Outside the Beltway

Polling indicates that voters find the Democratic Party to be even more out of step than the Republican Party.

As he nears the end of his first 100 days in office, President Trump continues to suffer from bad poll numbers.

Democrats came close to picking up what has been a solidly Republican seat for nearly forty years but ended up falling short. Instead, we’ll have a runoff in two months.

States are considering laws that would require candidates for President to release their tax returns, but such laws are probably unconstitutional.

An apparent terrorist attack in Russia’s second largest city.

More trouble for Lt. General Michael Flynn.

The tiny Balkan nation of Montenegro is set to become the latest member of the NATO alliance despite the fact that there is seemingly no good reason for it.

The failure of the AHCA shows that Donald Trump doesn’t know the slightest thing about leadership or how to be President.

A major legislative defeat for Paul Ryan, the House GOP, and President Trump.

Iowa Congressman Steve King is causing controversy yet again with his comments in support of far-right Dutch politician Geert Wilders.

A new Pentagon proposal would place more discretion in the hands of field commanders, removing the need for Presidential approval.

The announcement of a new Muslim travel ban Executive Order has been delayed once again.

This year’s White House Correspondents Association Dinner will be missing one high-profile guest.

The Trump Administration is continuing, and indeed expanding, its war on a free press.

There are two sides in this war between Trump and the media, but only one of them is the right side.

For seventy-seven minutes yesterday, President Trump held forth in a press conference that confirmed the most dire predictions about what he’d be like as President.

Could National Security Adviser Michael Flynn be the first to go under Trump?

At Congressional town halls across the country, there are signs of what could turn into a movement that would cause real headaches for the GOP in future elections.

Judge Gorsuch isn’t much of a fan of Donald Trump’s comments about the judiciary.

There were fireworks on the floor of the Senate last night, but it was really just politics as usual.

Donald Trump is turning out to be a man uniquely obsessed with appearances, and it’s impacting his entire Administration.

Senate Democrats are set to almost unanimously oppose virtually all of the Trump Cabinet nominees yet to be voted on.

The President throws the US under the bus to defend Putin.

Two new polls show that most Americans oppose President Trump’s ban on travel from seven majority Muslim countries, but that most Republicans support it.

Donald Trump’s initial job approval numbers are lower than any President since the EIsenhower Administration.

Despite campaign promises, President Trump appears to be putting off any immediate decision on the location of the U.S. Embassy to Israel.

The first full day of Donald Trump’s Presidency consisted largely of obsessions with irrelevant facts and outright lies.

The mystery of what happened aboard Malaysian Airlines Flight 370 may remain at the bottom of the Indian Ocean forever.

Once again, Donald Trump has played his supporters for suckers.

The new leader of the Senate’s Democrats says he regrets supporting the filibuster reforms his party passed in 2013.

While you were celebrating Christmas, Israel was blasting the Obama Administration and cozying up to the incoming Trump Administration.

It seems as though 2016 has taken many more celebrities lives than past years.

A trial balloon hopefully made of lead.

The situation in the Middle East just potentially became much more complicated.