Outside the Beltway

The plagiarism case reported last May was resolved after ten months of aggravation for both sides.

The old name was apparently confusing for many customers.

Donald Trump said he wishes people would ‘sit up and pay attention’ to him the way they do in North Korea when Kim Jong Un speaks.

House Republicans put forward a plan to protect DACA beneficiaries, but President Trump appears to have doomed it already.

Donald Trump’s former Campaign Manager was sent to jail, a move that likely increases the pressure on him to cooperate with Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation.

Words mean things. Unless they don’t.

Two months ago, the President called on states to send National Guard troops to the border. As expected, they’re not guarding the border.

The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette’s editorial cartoonist is out after twenty-five years.

President Trump is at the center of controversy again after video emerged of him returning the salute of a North Korean General.

There was some degree of humor in the Dept. of Justice’s Inspector General’s report.

Happy Friday.

The Department of Justice’s Inspector General found that former F.B.I. Director James Comey was ‘insubordinate’ in regard to the Clinton email investigation, but found no evidence of political bias at the Bureau.

The Attorney General of New York has filed a Complaint against President Trump and several members of his family alleging widespread fraud in the operation of Trump’s charitable Foundation.

In a significant First Amendment ruling, the Supreme Court has held that a Minnesota law barring “political apparel” at polling places is unconstitutional.

The GOP and Donald Trump are indistinguishable now. But it’s not clear what that means.

One outcome of the SIngapore Summit includes a purported agreement to work on repatriating American remains from the Korean War. This is a good thing, but the President couldn’t resist adding obvious embellishment.

President Trump continues to dismiss concerns about Kim Jong Un’s brutality, and to lavish praise on a man who has a considerable amount of blood on his hands.

A POLITICO story pushes a plausible narrative with an example that’s almost certainly not evidence of it.

Corey Stewart may be the darling of the Trumpidians in the GOP, but he won’t be getting any help from Senate Republicans.

The Trump Administration’s new legal position on coverage for people with pre-existing conditions could pose political problems in the fall.

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo’s celebrity challenger doesn’t appear to be going anywhere.

President Trump is touting his Photo Op Summit as the end of the North Korean nuclear threat. Reality is quite different.

Tom Nichols draws a contrast between Republican criticisms of the last president and their defense of this one.

Trump spent much of Tuesday praising a dictator who has murdered and imprisoned millions of people. Then he returned to attacking the democratically elected leader of one of our closest allies.

Donald Trump’s former personal lawyer is expected to cooperate with the Mueller investigation.

The North American delegation has won the right to lose a whole lot of money putting on a soccer tournament.

Virginia Republicans took a hard-right turn in yesterday’s primary. This is likely to benefit the Democrats.

GOP primary voters continue to reward staunch supporters of the President and punish those who get on his bad side.

His criticism of President Trump appears to have been a key reason.

Tim Draper’s fantasy will finally get a vote this November.

Longstanding policy that the Justice Department defend an Act of Congress if there is “any reasonable argument” it is constitutional is being ignored.

Greece and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia have apparently finally settled a three-decade old name dispute.

Maine voters head to the polls today to pick nominees for Governor and several other offices, but the most interesting thing is way they’ll be voting.

The Federal Government is signing on to an effort by Texas and several other states to have the DACA program declared unlawful.

The Singapore Summit meeting between President Trump and Kim Jong Un was about as substance-less as most analysts anticipated it would be.

Both President Trump and Ivanka Trump are profiting handsomely from their time in the White House.

Not surprisingly, Canadians aren’t very happy about President Trump’s attacks on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

A seemingly innocuous change to a newspaper style guide has some significant implications.

The Trump Administration is declining to defend the Affordable Care Act in Court, arguing that the individual mandate is now unconstitutional because the tax penalty has been eliminated.

With the start of the Singapore Summit just hours away, it’s not at all clear what the respective parties can possibly agree to other than what amounts to a photo opportunity.

In Husted v. A. Philip Randolph Institute, Samuel Alito authored a 5-4 opinion ruling that removing voters from the rolls after four years is perfectly legal.

The President tears up every piece of paper he touches. A whole department is taping them back together for the National Archives.

Democrats have adopted a new rule requiring future candidates for President to certify that they are Democrats, but it seems largely unenforceable.

Thanks to Donald Trump, the happiest man in the world right now is Vladimir Putin.

European alliance and Russian goals edition.

Hurricane Trump hit the G-7 this weekend, and the damage it left behind will take years to clean up.

Has the party paid too big a price to attract suburban voters?

Dan Coates, the Director of National Intelligence, has issued a strong warning that has received little attention.

For the second time in three years, we have a Triple Crown winner.

And yet, Trump seems to think his gut is all he needs. This will not end well with North Korea, nor the G-7 (or any number of other things).