Outside the Beltway

Even a ceremony honoring American heroes wasn’t immune from President Trump’s habit of attacking racial minorities.

America has become involved in conflicts around the world, largely without the knowledge of the American people or the consent of their representatives, and it doesn’t appear that’s going to end anytime soon.

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s decision to call a snap election pays off big time.

Early on the morning of Sept. 26, 1983, Lieutenant Colonel Stanislav Petrov helped to prevent the outbreak of nuclear war.

More provocative action from North Korea, and another reminder that there are no easy answers to the problems represented by the Kim regime.

President Trump’s Afghanistan policy sounds awfully familiar, and it’s likely to lead to the same results.

A loss for the world of comedy.

The fundamental premise at the heart of the immigration bill that President Trump backed earlier this month has no merit whatsoever.

After 200 days, President Trump’s job approval numbers are hitting new lows.

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

Donald Trump’s Presidency is young, but he’s already on track to become the biggest liar ever to occupy the Oval Office.

Donald Trump’s first overseas trip went about as badly as you’d expect it would.

Economic growth in the first quarter wasn’t as bad as first estimated, but it still wasn’t very good. And the future is unclear at best.

Roger Moore, who played James Bond for a longer period and in more films than any other actor to date, has died at the age of 89.

Another day in Court for President Trump’s Muslim ban.

A political surprise in Great Britain as Prime Minister Theresa May calls a snap election for June 8th.

Donald Trump is historically unpopular for a new President. What does that mean when his first foreign policy crisis comes, as it inevitably will?

Two new polls show Donald Trump hitting new lows in the polls as we get closer to his 100th day in office.

Just about two months into office, Donald Trump’s job approval number are worse than any newly elected President since World War II.

More stepping back from free trade and the established global economic order.

The president’s skinny budget would eliminate most funding for science and the arts to fund more Defense spending.

Part One in a series of observations about health care and health insurance in light of the introduction of the House GOP’s health care plan.

Donald Trump’s job approval numbers are the lowest for any new President since World War II. That doesn’t bode well for his Administration’s future.

Technology continues to make more and more jobs unnecessary and irrelevant. And the consequences are going to be widespread.

In a closer than normal vote for the position, Rex Tillerson has been confirmed as Secretary of State.

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.

The economy grew strongly in the third quarter of the year, but it doesn’t seem likely to last.

Another attack in what has been a bloody 2016 for Europe.

Godspeed, John Glenn.

As things stand, Democrats will have a hard time winning back control in the Senate in 2018.

Are these the faces of Clinton voters? George P. Bush thinks so.

The last time the Cubs were in the World Series, World War II had just ended. Now, they have a chance to break one of the longest droughts in sports history.

Donald Trump is facing potential trouble in a state that has gone for a Democrat only twice since the end of World War II.

The September Jobs Report continues to show an economy that is growing to some degree, but hardly growing as fast as it should be.

Donald Trump appears to be pushing voters from America’s fastest growing minority group into the Democratic camp.

A golf legend passes away.

The United States and Russia have reached an agreement to end fighting in Syria, but it seems unlikely to succeed given that it doesn’t involve the parties actually doing the fighting.

David Brooks thinks American politics “Could get ugly” before the ship gets righted.

A true, albeit largely anonymous, hero of humanity has passed away.

Donald Trump’s support among African-Americans is at historic lows, and seems unlikely to recover.