Outside the Beltway

With the Administration’s six-month point approaching, Donald Trump continues to lag in the polls.

Donald Trump is the most unpopular incoming President in more than eighty years.

The Supreme Court has ruled that the Federal Government cannot deny trademark protection because a requested trademark is “disparaging” to a racial or ethnic group.

President Trump took to Twitter again this morning and promptly shot himself in the foot.

Donald Trump’s first overseas trip went about as badly as you’d expect it would.

A legendary statesman has passed.

The Administration suffers another defeat in defense of its effort to ban Muslim immigrants.

A night of carnage and depravity in the United Kingdom.

Iranian voters have re-elected Hassan Rouhani, a relative moderate whose election in 2013 was largely responsible for the shifts in policy that made the international agreement regarding Iran’s nuclear research program possible.

Last week was one of the worst week’s the still-young Trump Administration has faced, and new tracking poll data is starting to reflect that.

America’s longest war is still going on, and President Trump’s advisers want him to continue his predecessor’s policies of continuing to re-expand American forces in a war that has seemingly no end.

A majority of Americans support last week’s airstrikes in Syria but are skeptical of any expansion beyond that.

It’s not at all clear that there is a useful strategy at work here.

Despite American air strikes, ISIS is expanding its power amid the chaos in Libya.

Just about two months into office, Donald Trump’s job approval number are worse than any newly elected President since World War II.

It may well be that the 25th Amendment, not the impeachment clause, will be his undoing.

Two more losses for the Trump Administration.

Rex Tillerson, “the phantom of Foggy Bottom.”

President Trump has issued a revised ban on travel from six predominantly Muslim nations.

The announcement of a new Muslim travel ban Executive Order has been delayed once again.

Budget hawks in the GOP face a showdown with Donald Trump’s spending ambitions this year that will likely decide whether we’ll ever get spending under control.

President Trump has actually made a good pick for National Security Adviser. As with the rest of his foreign policy team, though, the question is if he’ll listen to him.

For seventy-seven minutes yesterday, President Trump held forth in a press conference that confirmed the most dire predictions about what he’d be like as President.

With two votes last night, President Trump’s Cabinet is coming together.

Another judicial slap at the Trump Administration.

Two new polls show that most Americans oppose President Trump’s ban on travel from seven majority Muslim countries, but that most Republicans support it.

An initial setback for the Federal Government in its appeal of the ruling putting President Trump’s Muslim travel ban on hold.

A legal victory, at least for now, for opponents of Donald Trump’s ban on immigration from seven majority Muslim nations.

Today in “Alternative Facts.”

In a closer than normal vote for the position, Rex Tillerson has been confirmed as Secretary of State.

The first day of implementation of President Trump’s order barring immigration from certain Muslim nations did not go smoothly for the Administration.

As expected, Donald Trump yesterday signed Executive Orders targeting Muslims and refugees.

The 117 CIA officers who have died in our service should not be used to score cheap political points.

A potentially controversial commutation from President Obama today.

Trump’s populism, personalism, and irresponsibility are on display.

A controversial member of George W. Bush’s foreign policy team is up for a post in Donald Trump’s State Department.

One professor is suggesting that Bernie Sanders played a role in 2016 similar to the one that Ralph Nader did in 2000. It doesn’t pass even cursory examination.

A surprising name is emerging as the likely pick for the nation’s top diplomatic position.

My predictions for the House and Senate.

Even if you’re not sure who you should vote for, it’s obvious who you shouldn’t vote for.

I’ve been something of a political news junkie for 40 years now. This year has burned me out.

According to reports, Vice-President Biden is on a Clinton campaign short list for Secretary of State.