Outside the Beltway

The Washington Nationals won their first World Series in franchise history, and the first for Washington, D.C. since Calvin Coolidge was President.

The economy grew an anemic 1.9% in the third quarter according to the first estimate of the state of the economy over the summer.

A current defense of Trump raises an ancient political question.

A Federal District Court Judge gave the House of Representatives, and the nation, a big win yesterday.

The President is tired of all the fake news.

A custody case out of Texas raises issues about how to react to and treat a child who identifies as a gender different from their biological sex.

A top U.S. diplomat involved in Ukraine policy confirmed the existence of a quid pro quo regarding U.S aid to Ukraine.

New polling is showing increased public support for President Trump’s impeachment and removal

So far at least, Elizabeth Warren is not doing a good job of articulating her foreign policy positions. That needs to change if she’s going to be a serious candidate.

American negotiators are claiming a ceasefire in northern Syria. The Turks, Syrians, and Russians are the winners, the Kurds are the losers, and we look like schmucks.

As he reaches his 1,000th day in office, Trump’s lies pile up at an astronomical rate.

Elizabeth Warren took most of the fire during last night’s fourth Democratic debate, which will likely go a long way toward winnowing down a crowded field.

The third part of a long, but connected, set of thoughts.

Elizabeth Warren’s comments at an LGBT rights forum late last week were cheered by the audience, but some Democrats are raising concerns about their impact on the General Election.

Is tipping a social obligation or an incentive/punishment related to quality of service?

With an eye on the trade war and the 2020 election, President Trump is increasing subsidies and mandates for corn-based ethanol.

President Trump loses yet another Cabinet Secretary.

This year’s Nobel Peace Prize Laureate comes from a part of the world that most people almost never think about.

New reports indicated that the President’s contacts with Ukraine’s President set off alarm bells inside the White House.

Trump makes a particularly dumb comment about our alliance with Syrian Kurds.

Just days after President Trump agreed to remove American forces from the scene, Turkish forces are entering northern Syria and Kurdish forces say they ar ready for war.

Republicans face a choice. Do they put their country first, or do they put their President first?

The White House is doubling down on its illegitimate stonewalling of valid Congressional document requests.

North Korea appears to be pulling back from any future negotiations over its nuclear weapons and ballistic missile programs, leaving the Trump Administration’s Korea policy in shambles.

Public opinion on impeachment has shifted rapidly to the point where a majority of Americans support an impeachment inquiry and support for removal is growing as well.

The United States is withdrawing its small force from Northern Syria, clearing the way for a Turkish invasion that will likely
aim to wipeout the Kurdish forces in the region.

The evidence piles up.

Trying to nail down some basics about a very complicated situation.

A somewhat disappointing jobs report for September.

The norms of social discourse are rapidly changing in the #MeToo era.

The past week has demonstrated more notably than any other that this President is not well.

It’s been one year since Jamal Khashoggi walked into the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, never to be seen in public again. We are no closer to justice in his case than we were a year ago.

It’s not just Ukraine.

Not surprisingly, President Trump told Russian officials early on that he didn’t care if Russia interfered in the 2016 election.

The impending impeachment of the President is likely to reveal Republicans on Capitol Hill to be the cowards we already knew they were.

Not surprisingly, there are other phone call transcripts and other communications that further complicate Trump’s position.

Fox News Channel in general, and Fox And Friends in particular, have become nothing but a propaganda network for the White House and the President.

Just over four years ago.

House Democrats are reportedly looking at an impeachment process narrowly focused on the President’s efforts to obtain a quid pro quo from the President of Ukraine.

President Trump and the Republican Party have spent the last three years lying about the Federal budget deficit and the economy.

For the first time, it’s conceivable that Republicans will turn against the President.

Working as the President’s private attorney, Rudy Giuliani has spent months working behind the scenes to pressure Ukraine to investigate Joe Biden’s son.

The criteria for the November and December debate will make it much harder for some Democrats to get on the national stage. That isn’t a bad thing.

Greg Sargent usefully lays out the basics.

The escalation has been rapid, dramatic, and warranted.

Just days before he repeatedly pressured the President of Ukraine to reopen a closed investigation involving the son of former Vice-President Biden, President Trump suspended military aid that had been authorized by Congress.

A bittersweet farewell to a newspaperman past his sell-by date.

President Trump is now admitting that he talked to the President of Ukraine about investigations of Joe Biden and his son but denies there was a quid pro quo.

The details about President Trump’s attempts to get Ukraine to investigate the son of one of his potential 2020 rivals keep getting worse for the President.

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.