Outside the Beltway

A new report indicates that Trump campaign officials were seeking contact with Russian officials earlier than we thought.

Authorities are being second-guessed over their handling of Saturday’s protests. Virginia gun laws are the more obvious problem.

Donald Trump has had harsher things to say about Rosie O’Donnell than he did about the people responsible for yesterday’s violence. That says something about him.

My apologies to Bob Dreyfuss and Rolling Stone.

Donald Trump’s core supporters in the Republican Party remain intensely loyal, and that seems unlikely to change.

Things are getting far more complicated on the Korean Peninsula. Diplomacy isn’t working, and a military option would most likely lead to disaster.

On the special election for US Senate in Alabama

Big developments in the Russia investigation that could start making President Trump deeply uncomfortable.

The President has endorsed a bill that would cut legal immigration in half.

President Trump was apparently directly involved in drafting a false statement regarding his son’s meeting with a lawyer tied to the Russian government.

It’s not the time away from the White House that matters, it’s the hypocrisy.

President Trump delivered a wholly inappropriate political speech to the Boy Scout Jamboree, but that should surprise nobody.

Donald Trump is unlikely to ever be a popular President, but that may not matter.

More evidence the president does not understand his job.

Robert Mueller seems to be getting closer to the President, and the Administration is responding by seeking to undermine his investigation.

A good choice for an important position.

What looks like it will be the Senate GOP’s last effort on the issue of health care reform died less than a day after being put on the table.

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

New polling indicates that the Affordable Care Act has gained in popularity with the American public, while Republican reform efforts are viewed overwhelmingly negatively.

With the Administration’s six-month point approaching, Donald Trump continues to lag in the polls.

Senate Republicans have introduced their latest version of a plan to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act.

A report states that the meeting was set up on the predicate of information on the Clinton campaign.

Senate Republicans are back home and hearing from their constituents on health care reform. It’s not going well for them.

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.

The GOP’s effort to ‘repeal and replace’ Obamacare faces another roadblock, namely the fact that the American public doesn’t support their replacement plan.

Donald Trump’s golf courses are displaying something that literally is fake news.

A big setback for Republican efforts to ‘repeal and replace’ Obamacare.

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

In one of the most closely watched Special Elections in American history, the outcome turned out to be not entirely surprising.

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

A van struck a crowd outside a London mosque late last night in an attack by a man who said he wanted to kill Muslims.

A hung jury in the Cosby sexual assault case results in a mistrial.

Special Counsel Robert Mueller has a Trump family member in the cross hairs.

Special Counsel Robert Mueller has expanded his investigation to include the allegation that President Trump may have attempted to obstruct justice

Republicans and Democrats have picked their candidates for 2017’s Governor’s race, but the biggest name is likely to be one not on the ballot, Donald Trump.

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.

Maryland and the District of Columbia are suing President Trump based on alleged violations of two provisions of the Constitution that have never been litigated before.

He could provide insight into the relationship between Trump campaign officials and Russian officials and the circumstances behind the firing of former F.B.I. Director James Comey.