L. players who kneel during the National Anthem have a real issue.

A Trump Administration policy announced in April has resulted in roughly 2,000 children being taken from their parents at the border.

Donald Trump said he wishes people would ‘sit up and pay attention’ to him the way they do in North Korea when Kim Jong Un speaks.

Donald Trump’s former Campaign Manager was sent to jail, a move that likely increases the pressure on him to cooperate with Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation.

President Trump is at the center of controversy again after video emerged of him returning the salute of a North Korean General.

There was some degree of humor in the Dept. of Justice’s Inspector General’s report.

The Department of Justice’s Inspector General found that former F.B.I. Director James Comey was ‘insubordinate’ in regard to the Clinton email investigation, but found no evidence of political bias at the Bureau.

The Attorney General of New York has filed a Complaint against President Trump and several members of his family alleging widespread fraud in the operation of Trump’s charitable Foundation.

The GOP and Donald Trump are indistinguishable now. But it’s not clear what that means.

President Trump continues to dismiss concerns about Kim Jong Un’s brutality, and to lavish praise on a man who has a considerable amount of blood on his hands.

The Trump Administration’s new legal position on coverage for people with pre-existing conditions could pose political problems in the fall.

President Trump is touting his Photo Op Summit as the end of the North Korean nuclear threat. Reality is quite different.

Not surprisingly, Canadians aren’t very happy about President Trump’s attacks on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

A seemingly innocuous change to a newspaper style guide has some significant implications.

Democrats have adopted a new rule requiring future candidates for President to certify that they are Democrats, but it seems largely unenforceable.

European alliance and Russian goals edition.

Hurricane Trump hit the G-7 this weekend, and the damage it left behind will take years to clean up.

Trump’s withdrawal of his invitation to the Philadelphia Eagles is just another example of his populistic nationalism. (And it isn’t healthy).

Donald Trump hinted that he’s considering a pardon for Muhammad Ali, but Ali doesn’t need a pardon.

Anthony Bourdain was a renowned chef, writer, television host, and storyteller. He also suffered from demons that ultimately caught up with him.

As he headed to the G-7 Summit, President Trump threw our ostensible allies another curve.

Most Americans disagree with Trump on the N.F.L. National Anthem protests, but Republicans are behind him.

The plan to put Harriet Tubman on the $20 bill appears to be running up against President Trump’s bizarre affinity for Andrew Jackson.

After three years of ethical and criminal charges, Bob Menendez got a bit of a slap on the wrist from New Jersey Democrats.

Senators hoping for a long summer recess have had their hopes dashed.

President Trump has unblocked Twitter users, but at the same time his lawyers are appealing the ruling that he can’t block Twitter users.

The new American Ambassador to Germany is making what clearly seem to be inappropriate statements about domestic politics in Europe.

President Trump waded back into the National Anthem debate when he revoked the invitation of the Philadelphia Eagles to come to the White House today.

Based on a strict reading of the Constitution, a sitting President probably does have the power to pardon himself. That doesn’t mean he should be allowed to get away with it without consequence.

President Trump’s attorneys have put forward a shockingly expansive view of the powers of the President.

In the Trump Era, the White House Press Briefing is becoming shorter and less informative.

Donald Trump continues to claim that Mexico will pay for his still non-existent border wall. Mexico says otherwise.

The President teased the Jobs Report an hour before it was officially released. This was both a violation of Federal law, and yet another example of this President violating long-established norms governing how politicians are supposed to act.

Donald Trump may or may not be racist himself, but he has most certainly exploited and helped widen racial divisions ever since bursting on the political scene in 2015.

The leading candidate for the GOP nomination for Tennessee’s next Governor has a unique explanation for gun violence.

The rules of American journalism haven’t caught up with the reality of this Presidency.

President Trump is claiming that he didn’t fire former F.B.I. Director James Comey because of the Russia investigation, even though he admitted the exact opposite just weeks after it happened.

In an early morning Tweetstorm, President Trump said he would not have hired Jeff Sessions if he knew he’d recuse himself from the Russia investigation.

The overwhelming success of the abortion referendum in Ireland is leading to calls for similar action in Northern Ireland, but it won’t be easy.

Hours after she unleashed a racist Twitter tirade, Roseanne Barr has had her show canceled by ABC. Of course, ABC knew who it was doing business with well before today.

The President’s constant attacks on the news media are meant for a single purpose, to undermine even accurate reporting about wrongdoing in his Administration.

With the President’s “Spygate” allegations standing largely discredited, his attorney and at the moment chief spokesperson Rudy Giuliani admits that the entire conspiracy theory was created to discredit the Mueller investigation.

Donald Trump chose to mark Memorial Day by talking about himself.

The 41st President has been hospitalized in Maine.

An inordinate amount of cruelty is being perpetrated in the name of border security. It’s only partly the fault of the current President.

This President lies on a daily basis. It’s time to start calling him what he is.

American companies are struggling to comply with the EU’s new privacy regulation, with many outlets choosing to simply block access abroad.