Outside the Beltway

Having exhausted their word list and the competitors, the contest ended with octo-champs.

So good. So easy to win.

Surprising pollsters and political analysts down under, Australia’s ruling center-right coalition pulled off a big win in Saturday’s election.

The President’s trade policies stand to benefit a lot of other countries, just not the United States.

As it has in so many other areas, the right has sacrificed it’s previously held beliefs on international trade to feckless obedience toward President Trump.

Donald Trump’s tariffs are hurting the American economy, American consumers, and American businesses.

As the Friday deadline for trade talks with China approaches, President Trump is threatening even more tariffs.

The former Kentucky coal executive, Republican fundraiser, and Ambassador to Canada would replace Nikki Haley in what used to be a position dominated by more experienced diplomats.

Despite seemingly ideal conditions, Green Mountain Care was an absolute debacle.

The President has hit a dubious milestone barely two years into his administration.

The Supreme Court’s conservative majority appears poised to uphold the inclusion of a citizenship question on the 2020 Census.

Steve King, who has recently come under attack for a long history of racist remarks, is facing a strong challenge for the GOP nomination in 2020.

What would it mean for the companies’ workers, the stock market and the cost of care?

Some basics on the US party system.

A further attempt at explanation.

The first test flight of SpaceX’s Crew Dragon appears to have been an all-around success.

Notwithstanding President Trump’s tariffs, America’s trade deficit hit a record level last year.

There’s a political scandal brewing in Canada just as that nation starts looking ahead to elections later this year.

Steve King isn’t backing down from his history of white supremacy and racism. And he’s also running for re-election.

President Trump has selected Kelly Knight Craft, the current Ambassador to Canada, to serve as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations.

For now,former President Obama is staying on the sidelines in the race for the Democratic nomination.

The Trump Administration continues to drive a wedge between the United States and Europe, can it ever be repaired?

Two months after being named, Heather Nauert withdrew her name as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations due to a ‘Nannygate’ problem.

President Trump declared a national emergency at the southern border while at the same time undercutting his own case for doing so.

Thanks mostly to political opposition that misrepresented the nature of the deal it had made, Amazon has abandoned plans to locate parts of its new headquarters in New York City.

The President will sign the bill to fund the government and avert another government shutdown, but in doing so he’ll also lay the groundwork for another showdown with Congress.

In his business career Donald Trump relied largely on fear and intimidation to get his way on business deals. As President, he’s finding that nobody is afraid of him.

The American withdrawal from the I.N.F. Treaty gives Vladimir Putin exactly what he wants.

Having two presidents sounds like a terrible sitcom idea. In reality, the situation is just plain terrible.

The situation in Venezuela entered a new stage yesterday as opposition leader Juan Guaidó claimed the nation’s Presidency.

Despite the President’s claims, the American steel industry isn’t doing well at all.

Thoughts on politics and constitutional powers.

The House GOP has moved to rebuke Iowa Congressman for his racist remarks. What took them so long?

Donald Trump continues to appear to advocate ideas that harm American national interests and benefit Vladimir Putin. Draw your own conclusions as to why.

President Trump is claiming he never said Mexico would directly pay for the wall, except for all those times when he said Mexico would directly pay for the wall.

Iowa’s Steve King has long expressed anti-immigrant and racist views, now he’s asking why that’s a bad thing.

As the shutdown drags on, the President is digging in his heels even further.

Before even taking office, Mitt Romney is taking on the President. It’s a good sign, but we’ll see what it leads to.

President Trump is now threatening to close the border if he doesn’t get funding for his border wall.

The TPP is about to go into effect without the US.

Is it possible that the solution to the government shutdown is letting the President pretend he got funding for his border wall even though he didn’t?

President Trump is expected to name a former Fox News host as Ambassador to the United Nations.

Washington said farewell to George H.W. Bush today in a service that both remembered his spirit and his heroism, and stands as a sharp rebuke to what politics has been reduced to in America today.

The Trump Administration is preparing to ban bump stocks in the coming weeks.

A brewing fight over funding for the President’s border wall could throw a monkey wrench into plans to pass a budget by next Friday.

A decade after being bailed out by the Federal government, the giant automaker is slashing jobs.

The European Union has approved the final Brexit deal negotiated with Theresa May’s government, but the final chapter has yet to be written.

A filing in an unrelated case has apparently revealed the existence of a sealed indictment against Wikileaks founder Julian Assange.

One hundred years after the end of World War One, the forces that led to it are waking up from a long slumber.

On Tuesday, Michigan joined the ranks of the states where marijuana is legal and several other states legalized it for medical purposes.