Outside the Beltway

With the start of the Singapore Summit just hours away, it’s not at all clear what the respective parties can possibly agree to other than what amounts to a photo opportunity.

The President tears up every piece of paper he touches. A whole department is taping them back together for the National Archives.

Democrats have adopted a new rule requiring future candidates for President to certify that they are Democrats, but it seems largely unenforceable.

Thanks to Donald Trump, the happiest man in the world right now is Vladimir Putin.

Hurricane Trump hit the G-7 this weekend, and the damage it left behind will take years to clean up.

Has the party paid too big a price to attract suburban voters?

For the second time in three years, we have a Triple Crown winner.

Trump’s withdrawal of his invitation to the Philadelphia Eagles is just another example of his populistic nationalism. (And it isn’t healthy).

Donald Trump’s approach to international trade has nothing to with economics and everything to do with politics and the culture war he loves to provoke.

The plan to put Harriet Tubman on the $20 bill appears to be running up against President Trump’s bizarre affinity for Andrew Jackson.

Once again, President Trump seems intent on insulting a major American ally.

“Winging it” isn’t how foreign policy should be made.

After three years of ethical and criminal charges, Bob Menendez got a bit of a slap on the wrist from New Jersey Democrats.

More than a decade ago, Donald Trump revealed one of his secrets to success. Exhaust your enemies. It explains much of what has happened since he took office.

The new American Ambassador to Germany is making what clearly seem to be inappropriate statements about domestic politics in Europe.

The Federal Government will borrow more than $1 trillion this year for the first time in more than a half-decade.

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.

Republicans are at least a bit more confident that they’ll hold on to the Senate this year.

A long-overdue overhaul of the way the United States vets those who access classified information is underway.

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.

Donald Trump may or may not be racist himself, but he has most certainly exploited and helped widen racial divisions ever since bursting on the political scene in 2015.

A new book reveals President Obama’s initial reaction to Donald Trump’s election, and provides some detail about their first meeting.

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

The rules of American journalism haven’t caught up with the reality of this Presidency.

President Trump is setting off another trade war, this time with some of America’s closest and most important allies.

President Trump is claiming that he didn’t fire former F.B.I. Director James Comey because of the Russia investigation, even though he admitted the exact opposite just weeks after it happened.

In the age of Trump, morality is optional for conservatives.

A new poll indicates that Texas Senator Ted Cruz isn’t as vulnerable as previously thought, and reminds us that Texas is still a very red state.

A new study suggests that the death toll in Puerto Rico from Hurricane Maria was much higher than previously reported.

The Republican Governor of Missouri is resigning amid growing accusations related to an extramarital affair, blackmail, and sexual assault.

Hours after she unleashed a racist Twitter tirade, Roseanne Barr has had her show canceled by ABC. Of course, ABC knew who it was doing business with well before today.

A small group of Senators is engaged in a seemingly quixotic effort to save DACA before the election.

With the President’s “Spygate” allegations standing largely discredited, his attorney and at the moment chief spokesperson Rudy Giuliani admits that the entire conspiracy theory was created to discredit the Mueller investigation.

Donald Trump chose to mark Memorial Day by talking about himself.

Poland makes the U.S. and NATO an offer they might want to consider refusing.

The Trump Administration has lost track of nearly 1,500 children at the same time that it is implementing a new policy that will result in children who arrive at the border with their parents or other family members.

South Korea’s President is saying that Kim Jong Un has renewed his supposed commitment to ‘denuclearization,’ but it isn’t at all clear what that means.

One day after canceling his summit meeting with Kim Jong Un, President Trump is suggesting it may be back on. Before it happens, though, there ought to be far more adequate preparation.

Former Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein has been charged with rape and sexual assault in a New York Court.

President Trump’s response to the N.F.L.’s new National Anthem policy is as narrow-minded and divisive as you’d expected it to be.

A Federal Judge in New York has ruled that President Trump cannot block users from reading his tweets.

The N.F.L. has come up with a dumb “solution” to a non-existent problem.

Michael Cohen once threatened The Onion because it published a satirical article about Donald Trump.

Despite advice from advisers, the President continues to use unsecured devices to communicate outside of White House channels.

Russia wasn’t the only nation that sent people to meet with Trump Campaign officials at Trump Tower back in 2016 regarding assistance to the Trump Campaign.

After the Ronny Jackson disaster, President Trump has made a new selection for Secretary of Veterans Affairs.

Just when you think the President has hit rock bottom, it gets worse.

The Mueller investigation turns one year old today and, despite the arguments of Trump and his supporters, there’s no sign that it will be coming to an end in the near future.