Outside the Beltway

Instead of attending the White House Correspondents Association Dinner, Donald Trump spent his Saturday attacking the press and the First Amendment.

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

There are two sides in this war between Trump and the media, but only one of them is the right side.

For seventy-seven minutes yesterday, President Trump held forth in a press conference that confirmed the most dire predictions about what he’d be like as President.

The Acting Attorney General was fired last night after announcing that she would refuse to defend President Trump’s Executive Order on immigration. As a result she was fired. Contrary to some arguments, this was not improper.

Trump backs away from yet another campaign promise.

A precursor to modern cable political news with an interesting past has passed away at the age of 89.

Donald Trump completed his unlikely journey to the Republican Presidential Nomination last night, but he the party he now leads remains divided.

Donald Trump continues his war on freedom of the press and reporters who cover him critically by barring The Washington Post from covering campaign events.

If you think this campaign has been awful, you ain’t seen nothin’ yet.

The business of the media is business. Business is not good.

To a large degree, the narrative you believe will govern the 2016 elections depend on which party you want to see win. But what’s the most likely outcome?

A man with one of the more unique political and personal resumes in recent memory has passed away.

After an eleven hour day on Capitol Hill, it was Hillary Clinton 1 House Benghazi Committee 0.

He definitely wouldn’t appreciate it, but in some sense you can thank Robert Bork for the Supreme Court’s opinion in Obergefell v. Hodges.

Republican Presidential candidate Mike Huckabee is continuing his absurd and dangerous war on the Supreme Court.

The first popularly elected African-American Senator, and the first African-American Senator to serve since the end of Reconstruction ended, has passed away.

That word may not mean what you think it means.

Politicians on both sides of the aisle like to tell people they’re just “average Americans,” but they’re lying and the American people seem to have figured out that they’re lying.

The passing of a true legend in American journalism.

Combining politics, an incessantly sensationalist news cycle, and a virus that scares a lot of people can’t end well.

Even with the passage of time, Watergate remains a singularly important event in American history

Americans have become deeply cynical about government. To some extent that is a good thing, but it’s reaching unhealthy levels.

One of Washington’s giants has passed away.

All of a sudden, the IRS announced it doesn’t have communications records it once claimed it did have.

For the fourth time in 30 years, an American President spoke at Normandy to honor a day of sacrifice and triumph.

Is the GOP headed down a road that leads to yet another doomed impeachment and trial?

Could the upcoming House Select Committee on Benghazi actually accomplish something useful?

If Hillary Clinton runs for President, questions surrounding the Benghazi attack will continue to dog her.

Who watches Sunday morning talk shows anymore?

Dinesh D’Souza has been indicted by a federal grand jury for being incredibly stupid.

Does a determination that NSA data collection practices are likely unconstitutional mean that Edward Snowden’s actions were, in some sense, justified?

Ron Fournier sees major similarities but ignores key differences.

For a year that seemed to start out so well, 2013 has been among the President’s worst of this five years he’s been in office.

Divided government is the worst political system ever, except for all the others.

So much for the most transparent Administration in history.

The pioneering journalist David Frost has died, aged 74 years.

One of the nation’s papers of record is changing owners for the first time in 80 years.

CNN reports that CIA is going to great lengths to keep operatives from talking about what happened at Benghazi.

The 10th anniversary of McCain-Feingold teaches a lesson we should already have learned.

Not only do we not know the whole story of the NSA data mining operation, key details of what thought we knew are wrong.