Outside the Beltway

Women voters are turning decidedly against Donald Trump, this could pose problems for Republican in 2018 and beyond.

The Judge presiding over a case dealing with Trump’s proposed border wall expressed doubts about the project. The President will no doubt be irked by the identity of that Judge.

Yet another top Trump administration official has resigned.

Recent polls have caused Republicans to become more optimistic about their chances in this year’s midterms. That optimism is both premature and misplaced.

A confusing new report from the Washington Post.

My latest for The National Interest takes a contrarian view on the new National Defense Strategy.

The 2008 Republican nominee for president condemned his party and its president for the release of a controversial memo attacking the FBI.

President Trump and his supporters like to claim that the economy has been booming since he became President. A look at the numbers reveals that this is not the case.

President Trump has alienated America’s allies and friends, and they are acting accordingly.

President Trump is apparently pressuring the President of South Korea to give him the credit for talks between North and South Korea that the United States isn’t involved in at all.

One year after his Inauguration, Donald Trump is the most unpopular new President since the invention of modern polling. However, his numbers are generally the same that they’ve been for some time now.

Two Republicans spoke out today against the President’s war on the news media, but don’t expect their colleagues to follow suit.

The GOP’s potential troubles in 2018 don’t just exist at the Congressional level.

The Trump Administration is reversing policy on an Obama Era policy that allowed states to choose their own course on marijuana laws.

With the results from Alabama. the GOP faces a hard road ahead defending its majority in the Senate.

The latest domino to fall in the ongoing wave of sexual harassment and abuse revelations is Matt Lauer.

Another big change for the Boy Scouts.

Stephen Paddock’s crime was clearly terrorizing, and will impact the lives of survivors, families, first responders in many ways for a long time. Based on the currently available evidence, though, the Las Vegas shooting was not “terrorism.”

Most Americans don’t support President Trump’s statements about the protests by N.F.L. players, but it’s just another example of him using hateful rhetoric to pander to his base.

Despite, or perhaps because of, his bigoted, radical, far-right positions on the issues, Roy Moore beat the sitting Senator from Alabama in a runoff election that essentially guarantees that he will win the General Election later this year.

President Trump’s job approval has improved slightly, but the numbers remain historically low for a newly elected President.

Yet another lawsuit against yet another controversial Trump Administration policy.

The ‘No Labels’ movement is back, and it’s as irrelevant to contemporary politics as ever.

Hillary Clinton has found another group to blame for her loss, educated white married women in suburbia.

Hillary Clinton’s latest memoir lashes out at those to blame for her unexpected loss.

A stupid comment about Hurricane Harvey cost a Florida professor his job.

A Federal Appeals Court has upheld the dismissal of a lawsuit filed by Gary Johnson and Jill Stein regarding their exclusion from Presidential debates.

Sarah Palin’s lawsuit against The New York Times suffers a significant setback.

A bit of wishful thinking in the wake of Steve Bannon’s ouster.

Authorities are being second-guessed over their handling of Saturday’s protests. Virginia gun laws are the more obvious problem.

Hatred and violence in Charlottesville, Virginia.

Plus some comparisons of Trump/Obama and Trump/Bill Clinton.

Finally, “law and order” Joe Arpaio gets what he has long deserved.

A new study shows that Baby Boomers no longer account for the largest segment of voters in the United States.

New polling indicates that the Affordable Care Act has gained in popularity with the American public, while Republican reform efforts are viewed overwhelmingly negatively.

Thoughts on the quality of our democracy.

Donald Trump’s golf courses are displaying something that literally is fake news.

In one of the most closely watched Special Elections in American history, the outcome turned out to be not entirely surprising.

Only 28% of Americans support President Trump’s decision to back out of the Paris Accord, but it’s not clear that this will harm him politically.

President Trump’s decision to withdraw from the Paris Climate Accords was neither the big win his supporters claim nor the disaster his critics fear.

Reports indicate that President Trump is preparing to fulfill a campaign promise and withdraw the U.S. from the accord on climate change reached in Paris in 2015.

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

The Republican candidate in today’s Special Election in Montana has been charged with assaulting a reporter.