Outside the Beltway

Iowa Congressman Steve King is causing controversy yet again with his comments in support of far-right Dutch politician Geert Wilders.

Trump appears to undervaluing existing bureaucracies listening more to hacks and ideologues.

Can the GOP govern? Do they want to or know how to? (Does it matter?).

@POTUS claims his phones were tapped by the Obama administration. At this point the evidence appears to be talk radio.

Attorney General Jeff Sessions apparently misled Senators when asked about his contact with Russian officials.

The announcement of a new Muslim travel ban Executive Order has been delayed once again.

The Trump Administration is continuing, and indeed expanding, its war on a free press.

Members of Congress and the Senate are once again facing down angry constituents, but it’s unclear whether it will translate into anything substantial in 2018.

After a year long experiment, Playboy is bringing nudity back.

Could Donald Trump’s comments about Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl on the campaign trail lead to the case against Bergdahl being dismissed? A military judge will have to decide.

An unsurprising ‘resignation’ from the shortest-serving National Security Adviser in history.

Several former candidates for President are emerging as potential candidates for Senate.

Could National Security Adviser Michael Flynn be the first to go under Trump?

Stephen Miller said something very stupid on “Meet The Press” this morning.

At Congressional town halls across the country, there are signs of what could turn into a movement that would cause real headaches for the GOP in future elections.

There were fireworks on the floor of the Senate last night, but it was really just politics as usual.

Senate Democrats are set to almost unanimously oppose virtually all of the Trump Cabinet nominees yet to be voted on.

Today in “Alternative Facts.”

With a relatively smooth announcement, Donald Trump has named a solid and qualified conservative who will likely be confirmed to the nation’s highest court.

Steve Bannon is in. The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs and Director of National Intelligence are out. Sort of.

The first full day of Donald Trump’s Presidency consisted largely of obsessions with irrelevant facts and outright lies.

A movement motivated by hurt and fear turned into a political force eight years ago. Can another follow suit?

While vigilance is called for, America will survive Donald Trump just as it has survived everything else we’ve faced since the nation’s founding.

A majority of the Supreme Court appears to be skeptical of a Federal law barring trademark protection for “offensive” names and slogans.

A long-standing staple of American culture will soon be no more.

On the eve of the 115th Congress, House Republicans voted to gut a key office charged with investigating Congressional ethics.

Ambassador Karlov is mostly likely not a modern day Archduke Franz Ferdinand.

Delegating the morning briefing to advisors isn’t actually that unusual.

Congressional term limits are a good idea, but they are only a partial solution at best and may not be the best solution to the problems facing our political system.

New information raises serious questions about the integrity of the 2016 elections, and about Donald Trump and his supporters.

Three of the top four national security positions in Donald Trump’s Cabinet will be filled by retired Generals. This isn’t necessarily a good thing.

Donald Trump says he will ‘leave his business,’ but is providing very few details and continuing to leave the impression that he will enter office with more conflicts of interest than any previous President in American history.

Donald Trump resurrects an old debate and desecrates the Constitution in the process.

Just 1,436 days until Election Day 2020!

Now Donald Trump is alleging that the 2016 Election was tainted by ‘illegal voting,’ even though he won!

One of the Cold War era’s last dictators has finally died.

No, the EC is not going to elect Clinton.

Trump backs away from yet another campaign promise.

A Federal Judge has dismissed a lawsuit that tried to make an end-run around the Senate and put Merrick Garland on the Supreme Court.

The incoming president’s business interests are a yuuuge problem.

Reports of the demise of the Democratic Party have been greatly exaggerated.