Outside the Beltway

The Singapore Summit meeting between President Trump and Kim Jong Un was about as substance-less as most analysts anticipated it would be.

Both President Trump and Ivanka Trump are profiting handsomely from their time in the White House.

In Husted v. A. Philip Randolph Institute, Samuel Alito authored a 5-4 opinion ruling that removing voters from the rolls after four years is perfectly legal.

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

Former Trump Campaign Director Paul Manafort has been hit with a new round of charges.

Political columnist and commentator Charles Krauthammer has weeks to live.

Donald Trump’s approach to international trade has nothing to with economics and everything to do with politics and the culture war he loves to provoke.

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

Frank Carlucci, who served as President Reagan’s last Secretary of Defense, has died at 87.

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.

It may be my favorite Star Wars film since ‘Empire Strikes Back.’

Among the stumbling blocks to a DPRK nuclear summit: who’s going to pay for Kim Jong Un’s hotel room?

Just over a week after he called it off, President Trump announced this afternoon that the June 12th Summit in Singapore was back on.

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

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 Republican Governor of Missouri is resigning amid growing accusations related to an extramarital affair, blackmail, and sexual assault.

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.

South Korea’s President is saying that Kim Jong Un has renewed his supposed commitment to ‘denuclearization,’ but it isn’t at all clear what that means.

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

Alan Bean, the fourth man to walk on the Moon, has died at the age of 86

Just as they did three years ago when they legalized same-sex marriage, Irish voters turned out in record numbers to repeal the nation’s ban on abortion.

The numbers suggests that the administration isn’t too interested in talking.

Three Executive Orders signed ahead of the Memorial Day holiday has government employees scrambling.

A Federal Judge in New York has ruled that President Trump cannot block users from reading his tweets.

Seemingly out of the blue, the June 12th summit between President Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has been canceled by the United States.

We all have to grow up sometime.

President Trump has been tweeting up a storm since Sunday, raising a question. Should we view his Tweets as the rantings of a cranky old man, or as something more serious?

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo delivered a bombastic speech on Iran yesterday that reveals just how empty and dangerous the Trump Administration’s policy toward Iran actually is.

When “reasonable suspicion” and free speech collide.

In an election that pretty much everyone agrees was illegitimate, Nicolás Maduro has won a second term as Venezuela’s President.

New York attorney Aaron Schlossberg found himself on the receiving end of an Internet firestorm this week. His case raises some interesting questions about Internet vigilantism.

President Trump continues his unhinged, and unsupported by facts, war on Amazon and its owner Jeff Bezos by pressuring an independent agency to raise shipping rates.

In the wake of yesterday’s killing of eight in a Texas high school, WaPo’s Philip Bump provides a chilling statistic.

The Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo has reached a major urban center.

The Senate Judiciary Committee has released a treasure trove of documents related to the June 2016 meeting between Trump campaign officials and a Russian lawyer, and they raise far more questions than they answer.

The inventor of New Journalism has died of unknown causes.

The Leader of the Free World is, sadly, enabling atrocities.

Don’t look for a Trump agenda for the rest of the year. It doesn’t exist.

The Trump White House has leaked more than any in recent memory. Some of the leakers have explained what motivates them.

The number of Americans professing no religious affiliation is on the rise. This will have some interesting cultural and political implications.

The Postal Service is losing billions of dollars, but not for the reasons the President claims.

The National Security Advisor has broken up the team that manages global epidemics for no apparent reason.

Mike Pence’s obsequiousness to his master knows no limits.

For Donald Trump and his supporters, “Fake News” means any news that doesn’t shower enough praise on him.

The church sponsors 20 percent of the youth organization’s membership.

Whether Don Blankenship wins or loses in West Virginia, his success is yet another example of how Donald Trump has changed the GOP for the worse.