Outside the Beltway

Trump’s trade war will claw back 25% of the growth in GDP, slightly more than 20% of the wage growth and more than wipe out all the jobs his tax cuts would provide.

President Trump and the President of the European Commission announced an agreement late yesterday on trade issues, but it’s long on promises and short on results.

If President Trump’s trade war continues, it could have a serious impact on the political fortunes of President Trump and his party.

The President is apparently getting ready to take yet another ill-advised step in his ill-advised, economically illiterate trade war.

The President was up late last night sending an incredibly over-the-top tweet directed at Iran.

For example, Turkey’s Erdogan.

At a minimum, Trump is betraying his oath of office. That is one hell of a minimum.

The 95-year-old elder statesman is slowly shedding his public reticence at the risk of the access on which he has built his fortune.

The Trump Administration is inviting Vladimir Putin to Washington, D.C. for a second summit in the fall. What could possibly go wrong?

We still don’t know what President Trump and Vladimir Putin talked about or agreed to during their two-hour meeting on Monday.

Three new polls show that Republicans basically agree with the leader of their party when it comes to the issue of Russian interference in American elections.

There should be no question about a request to interview a former US Ambassador.

The Office of Special Counsel Robert Mueller has issued indictments against twelve Russian intelligence officials for election-related hacking, and in the process has shown most of the arguments made by the President and his surrogates regarding the Russia investigation are nonsense.

Not surprisingly, the President’s visit to the United Kingdom wasn’t exactly diplomatic, or even borderline polite.

The NATO Summit is going about as well as can be expected.

The Thai SEALs have completed an amazing rescue effort with success.

On the eve of the NATO Summit, President Trump continues to engage in tactics that seem to serve no purpose other than to undermine America’s most important and successful alliance.

With Brexit negotiations proceeding slowly, Theresa May loses her Brexit Minister and, more significantly, Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson, who is likely to become one of her leading critics inside the Conservative Party going forward.

The situation isn’t as awful as portrayed by the AP—but it’s still pretty bad.

The ill-advised move is sure to raise costs for businesses and consumers and roil global stock markets.

Donald Trump had to be talked down from considering military intervention in Venezuela.

The right-wing government in Warsaw has purged more than one-third of the members of the Polish Supreme Court in a crackdown on political opponents.

Donald Trump’s trade war continues to have negative consequences for American consumers and businesses.

Andrés Manuel López Obrador, a populist from the left, rode a wave of populism and public disdain for the outgoing President to a landslide win in Mexico

Trump’s deal-making prowess in NK and Iran isn’t too impressive.

The Polish Government has amended a controversial law that sought to punish people for discussing the role that some Poles played in the Holocaust.

The current discussion about SCOTUS is a good excuse to look at how other countries handle these things.

Trump uses an array of ugly language about immigrants. He pretends like he is just talking about MS13 but that is not the case.

An Ebola outbreak that started last month in Central Africa appears to be contained. You can thank an aggressive vaccination campaign for that.

In a ruling that largely relies on the authority granted by Congress to the President to regulate immigration on national security grounds, the Supreme Court has upheld the final version of the Administration’s travel ban.

Once touted as an example of his deal-making prowess, Harley-Davidson sent a rebuke to President Trump by announcing it was moving some manufacturing to Europe to counteract the impact of his ongoing trade war.

Not surprisingly, Canadians aren’t too thrilled with Donald Trump these days.

Turkey’s authoritarian leader is going to be around for a long time.

Three months after it started, the Trump Trade War is already starting to have a negative impact on American businesses and American consumers.

A towering figure gone much too soon.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu faces what could be a scandal that will quickly push him out of office.

President Trump once said that “trade wars are good and easy to win.” It’s only been three months since he started this war and we’re already finding out just how wrong he is about that.

Colombia is currently choosing its next president.

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

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.

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

Trump’s suggestion to include Russia again in a new G-8 makes me wonder about a couple of things.

The actions of the Trump administration are helping Russian-EU relations (to the detriment of the US).

The arguments in favor of a permanent U.S./NATO base in Poland are not very convincing.

The new American Ambassador to Germany is making what clearly seem to be inappropriate statements about domestic politics in Europe.

Echoing the Obama Administration, the Trump Administration is arguing that it did not need Congressional authorization to attack Syria earlier this year.

According to reports, President Trump is preparing to go to war against luxury German cars.

A couple weeks ago, the North Koreans made a big deal about destroying their nuclear test site. It now appears that the event the media witnessed was less than meets the eye.

Among the stumbling blocks to a DPRK nuclear summit: who’s going to pay for Kim Jong Un’s hotel room?

President Trump is setting off another trade war, this time with some of America’s closest and most important allies.