Outside the Beltway

Moscow helped Trump in 2016. Do they want him back?

Several trends are pointing in a new direction.

Nobody even agrees on what baselines to use.

America first.

Has this precedent permanently damaged the country? Or is it just politics as usual?

One side is arguing over rules while the other is focused on consequences.

Policies towards Iran and NK are both a mess.

With one speech, Kim Jong-Un has demonstrated the Trump Administration’s North Korea policy to have been an utter failure.

Notwithstanding Russia’s weak position vis a vis the west, It’s Putin who seems to be winning.

The DPRK is promising a “gift” to the United States. The only question seems to be what form it will take.

For the third time since 2015, Donald Trump gets Politifact’s “Lie Of The Year.”

China and the U.S. have reached an initial trade deal that averts billions of dollars of new, inadvisable, tariffs, but the devil is in the details.

Boris Johnson and the British Conservative Party scored a huge win in yesterday’s General Election, while Labour walked away with its biggest defeat in a generation.

New polling shows that the American public does not support the President and his trade war.

November saw much higher jobs growth than economic analysts were expecting, but it could just be a statistical blip.

With the clock ticking down to the end of the year and a deadline imposed by the DPRK on talks with the U.S., the Trump Administration’s North Korea policy is in a shambles.

President Trump said this morning that he’s fine with letting his trade war with the rest of the world continue all the way to the 2020 election.

A key economic statistic that rarely gets widespread public attention is showing that the manufacturing sector has been in recession for four months now.

The costs of irresponsible policy.

Further evidence that the Republican Party has turned into a cult of personalty built around Donald Trump.

Donald Trump’s pardons of soldiers convicted of war crimes sends the wrong message to the military, to our allies, and to the world.

Trump takes credit for stopping his “friend” Xi from attacking Hong Kong protesters.

Hong Kong voters send a strong message to Beijing, and the world.

After months of anti-government protests, Hong Kong headed to the polls in record number.

The Trump Administration’s strategy in North Korea is an utter failure.

Against the advice of his top military advisers, President Trump has cleared three American soldiers of war crimes, sending a horrible signal to the world and to the troops in the field.

Former Utah Governor Jon Huntsman is running to get his old job back.

Thirty years ago today, history took off in a brand new direction.

After more than a year of Trump’s trade war, the trade deficit, which he promised to reduce, has increased.

The economy grew an anemic 1.9% in the third quarter according to the first estimate of the state of the economy over the summer.

There’s far more good in technology than bad, but these days we seem to be far more focused on the bad right now.

So far at least, Elizabeth Warren is not doing a good job of articulating her foreign policy positions. That needs to change if she’s going to be a serious candidate.

Fear of Donald Trump and his minions is making it hard for Republicans to answer a simple question.

The third part of a long, but connected, set of thoughts.

With twelve Democrats set to clash tonight in Ohio, it’s time to take a look at the state of the race.

As the Turkish invasion of northern Syria continues, Donald Trump responds with basically nothing.

Michael Bloomberg is reportedly reconsidering his decision not to run for President.

A new Senate Intelligence Committee report adds to the evidence regarding Russian interference in the 2016 election.

Trump’s error in Syria.

With an eye on the trade war and the 2020 election, President Trump is increasing subsidies and mandates for corn-based ethanol.

The President of the United States behaves like a child.

The National Basketball Association’s kowtowing to China hits American shores.

South Park mocked Chinese censorship so, of course, they were censored in China.

Republicans face a choice. Do they put their country first, or do they put their President first?

North Korea appears to be pulling back from any future negotiations over its nuclear weapons and ballistic missile programs, leaving the Trump Administration’s Korea policy in shambles.

President Trump’s latest Syria move is coming under heavy criticism even from fellow Republicans.

President Trump has reportedly pledged to Chinese President Xi Jinping that the United States would not speak out against Chinese actions in Hong Kong.

A star NBA general manager may lose his job for expressing American values.

Much like it did during the McCarthy Era, the Republican Party has to decide what side of history it wishes to be on. The right side, or the wrong side.