Outside the Beltway

A deep dive into why our politics are so broken.

A ginned up controversy regarding a border nature reserve has escalated.

The governor of Texas vows to finish what Trump started.

Quick takes from the week.

Immigration policy is harder than it looks.

The 46th President has been busy signing proclamations signaling a new direction.

The best people.

The Supreme Court isn’t taking much of a break this year.

More evidence that walls don’t work as well as claimed.

The math compelled it. But he outlasted several better-known candidates.

New section of wall goes all Jericho in Mexicali

Two Federal Courts have blocked the Administration from diverting Defense Department funds to pay for the President’s border wall

President Trump has put his son-in-law in charge of building the border wall.

Late last week, Attorney General William Barr demonstrated quite aptly the extent to which he has become just another Trump loyalist.

Tomorrow, the Supreme Court will hear argument in a case likely to decide the fate of former President Obama’s DACA program.

Smugglers are getting over and through Trump’s border wall with material you can buy at your local Home Depot.

A Federal Court has struck down the President’s diversion of funds for his border wall.

As the vultures continue to circle above the White House, the President continues to lash out.

As he reaches his 1,000th day in office, Trump’s lies pile up at an astronomical rate.

The past week has demonstrated more notably than any other that this President is not well.

Apparently, the President thinks shooting people is amusing.

Trump threatens civil war if he’s removed from office.

Once again, a fight is set to brew over funding for the President’s border wall. Will he force another shutdown in an election year?

A new poll finds President Trump trailing his potential Democratic opponents by huge margins among Latino voters.

Can the media fairly parse the statements of those running against President ‘Bottomless Pinocchio’?

The Trump Administration from projects to build on-base schools and daycare facilities to spend on his border wall.

Just joking edition.

Donald Trump isn’t just admiring dictators now, he’s acting like one.

Donald Trump lies with the ease that the rest of us tie our shoes. Will that fact have an impact on voters?

The only African-American Republican in the House of Representatives is retiring, and that should worry Republicans nationwide.

Another day, another mass shooting and, as is becoming all too common in this country, this one appears to have been racially motivated.

The odds have increased all border districts will be represented by Democrats after 2020.

The Supreme Court handed the President a victory last night, ruling that the Plaintiffs in a lawsuit challenging his funding of the border wall did not have standing to challenge his diversion of Defense Department funds. This may only be a temporary victory, though.

Another court loss for Trump and his border wall.

The Supreme Court has agreed to hear an appeal in a series of cases challenging the President’s decision to end the DACA program.

With hours to go before they were set to start. the President delayed the mass deportation raids that were supposed to begin this morning.

The latest is about deportations

The Supreme Court rejected an effort by the Virginia House of Delegates to overturn a Federal Court ruling that the state’s district lines constituted gerrymandering by race. But they didn’t rule on the merits of the appeal.

Donald Trump continues to lie at a record pace. Does anyone care?

The House of Representatives passed a bill that would extend protection to DACA beneficiaries and other Dreamers, but it’s likely to die in the Senate.

The GOP Senators standing up against the President’s tariffs on Mexico are being called courageous. I’m wondering what took them so long to stand up.

The President’s foolish tariffs against Mexico are finally causing many Republican Senators to stand up against him.

A Federal Judge in Washington, D.C. dismissed a lawsuit against Trump “national emergency” to fund the border wall, but his ruling did not reach the merits of the lawsuit’s claim.

A Federal Judge has put at least a partial hold on President’s Trump’s effort to use a “national emergency” to fund his border wall.

As Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush remind us, there was a time when Republicans weren’t xenophobic nationalists when it comes to immigration policy.

Justin Amash spoke out against the President and Attorney General. Unsurprisingly this is not being received well by his fellow Republicans.

There are several months to go before a budget must be passed but there are already signs that the White House and Congress could be headed for an impasse.

Patrick Shanahan, who has been serving as Acting Defense Secretary since James Mattis left in December, is being selected to replace Mattis in that position.

Colorado Senator Michael Bennet is the latest entrant into the race for the Democratic nomination for President, and the field isn’t done growing.

A months-long standoff is stopping hurricane relief.