Outside the Beltway

With the defection of two more Senators, the latest effort to ‘repeal and replace’ the Affordable Care Act has gone down in flames.

Six months of revelations about ties to Russia is taking its toll on White House staffers.

Twitter users who have been blocked on the service by President Trump are suing him, claiming that their First Amendment rights have been violated.

The revelations about Donald Trump Jr.’s June 2016 meeting with someone represented as being a Russian government official just keep getting worse.

More provocation from Pyongyang.

More than twenty states are resisting requests for data from a ‘voter integrity’ Commission built on President Trump’s lie that millions of people voted illegally in the 2016 election.

The Senate left for vacation without a viable path forward on health care reform, and the road ahead seems treacherous and hard to navigate.

Sarah Palin has filed a defamation suit against The New York Times alleging defamation in an Editorial linking her to the January 2011 shooting of former Congresswoman Gabby Giffords. From the facts alleged, she appears to have a good case.

Once again, Donald Trump has taken to Twitter to attack women, embarrass himself, and embarrass the nation he purports to represent.

Once again, a bad CBO score is casting doubt on a Republican health care reform bill.

Twitter is, in some way, the most vacuous and simplistic of all social media, and it also appears to be the President’s main intellectual outlet.

Donald Trump’s Presidency is young, but he’s already on track to become the biggest liar ever to occupy the Oval Office.

Senate Republicans released their proposed health care plan this morning, but it could already be doomed.

The Supreme Court rules that states cannot bar convicted felons from using social media sites.

Donald Trump thinks the media doesn’t like his Twitter habit. In reality, they love it.

Forget the imperial presidency. Welcome to the indolent presidency.

A Congressman was shot, and a staffer and security detail members injured, at a practice session for tomorrow’s Congressional baseball game.

Donald Trump’s first Cabinet Meeting looked like something out of a Maoist propaganda video.

There are reports that the President is considering firing Special Counsel Bob Mueller. Are we headed for another Saturday Night Massacre?

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

President Trump says he’d be willing to testify under oath in response to former F.B.I Director Comey’s accusations. That would be a mistake for several reasons.

If Donald Trump blocks you on Twitter does that constitute a First Amendment violation? Two Twitter users say yes, but their argument is very weak.

Great Britain heads to the polls today.

A seemingly ‘safe choice’ for F.B. I. Director.

Congress is running out of time in its effort to “repeal and replace” the Affordable Care Act.

The Trump Administration will not try to stop former F.B.I. Director James Comey from testifying before the Senate Intelligence Committee on Thursday.

President Trump took to Twitter again this morning and promptly shot himself in the foot.

President Trump responded to last night’s terror attacks by taking to Twitter.

President Trump’s decision to withdraw from the Paris Climate Accords was neither the big win his supporters claim nor the disaster his critics fear.

Reports indicate that President Trump is preparing to fulfill a campaign promise and withdraw the U.S. from the accord on climate change reached in Paris in 2015.

The Trump White House loses ts first major staffer, and more are likely to come.

A legendary statesman has passed.

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.

Roger Moore, who played James Bond for a longer period and in more films than any other actor to date, has died at the age of 89.

A night of carnage and depravity in the United Kingdom.

President Trump’s speech on Islam was a change of tone. However, as critics noted, it was short on substance and is unlikely to accomplish anything.

Jeb Bush predicted that Donald Trump would preside over a “chaos Presidency,” and he was right.

The infamous former sheriff and current Trump Homeland Security official committed academic fraud.

The Russia investigation seems to be getting closer to the Oval Office.

After news of the appointment of a special counsel in the Russia investigation, Donald Trump’s persecution complex was on full display.