Outside the Beltway

In his business career Donald Trump relied largely on fear and intimidation to get his way on business deals. As President, he’s finding that nobody is afraid of him.

The President’s second State of the Union began and ended with calls for unity. In between, it was filled with the divisive partisanship that has marked his Presidency.

President Trump’s detailed schedules reveal a man who doesn’t seem to spend a lot of time actually working.

The American withdrawal from the I.N.F. Treaty gives Vladimir Putin exactly what he wants.

The way we elect Presidents make it unlikely that a third-party candidate like Howard Schultz could ever actually win the the Presidency.

A WaPo data analyst gives it a shot.

Having two presidents sounds like a terrible sitcom idea. In reality, the situation is just plain terrible.

The situation in Venezuela entered a new stage yesterday as opposition leader Juan Guaidó claimed the nation’s Presidency.

As the shutdown continues, the President’s political position is becoming weaker. He doesn’t seem to care, though.

In a rare public statement, the office of Special Counsel Robert Mueller is disputing reports that the President directed Michael Cohen to lie to Congress.

Two years of Republican control of the Legislative and Executive Branches has put us back on a path toward $1 trillion budget deficits.

The Supreme Court has rejected an attempt by the Trump Administration to have an injunction against its new asylum policy lifted.

Thanks apparently to the fact that it remained unwilling to get in line behind the Trumpidians, the conservative owner of The Weekly Standard has shut the magazine down.

Eight years after it was signed into law, a Federal Judge has ruled the Affordable Care Act to be unconstitutional.

U.S. District Judge Reed O’Connor contends that a recent change in tax law unravels the basis for the Supreme Court’s upholding of Obamacare.

William Barr, who served as Attorney General under President George H.W. Bush, has been selected to replace Jeff Sessions as Attorney General.

Trump has reportedly told aides that he doesn’t really care about reports of an approaching crisis of the budget deficit and national debt because he’ll be out of office before it becomes a problem.

Honoring the 41st President cast a poor light on the 45th.

Washington said farewell to George H.W. Bush today in a service that both remembered his spirit and his heroism, and stands as a sharp rebuke to what politics has been reduced to in America today.

A nation says farewell to a war hero, public servant, former President, and great American.

Trump continues to struggle at major international meetings.

George H.W. Bush,, who served his nation as a warrior, Congressman, Ambassador, Vice-President, and President, has died at the age of 94.

President Trump’s job approval numbers continue to be worse than those of any President since the end of World War Two.

In what has to qualify as one of the most horrifying displays of moral depravity on the international stage, the Trump Administration is saying it doesn’t really care if the Saudi Crown Prince is a murderer or not.

Losing the midterms is not going over well with the President.

The next head to roll in the Trump Administration appears to be frequent Trump target DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen.

Claiming it was because of the weather President Trump chose to skip a visit to a cemetery at the site of one of the bloodiest battles involving Americans in World War One.

Florida has begun the recount process in both the Senate and Governor’s races. Where it goes from here is anyone’s guess.

President Trump’s selection to serve as Acting Attorney General does not appear to be Constitutionally authorized to serve in that position.

Somewhere, Tim Russert is smiling.

The 2018 midterms were mostly about Donald Trump. The results were idiosyncratic.

The GOP is likely to lose control of the House of Representatives tomorrow, but could this actually help Trump?

Partisan officials should not be in charge of state election processes, much less their own.

As the midterm campaign draws to a close, Donald Trump is returning to the message of xenophobia and fear that dominated his Presidential campaign.

On Wednesday Trump tweeted out a crass, dishonest ad in hopes of leveraging fear and racism as a political tool.

Overwhelmingly, legal experts agree that President Trump is wrong about birthright citizenship and the Fourteenth Amendment.

Sad news from the first woman to serve on the United States Supreme Court.

President Trump is preparing to scrap a thirty-year-old treaty that marked the beginning of the end of the Cold War. It would be a foolish mistake.

A new poll shows a decided turn toward the Democratic candidates for Governor and Senator in Florida, but it may be an outlier.

Nearly two years into Republican control of Washington, the budget deficit is headed back up.

A Federal Judge has dismissed a defamation lawsuit filed against the President

Take one name out of contention as a potential replacement for Nikki Haley at the United Nations.

Math rules.

With four weeks to go until Election Day, Donald Trump and the Republicans are continuing to stoke the divisions laid bare by the Kavanaugh nomination.

Is political satire even possible in the age of Trump?

Beto O’Rourke isn’t eager to get Barack Obama’s endorsement, but there’s a good reason why.

President Trump’s second speech to the General Assembly of the United Nations wasn’t much better than the first, but it it did get the world laughing at us.

A new Gallup poll gives the GOP its highest favorability in years.

Trumpism is a direct by-product of the poisonous populism of the Tea Party movement, and they’ve both taken over the Republican Party.

While one must give the benefit of the doubt to Ted Cruz, the Senate race in Texas is getting very interesting.