Outside the Beltway

Mike Pence’s obsequiousness to his master knows no limits.

John McCain continues to bravely battle an aggressive form of brain cancer, but he’s already made clear that he doesn’t want the 45th President of the United States at his funeral.

The facts in the Stormy Daniels affair continue to move in a direction that doesn’t look good for the President.

President Trump has told an astonishingly large number of lies since taking office.

Remember Donald Trump’s strange doctor? Well, things just got stranger;.

More signs of tension between President Trump and his Chief of Staff.

Despite the fact that President Trump’s continues to praise him, Ronny Jackson will not be returning to the White House as the President’s personal physician.

President Trump may be looking to push Chief of Staff John Kelly aside by giving him a next to impossible job.

There has been a massive layoff at the Republican website. Everyone who criticized the President is gone.

Not unexpectedly, Ronny Jackson has withdrawn his nomination to be Secretary of Veterans Affairs.

Overnight, we moved to content encryption. Here’s what that means for you.

Membership has its privileges.

Expect possible down time, site wonkiness.

President Trump is on the attack against James Comey as the former F.B.I. Director begins his book tour.

President Trump’s job approval numbers remain historically low.

In the wake of the latest attack on Syria, some of the President’s strongest supporters seem shocked to discover that the unprincipled egomaniac they supported is, in fact, an unprincipled egomaniac.

For every Trump tweet, there is literally something that says exactly the opposite.

You many have noticed the array of images and links under the footer of post pages. Here’s what it is.

After eight months in office, the pressures on Chief of Staff John Kelly continue to mount under a President who cannot be controlled and whose behavior will not change.

A blog post and resulting Twitter exchange point to a larger problem in our political dialog.

The Trump Administration says David Shulkin resigned as Veterans Affairs Secretary. Shulkin says he was fired. Which one of them is right could be legally significant, but probably won’t ever be heard in Court.

So, not conspiracy theory lawyer after all.

Profiles in courage? With Republicans in the Trump Era, it’s more like profiles in cowardice.

New reports indicate that Donald Trump’s lawyer Michael Cohen has been involved in efforts to keep Stormy Daniels from telling her story for at least the past seven years.

The Stormy Daniels/Donald Trump story will break open wide on 60 Minutes next weekend.

On OTB’s subjective, inconsistent enforcement of its policies designed to promote civil discussion.

The microdevelopment of the site continues apace.

I’ve made the sad discovery that longtime friend of the blog John Burgess passed away on February 16, 2016.

Does OTB’s Quick Takes section still serve a useful purpose?

Ben Carson has expensive taste in office furniture.

We’ve rolled out a few modest updates to the site design.

Mark Levin says we’re “morons” and “illiterate in English” because we’ve quoted the NYT.

Rather than spamming every comment thread with issues, list any other issues here and we’ll see what we can do. 

The long-overdue redesign of OTB is now live.

Whether it’s the abuse angle or the more serious issue of security clearances, the White House still can’t get the story straight on the Rob Porter case.

While I don’t always agree with her, I’ve never ceased to be amazed at the sheer vitriol she inspires, given that she’s unfailingly polite, not discernibly partisan, and bends over backwards to acknowledge the merits of competing viewpoints.

The Trump Administration is seeking to overhaul the food stamps program.

President Trump spoke up about the spousal abuse charges against his former Staff Secretary Rob Porter. His response was entirely predictable.

The Rob Porter story, which is quickly becoming the Rob Porter scandal, tells us a lot about the Trump White House, and none of it is good.

Today in an increasingly liberal, educated, globalized, and democratic world, we have more reason than ever to listen to the opinion of our peers and, where appropriate, to be open to their counsel.

Last week, the President was calling for national unity. This week, he called political opponents “treasonous.”

President Trump is claiming that the Nunes memo vindicates him. He’s wrong.

Donald Trump lies about even the most trivial matters, How are we supposed to believe anything else he says?

Yesterday marked fifteen years since I launched Outside the Beltway on the old Blogspot service. 

We’re slowly fixing the site.

The redevelopment of the site that I posted about a few weeks back is underway in a phased approach.

Steve Bannon loses his position at Breitbart after his blistering comments about the President and others in the Administration became public.

New reports indicate that the President is spending more and more time watching television and tweeting. That’s not what he was elected to do.