Outside the Beltway

The tumultuous turnover at the top of the Trump team is too much.

Only the best people, dontcha know.

Beto O’Rourke hasn’t officially said that he’s running for President, but he’s certainly sending all the signals you’d expect from a Presidential candidate.

Mandatory vaccination laws raise personal liberty issues that ought to be taken seriously, but in the end, public health concerns weigh heavily in favor of laws mandating vaccination.

As it has since 2007, the Democratic National Committee is barring Fox News from hosting a debate featuring the party’s candidates for President.

Economic growth slowed significantly in the fourth quarter of 2018 from where it had been earlier in the year. And it’s likely to slow down even more.

Based on his appearance on CNN last night, Howard Schultz appears to be running a campaign about nothing.

The Trump Administration either doesn’t realize the impact the shutdown is having on Federal workers who haven’t been paid in a month, or it doesn’t care.

December’s Jobs Report blew past expectations to show more than 300,000 jobs created.

President Trump is expected to name a former Fox News host as Ambassador to the United Nations.

Starbucks Founder Howard Schultz is apparently considering running for President.

The legal troubles for Tesla’s Elon Musk just got a lot more serious.

Jobs growth in August was slightly better than expected, but still nothing overly impressive.

Donald Trump is now attacking his own appointee to head the Federal Reserve Board.

Donald Trump’s vanity-seeking military parade has been postponed amid reports that the estimated cost has increased dramatically.

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.

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.

ABC is bringing back Roseanne without Roseanne Barr. Whether that will prove to be a success or not remains to be seen.

Based on a strict reading of the Constitution, a sitting President probably does have the power to pardon himself. That doesn’t mean he should be allowed to get away with it without consequence.

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

The President teased the Jobs Report an hour before it was officially released. This was both a violation of Federal law, and yet another example of this President violating long-established norms governing how politicians are supposed to act.

May’s jobs report was stronger than the previous two months, but not entirely great.

The Federal Reserve sees the economy staying relatively the same for the foreseeable future, which is both a good and bad thing.

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

The unemployment rate hit a point unseen since Bill Clinton was President in April, but jobs and wage growth remain tepid at best.

Ford, GM, and Chrysler are all moving almost exclusively to trucks, SUVs, and crossovers.

Based on his recent behavior, it’s clear that the President is worried about how loyal Michael Cohen might actually turn out to be.

President Trump is continuing his dangerous and misguided trade war rhetoric,

The Trump presidency is the latest step in treating commentators like policy experts. It is all a manifestation of how the modern GOP is a populist party.

Best known as a television host, he served in the Reagan administration and chief economist of Bear Stearns.

A better than expected jobs report for February, but wage growth slowed for the month.

Just over one year after President Trump’s foolish and ill-informed decision to withdraw from the Trans-Pacific Partnership Canada has stepped in to rescue the deal.

Donald Trump Jr. spoke yesterday with Senate investigators, and his answers raise more questions than they answer.

Donald Trump’s Treasury Secretary won’t commit to putting Harriet Tubman on the $20 bill.

After two days, President Trump finally found the words to condemn the parties responsible for the violence in Charlottesville, but his remarks were far too little, far too late.

A seemingly ‘safe choice’ for F.B. I. Director.

Another sign of a weak economy as the Federal Reserve considers rate hikes and the Presidential campaign moves forward.

Top Republican donors are becoming increasingly concerned that Donald Trump isn’t paying enough attention to raising money for the General Election campaign.

The success of the Broadway musical ‘Hamilton’ appears to be helping to save Alexander Hamilton’s place on the $10 bill. Andrew Jackson, meanwhile, looks likely to be booted from the $20 bill.

Thursday’s debate without Donald Trump drew fewer viewers than might have been expected, but it’s unclear if that’s because Donald Trump wasn’t there.

Without Trump, the seventh Republican debate largely focused on Ted Cruz, who doesn’t seem to have done himself any favors. Donald Trump, meanwhile, will likely not pay any price at all for skipping the last pre-Iowa debate.

CNN is taking over a late February Republican debate from NBC News, meaning it will host more Republican debates this election cycle than any other single network.

The primary debates continue to draw in a lot of viewers.

To nobody’s surprise, the third Democratic Debate received the lowest ratings yet of any debate so far this election cycle.

Another set of solid ratings for the latest debate.

Ratings slipped for last night’s debate, but the numbers were still very respectable.