Outside the Beltway

With the start of her confirmation hearings just days away, Gina Haspel’s nomination to be C.I.A. Director is by no means secure.

Regrets, he’s had a few.

National Republicans are increasingly concerned that an upstart, racist candidate who has unleashed personal attacks on Mitch McConnell’s family will sneak through and win tomorrow’s primary to decide who will face Joe Manchin in November.

Seven years after deactivation, the U.S. Second Fleet will be patrolling the North Atlantic again.

They hired Israeli Private Investigators to dig up dirt on former Obama officials, including Ben Rhodes and Colin Kahl.

Eleven states plus DC, who have 172 of the 270 electoral votes needed to elect a President, are now part of the compact.

The incident involving Paul Ryan and the House Chaplain has raised some questions.

The former SecState is engaging in some shadow diplomacy.

While the Trump Administration slowly tries to remake the Federal Judiciary, states are moving to pass radical new challenges to Roe v. Wade.

After less than two weeks, former President George H.W. Bush is out of the hospital.

To paraphrase the late Dennis Green, he is who we thought he was. 

Rudy Giuliani tried to clean up the mess he created for his client earlier this week. He failed miserably.

Support for gun control spiked in the wake of the Parkland, Florida school shooting but it appears to be returning to more normal levels, and that’s bad news for gun control advocates.

After hastily removing the House Chaplain under unclear circumstances, Speaker of the House Paul Ryan has reversed himself.

In addition to his admissions about the Stormy Daniels matter, Rudy Giuliani also confirmed what we’ve known for awhile, that James Comey was fired because of the Russia investigation.

A new lawsuit seeks to have the 2012 DACA program declared unconstitutional.

Rudy Giuliani threw a live grenade into the middle of the Stormy Daniels affair last night, and he’s made things much, much worse for his client.

Stormy Daniels is suing the President for defamation after he accused her of lying about a threat made to her seven years ago.

Another one of Trump’s lawyers bites the dust, and hired someone with some very specific experience.

When it comes to a potential interview with Robert Mueller, President Trump faces risks no matter what form that interview takes.

Now that girls are joining the Boy Scouts, the organization has quite reasonably changed its name accordingly.

It’s been 441 days since Donald Trump held a full-fledged Presidential press conference. Does anyone care?

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

The new Secretary of State is an improvement over the worst Secretary of State in history.

Nearly two-thirds of Americans support marijuana legalization according to a new poll.

Robert Mueller has some questions for the President, and the wide range of topic areas should worry President Trump significantly.

Israeli Prime Minister gave a speech yesterday designed to undermine the nuclear deal with Iran. The evidence was unconvincing, but the speech was really only aimed at an audience of one.

Republicans are worried about 2018, and they’re even more worried that they have a President who is refusing to acknowledge political reality.

Failed Senate candidate Roy Moore is suing several of the women who accused him of sexual misconduct during last year’s campaign.

The Vice-President’s personal physician accused Ronny Jackson of misconduct back in September, according to new reports.

It takes a whole lot of work to net small gains for underrepresented groups.

In a new book, Senator John McCain makes an announcement that everyone was anticipating.

The United States is apparently looking to Libya as a guide for upcoming talks with North Korea. The DPRK most likely sees the fate of that nation and its leader as a warning.

President Trump’s on-again, off-again visit to Great Britain appears to be on again.

Andrew Sullivan wonders, “Will there always be an England?”

An oak sapling brought to the United States by French President Macron went missing over the weekend. The reason for its disappearance has been answered.

General (Retired) Michael Hayden has some harsh, and concerning, criticisms of the Trump administration.

There are reasons to be skeptical about the dawning of a new age on the peninsula.

Instead of attending the White House Correspondents Association Dinner last night, Donald Trump took his show on the road where he continued his long-standing attacks on the press. Unfortunately, it’s a message that resonates with his supporters.

The House Intelligence Committee’s report is being touted as vindication by the Trump Administration and its supporters. It’s not.

As has often been the case, the White House Correspondent’s Dinner is arousing some degree of controversy, mostly because of the comedy or lack thereof.

Solving the problems created by neighborhood-based schools isn’t going to be easy.

The lawyer who met with President Trump’s oldest son and other top Trump campaign officials is now admitting that she is a Russian informant.

A Federal Judge in California has placed the Stormy Daniels civil lawsuit against Donald Trump and Michael Cohen on hold due largely to the ongoing criminal investigation pending against Cohen.

A Federal Appeals Court has reversed a lower court ruling that struck down Texas’s Voter ID law as discriminatory against minority voters.

The White House is pushing back on the allegations of misconduct that were made against Ronny Jackson this week, and trying to use them in a high-profile Senate race in Montana.

The first estimate of economic growth in the first three months of 2018 beat expectations slightly, but it doesn’t bode well for the immediate future.

Republicans joined with Democrats to advance a bill to protect Special Counsel Robert Mueller, but it’s unlikely to go anywhere beyond that.

Not surprisingly, Mike Pompeo was confirmed as America’s 70th Secretary of State today. Now, the hard work begins.

Marking the end of a long fall from grace, the man once known as “America’s Dad” has been found guilty on three counts of sexual assault.