Outside the Beltway

President Trump continues to dismiss concerns about Kim Jong Un’s brutality, and to lavish praise on a man who has a considerable amount of blood on his hands.

Not surprisingly, Canadians aren’t very happy about President Trump’s attacks on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

Political columnist and commentator Charles Krauthammer has weeks to live.

After a period where Republicans seemed to be closing the gap, Democrats may be widening their lead heading into November.

In what seems like an obvious response to the rise of the #MeToo movement and the cultural changes it has brought about, the Miss America pageant is making a major change.

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.

The President’s constant attacks on the news media are meant for a single purpose, to undermine even accurate reporting about wrongdoing in his Administration.

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.

This President lies on a daily basis. It’s time to start calling him what he is.

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.

Seemingly out of the blue, the June 12th summit between President Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has been canceled by the United States.

President Trump has been tweeting up a storm since Sunday, raising a question. Should we view his Tweets as the rantings of a cranky old man, or as something more serious?

The former President and First Lady have struck a first-of-its-kind agreement to produce a wide variety of content for Netflix.

The new President of the National Rifle Association has a new theory to explain mass shootings, but there’s no basis for believing it’s accurate.

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.

President Trump’s latest financial disclosure finally acknowledges that he reimbursed Michael Cohen for the payoff to buy the silence of Stormy Daniels.

While longtime supporters have turned on the legendary attorney over his support of Donald Trump, he’s been astonishingly consistent.

Another data point demonstrating that a distinguished military career doesn’t preclude being an awful human being or a crackpot.

For Donald Trump and his supporters, “Fake News” means any news that doesn’t shower enough praise on him.

Whether Don Blankenship wins or loses in West Virginia, his success is yet another example of how Donald Trump has changed the GOP for the worse.

A blast from the past as Oliver North, who was once at the center of a major Washington scandal, is named President of the National Rifle Association.

The facts in the Stormy Daniels affair continue to move in a direction that doesn’t look good for the President.

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

Rudy Giuliani tried to clean up the mess he created for his client earlier this week. He failed miserably.

President Trump has told an astonishingly large number of lies since taking office.

In addition to his admissions about the Stormy Daniels matter, Rudy Giuliani also confirmed what we’ve known for awhile, that James Comey was fired because of the Russia investigation.

Rudy Giuliani threw a live grenade into the middle of the Stormy Daniels affair last night, and he’s made things much, much worse for his client.

It’s been 441 days since Donald Trump held a full-fledged Presidential press conference. Does anyone care?

Republicans are worried about 2018, and they’re even more worried that they have a President who is refusing to acknowledge political reality.

The United States is apparently looking to Libya as a guide for upcoming talks with North Korea. The DPRK most likely sees the fate of that nation and its leader as a warning.

Andrew Sullivan wonders, “Will there always be an England?”

Instead of attending the White House Correspondents Association Dinner last night, Donald Trump took his show on the road where he continued his long-standing attacks on the press. Unfortunately, it’s a message that resonates with his supporters.

As has often been the case, the White House Correspondent’s Dinner is arousing some degree of controversy, mostly because of the comedy or lack thereof.

President Trump may be looking to push Chief of Staff John Kelly aside by giving him a next to impossible job.

Republicans joined with Democrats to advance a bill to protect Special Counsel Robert Mueller, but it’s unlikely to go anywhere beyond that.

French President Emmanuel Macron predicts, correctly, that President Trump will pull out of the nuclear deal with Iran for the worst possible reasons. This will be a disaster for America’s national interests.

French President Emmanuel Macron is in the U.S. hoping to lobby President Trump to keep the United States in the nuclear deal with Iran. He’s got his work cut out for him.

Hillary Clinton isn’t running for anything in 2018, but that isn’t stopping Republicans from running against her.

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

Republicans on Capitol Hill and in positions of power are slavishly backing their President over their country. They should be ashamed.

Barbara Bush, only the second woman in history to be the wife and mother of a U.S. President, has died at the age of 92.

Sean Hannity was Michael Cohen’s “secret client,” but it’s not clear that should matter to anyone.

Republicans have been hoping that the tax bill passed in December would help them in the midterms. That’s appearing to be less and less likely by the day.

The Editorial Board of the Newspaper of Record urges Congressional Republicans to steady themselves for a constitutional crisis.

Hang on, the ride on the Trump Train is about to get a lot bumpier.

Not surprisingly, a joint Senate Committee failed to really lay a glove on Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg at yesterday’s hearing.

Controversies involving Jimmy Kimmel and “The Simpsons” highlight a perennial question.

After eight months in office, the pressures on Chief of Staff John Kelly continue to mount under a President who cannot be controlled and whose behavior will not change.

President Trump won’t attend nerd prom again this year. That’s a good thing.