Outside the Beltway

An increasingly undemocratic regional power is a necessary but unreliable partner.

Is a threat in the eye of the receiver or the issuer?

They went all-in on the Big Lie and we now have the receipts that they knew what they were doing.

The President is tired of all the fake news.

Donald Trump isn’t just admiring dictators now, he’s acting like one.

A Federal Judge in Washington has dismissed a lawsuit filed by the DNC alleging a conspiracy between the Trump campaign and Russia during the 2016 election.

Joe Biden delivered his first major foreign policy address of the campaign. It’s not perfect, but it’s better than what we have right now.

Is it possible, or even appropriate, to express pride in a country that is being led by a President who stands against everything this country stands for?

Whether he knows it or not, Donald Trump is assisting the Russian leader in his goal of undermining the foundational institutions of democracy and freedom.

Polls are starting to show that the number of Republicans embarrassed by the President’s rhetoric and behavior is rising. Sorry guys, it’s too late now. You broke it, you bought it.

Four years ago, Donald Trump began his campaign for President. What has followed has been as bad as could have been predicted that day.

Donald Trump has betrayed the legacy and the sacrifices of the soldiers who fought their way onto the beaches of Normandy.

Justin Amash’s call for impeachment of the President, and the Republican Party’s reaction to it, is telling us a lot about the current state of the GOP.

Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has been indicted on seventeen counts under the Espionage Act arising out of his role in the Chelsea Manning affair.

Justice Clarence Thomas argues that a 55-year-old precedent should be overturned.

A particularly appalling case of press censorship from Australia.

An effort by the Federal Government to prosecute Wikileaks founder Julian Assange raises serious First Amendment issues.

The White House and CNN have settled the dispute over Jim Acosta’s press pass, but future conflict between this Administration and the press corps seems inevitable.

Despite a court ruling that says otherwise, the Trump White House appears prepared to once again revoke the press pass of CNN reporter Jim Acosta.

A Federal Judge in Washington ruled that the White House acted improperly when it arbitrary revoked CNN reporter Jim Acosta’s press pass.

CNN fires back in the Administration’s ongoing war with the news media.

President Trump is heaping praise on a Congressman who physically assaulted a reporter.

Jamal Khashoggi’s final column includes a message that should resonate far beyond the Arab world it was addressed to.

The Twenty-Fifth Amendment has been in the news a lot lately, but what would it actually take to use it to remove a President from power?

Former President Jimmy Carter is warning his party against drifting too far left as we head into the midterms and, beyond that, the 2020 campaign cycle.

Donald Trump is a bad, inept, and potentially dangerous President. That doesn’t mean that a ‘soft coup’ inside the White House is the answer to the problem he presents to our democratic republic.

The military regime in Myanmar has sentenced two reporters to prison for reporting on the repression of the Rohingya Muslims.

The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette’s editorial cartoonist is out after twenty-five years.

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.

President Trump continues his unhinged, and unsupported by facts, war on Amazon and its owner Jeff Bezos by pressuring an independent agency to raise shipping rates.

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.

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.

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

Profiles in courage? With Republicans in the Trump Era, it’s more like profiles in cowardice.

Anderson Cooper has interviewed adult film star Stormy Daniels for 60 Minutes, but lawyers for President Trump are apparently considering legal action to stop the report from airing.

China’s Xi Jinping solidified his hold on power well into the next decade over the weekend.

Last week, the President was calling for national unity. This week, he called political opponents “treasonous.”

The President talked about national unity last night, but given his own rhetoric as a candidate and as a President, it’s a call that seems to be hypocritical.

Two Republicans spoke out today against the President’s war on the news media, but don’t expect their colleagues to follow suit.

The widow of Sgt. La David Johnson spoke out about the death of her husband and the controversy over the phone call she received from President Trump. And Trump proceeded to attack her and call her a liar.

Donald Trump is continuing to up the ante in his rhetorical war against one of America’s most fundamental freedoms.

Sarah Palin’s lawsuit against The New York Times suffers a significant setback.

President Trump continues his war on one of the most important guardians of American democracy.

The dangers of the tyranny of the majority have only magnified.

Republicans now face a stark choice.

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

Yesterday, Hillary Clinton pointed out truths about Donald Trump that his fellow Republicans were too scared to point out during the primary..

Donald Trump suggests Russia engage in espionage to help his Presidential campaign.0

George Will isn’t just refusing to vote for Donald Trump, he’s leaving the GOP entirely