Outside the Beltway

After nearly a year, Trump’s trade policies are having their inevitable negative impact inside the United States.

For the second time this year, a Federal Court has struck down a state law designed to punish businesses that engage in a boycott aimed at Israel.

President Trump got his revised version of NAFTA, but Canadians are less positive about the United States than they have been in at least twenty years.

The State of Texas is arguing in Court that a school district can force a student to stand for the Pledge of Allegiance. This is a blatant violation of the First Amendment.

Washington said farewell to John McCain today in a service that both remembered his spirit and his heroism, and stands as a sharp rebuke to what politics has been reduced to in America today.

In his final words to his fellow Senators, and to his fellow Americans, Senator John McCain left a legacy, and a challenge.

Throughout the War On Terror, John McCain stood out as a strong moral voice against the use of torture against prisoners. For that he deserves the thanks of a grateful nation.

President Trump reportedly vetoed a plan to issue a statement lauding Senator John McCain after he died on Saturday.

Democrats have pulled the trigger and essentially eliminated the power of superdelegates except in the unlikely event that a nominating convention goes to a second ballot.

One moment at a campaign rally in October 2008 defines better than anything else what American politics lost when John McCain passed away.

Senator John McCain has died at the age of 81,

Sad news about a Senate stalwart who has been fighting an aggressive form of cancer for more than a year.

A Federal Judge in Washington State has, at least temporarily, blocked the release of files that would allow anyone to make a 3-D printed gun. The First Amendment seems to clearly indicate that this ruling is wrong.

I have heard Trump supporters offer the following rationale for Trump’s tarris, “It is a bargaining strategy.” Then they sit back and smirk, and tell me, “Trump really wants zero tariffs, but to get these other countries to come to the table he has to get their attention. And once he has softened them up, they’ll be willing to reduce their tariffs.”

Even if all he gets out of the Helsinki Summit is a handshake and a photograph, Vladimir Putin has already won.

The situation isn’t as awful as portrayed by the AP—but it’s still pretty bad.

What was once a rare symbol of national mourning has become so commonplace as to be meaningless.

Once touted as an example of his deal-making prowess, Harley-Davidson sent a rebuke to President Trump by announcing it was moving some manufacturing to Europe to counteract the impact of his ongoing trade war.

Not surprisingly, Canadians aren’t too thrilled with Donald Trump these days.

The Vietnam memorial helped heal a gaping wound. What purpose will this one serve?

One outcome of the SIngapore Summit includes a purported agreement to work on repatriating American remains from the Korean War. This is a good thing, but the President couldn’t resist adding obvious embellishment.

Thanks to Donald Trump, the happiest man in the world right now is Vladimir Putin.

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.

Echoing the Obama Administration, the Trump Administration is arguing that it did not need Congressional authorization to attack Syria earlier this year.

Clashes between the US and Chinese navies in the South China Sea have intensified.

As expected, Gina Haspel was confirmed as C.I.A. Director yesterday despite her controversial record when it comes to torture.

61 percent of Americans have a favorable impression of a man who left office a failed president.

The White House isn’t apologizing for an aide who made a joke about John McCain’s most likely terminal illness. That shouldn’t be surprising.

When it comes to the Trump White House, the fish rots from the head down.

Another data point demonstrating that a distinguished military career doesn’t preclude being an awful human being or a crackpot.

John McCain continues to bravely battle an aggressive form of brain cancer, but he’s already made clear that he doesn’t want the 45th President of the United States at his funeral.

Unable to get his way with the legislature, New York’s governor is taking a provocative step.

The United States can’t do any good in Syria, but we can do a lot of bad.

Without Congressional authorization, any attack on Syria would be illegal, but don’t expect Congress to do anything about it.

A plurality of Americans aged 18 to 34 have no idea how many people were killed, what Auschwitz was, or how Hitler came to power.

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.

Absent changes in policy, the nation’s most hallowed military cemetery will run out of space in two decades.

South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham says war against North Korea would be worth it. Ignoring the fact that it would result in casualties unlike anything America has seen since the Vietnam War.

Continuing a long-standard tradition, the Trump Administration claims it doesn’t need to get legal authorization to keep American troops in Syria.

Despite what his own intelligence chiefs are saying, President Trump still does not believe that Russia interfered in the 2016 election.

A Federal Judge In Kansas has blocked enforcement of a state law barring anyone who does business with the state from engaging in a boycott of Israel.

Of course Donald Trump wants a military parade, it would be consistent with his delusions of grandeur.

John Kelly continues to throw away the good name he earned in decades of service as a Marine to serve the agenda of President Trump.

With the Administration set to commit the United States to a forever war in Syria, it’s time for Congress to act.

Just over one year after President Trump’s foolish and ill-informed decision to withdraw from the Trans-Pacific Partnership Canada has stepped in to rescue the deal.

Most Americans are unlikely to remember John Anderson, but he was a harbinger of things to come.

Jim Nabors, who became famous as Gomer Pyle on The Andy Griffith Show and Gomer Pyle USMC, has died at the age of  87.

There’s growing evidence that Donald Trump’s tweets are hurting him but his aides have basically given up trying to control his Twitter habit.