Outside the Beltway

Twenty five alleged plotters have been arrested

Three-and-a-half years and almost 6 million tax dollars have produced nothing.

The truth is pretty obvious.

A Manichean struggle between good and evil.

An irresponsible Trump-era practice continues.

Science and insanity don’t mix.

Brought to you by the son of Moon.

RussiaGate is back in the news but the story is unlikely to move the needle.

Debunking urban legends and Internet rumors is harder than it used to be.

The disgraced loser remains as popular as ever with his base.

We’re witnessing something not seen since 1989.

A one-time denizen of Blogger’s Row at CPAC has come a long way.

President Trump’s illegal plan to exclude illegal aliens may have been thwarted.

Perhaps the most normal thing President Trump has done.

In a sane world, Joe Biden’s election win would not have come as a surprise. Alas . . . .

Fear of a reprise of 2016 is still with us.

The stakes of losing will be catastrophic. Either way.

Statements by an HHS official underscore the rot of this administration.

A pleasant surprise.

Yet another call for military intervention in domestic politics.

A column is getting negative attention for all the wrong reasons

A lousy column indirectly makes an important point.

As scary as the Cold War was, it did reduce the silliness in American politics.

Trump fires another Inspector General.

But they weren’t shouting it from the rooftops.

A smaller staff is arguably a good idea. But not this way.

After a two-year investigation, the Inspector General of the Department of Justice found no basis for the conspiracy theories being pushed by the Republicans regarding the Russia investigation.

Later today, California Congressman Duncan Hunter, Jr. will plead guilty to charges of embezzling up to $250,000 from his campaign’s bank account.

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

The Republican Party is a cult with Donald Trump at the center and his ardent supporters are brainwashed cult members.

He raises a very real problem.

An internal Justice Department investigation fails to find any evidence of political bias in the Russia investigation.

Jeff Sessions demonstrates just how obsequious he’s willing to be to get his Senate seat back.

Jeff Sessions entered the race for the GOP nomination for Senate in Alabama by heaping obsequious and pathetic praise on a man who had spent two years insulting him publicly and privately

Jeff Sessions is running to win back his old Senate seat, putting into play the possibility of a clash with President Trump.

A key diplomat and close supporter of the President has essentially confirmed the existence of a quid pro quo between Ukrainian aid and negative information about the President’s political opponents.

Former Senator and Attorney General Jeff Sessions is reportedly considering running for his old Senate seat.

There’s apparently big news in the fight against ISIS.

New testimony from a former Trump adviser details how Rudy Giuliani was able to hijek American foreign policy.

The liberal notion that people are persuadable through airing of ideas is obsolete.

Contrary to the hopes of some, getting rid of Trump isn’t going to purge the GOP of Trumpism.

It’s not just Ukraine.

Jake Tapper and Chris Wallace both put Administration surrogates through the ringer on their respective Sunday morning shows.

Yes, he was terrible at his job. But one can’t break that which is already broken.

A former Federal Reserve officials argues that the Fed should not lower interest rates to compensate for the impact of the President’s trade war, potentially leading to his defeat in the election. This is an incredibly bad idea.

A disturbing story that’s almost certainly not what it first appears.

Even when it comes from his favorite propaganda network, Donald Trump doesn’t like bad news.

The Trump Administration and 2020 campaign are clearly worried about the state of the economy. They should be, because it could be the one thing that dooms his re-election chances.

Jeffrey Epstein’s death by suicide has led to many legitimate questions that should be investigated. It has also led to the rise of a number of baseless conspiracy theories.

Just over a week after Dan Coats announced he was stepping own as Director of National Intelligence, there are more shakeups at the top of the U.S. intelligence community.