Outside the Beltway

In the wake of the failure of the Hanoi Summit to reach any agreement at all, North Korea appears to be returning to old form.

The President continues to lie at an astounding rate that only seems to be getting worse. Does anyone care?

Early tomorrow morning, NASA and SpaceX will be testing a crucial part of America’s return to manned space flight.

Once again, President Trump proves that in the face of evil he is a coward and a disgrace.

President Trump personally overrode the objections of security officials, the White House Counsel, and the Chief of Staff to make sure his son-in-law got a security clearance.

The Supreme Court appears to be leaning toward letting a war memorial on public property stay in place.

The second summit between President Trump and Kim Jong Un ended early without any kind of agreement, signalling that no real progress has been made in talks between the two countries.

While the rest of the world looks at other events, tensions are flaring in a long-standing global hot spot.

The House of Representatives voted yesterday to block the President’s declaration of an “emergency” at the southern border. Now the matter goes to the Senate.

Based on his job approval numbers, President Trump could face an uphill battle in 2020.

While not subject to filibuster, it’s still subject to Presidential veto.

Donald Trump’s former lawyer begins three days of testimony before Congress today. By the time he’s done, he could end up doing real damage to the Trump Presidency.

A 2016 Trump Campaign staffer has filed a lawsuit against the President alleging that she was assaulted by Trump during the campaign.

A bipartisan group of foreign policy luminaries says there is no factual basis for President Trump’s claim.

And if you don’t know, now you know.

US policy is creating nonconstructive confrontation.

There’s only one solution to the D.C. statehood issue. It’s called retrocession.

A student in Florida has been charged with creating a disturbance after declining to recite the Pledge Of Allegiance in class.

After posting an image that clearly threatened a Federal Judge, Roger Stone walked out of court with a full gag order imposed on him. It could’ve gone a lot worse.

President Trump will get his Space force, but it won’t exactly be what he wanted when he first proposed that idea.

Twenty days after we learned about racist yearbook photos and everything that followed from it, there’s been no action against any of Virginia’s top political leaders. Don’t expect to see it either.

Robert Mueller appears to be winding down his investigation and getting ready to submit a report to the Attorney General.

The Supreme Court issued a ruling that places new limits on civil asset forfeiture by state and local government.

Polling continues to suggest that voters in Virginia are not nearly as concerned with the past behavior of state leaders as the political establishment might be.

Justice Clarence Thomas argues that a 55-year-old precedent should be overturned.

While I’m sympathetic to his plight, he has no case.

Gender bias is real. Most examples cited, though, aren’t.

The Trump Administration continues to drive a wedge between the United States and Europe, can it ever be repaired?

The Supreme Court will hear a case dealing with a challenge to the Commerce Department’s decision to put a question about citizenship on the 2020 Census.

In a rare display of assertiveness in the foreign policy arena, the House voted yesterday to bar U.S. assistance in Saudi Arabia’s genocidal war on Yemen.

When it comes to the shutdown and border wall showdown that started back in December, Donald Trump is the biggest loser.

Is 50 percent too high a take? Or the best deal in town?

Based on his appearance on CNN last night, Howard Schultz appears to be running a campaign about nothing.

It was only a matter of time before Trump’s rhetoric against the press would lead to something violent. Last night in El Paso, it happened.

A new poll shows that Virginians don’t necessarily believe their state leaders need to step aside in the wake of recent scandals.

The publisher of the National Enquirer is learning that it may have been a mistake to go to war against Jeff Bezos.

The longest-serving member of Congress in American history has passed away at the age of 92.

It’s reasonable and just to adjust our outrage based on the context of the time when incidents occurred.

The cases of Ralph Northam and Mark Herring raise a question of when, if ever, something we did in the past should follow us for the rest of our lives.

In his business career Donald Trump relied largely on fear and intimidation to get his way on business deals. As President, he’s finding that nobody is afraid of him.

A man somehow got elected governor without being very good at politics.

All three of the elected state officials in Virginia are under some kind of cloud, and nobody seems to know what’s going to happen next.

Elizabeth Warren still hasn’t figured out how to put the ‘Native American’ issue behind her.

The President’s second State of the Union began and ended with calls for unity. In between, it was filled with the divisive partisanship that has marked his Presidency.

New polling indicates that a solid majority of Democrats are more interested in finding a candidate who can beat Donald Trump in 2020 than they are with finding a candidate that agrees with them on specific issues.

President Trump’s detailed schedules reveal a man who doesn’t seem to spend a lot of time actually working.

Despite overwhelming calls for his resignation, Ralph Northam is refusing to step down as Governor of Virginia.

The American withdrawal from the I.N.F. Treaty gives Vladimir Putin exactly what he wants.

National and Virginia Democratic officials are calling on Virginia Governor Ralph Northam to resign over racist photos in his 1984 medical school yearbook.

There’s not really a good explanation for this, Governor Northam.