Outside the Beltway

The Biden Administration is constantly bragging about its actions against Russia. Is that wise?

Democrats want the DOJ to act more quickly.

Are Fauci, the CDC, and others getting a bum rap?

Trump’s last Secretary of Defense is being stymied by preclearance review.

American cheese will henceforth be known as liberté cheese. And not because of the metric system.

A pandemic and the rise of Zoom meetings unleashed an academic theory into the wild.

Thousands of centrifuges have been destroyed.

A truly chaotic combination.

Yet more flouting of the rule of law by the Trump administration.

The reporting demonstrates the uncomfortable truth.

A report outlining steps for re-opening the economy in the wake of COVID-19 has been leaked to the press.

A bold new plan for security in the Middle East.

Jeff Sessions entered the race for the GOP nomination for Senate in Alabama by heaping obsequious and pathetic praise on a man who had spent two years insulting him publicly and privately

The man who sparked the investigation into the President’s illegal conduct has been outed in a futile attempt to discredit it.

Yes, officials who follow the law are “whistleblowers.”

The past week has demonstrated more notably than any other that this President is not well.

Not surprisingly, there are other phone call transcripts and other communications that further complicate Trump’s position.

What we know for sure.

A Harvard law professor makes my case better than I did.

In a rebuke to traditional conservative views of Federalism, the Trump Administration intends to revoke California’s authority to set its own clean air standards,

The Democratic National Committee is moving to block efforts by the state parties in Iowa and Nevada to open up the caucus process to more participants, citing security issues.

Robert Mueller didn’t provide a smoking gun yesterday, but the President and his supporters are wrong to claim that the hearing vindicated the President.

The ground shook overnight in Southern California for the second time in two days.

Just fire the pollster.

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

Not surprisingly, Chelsea Manning is headed back to jail for her refusal to answer questions before a Federal Grand Jury investigating Julian Assange and Wikileaks.

A Federal Appeals Court has rejected Chelsea Manning’s bid to be released from jail notwithstanding her refusal to comply with a Grand Jury Subpoena.

It seems as if Donald Trump finally has the AG he has always wanted.

The replacement of Anthony Kennedy with Brett Kavanaugh is already having a significant impact.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is being charged with three charges of corruption even as he faces an election in just over a month.

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

As public opinion of the President continues to slide his pandering to his far-right base increases.

Roger Stone, who worked with the Trump campaign in an official and unofficial capacity throughout the campaign, has been indicted by Special Counsel Robert Mueller.

Trump doesn’t want anyone to know what he and Putin discussed.

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

The Saudi Foreign Minister expanded on his nation’s utterly implausible explanation for the death of Jamal Khashoggi

The evidence linking the Saudi Crown Prince to the murder of Jamal Khashoggi seems irrefutable.

President Trump is serving as a knowing apologist for a despotic regime.

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.

In an extraordinary anonymous Op-Ed, a senior White House official describes a White House in chaos.

A new book by legendary Washington reporter Bob Woodward appears to contain explosive revelations about the President and the operation of the White House.

The Office of Special Counsel Robert Mueller has issued indictments against twelve Russian intelligence officials for election-related hacking, and in the process has shown most of the arguments made by the President and his surrogates regarding the Russia investigation are nonsense.

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 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.

The Trump White House has leaked more than any in recent memory. Some of the leakers have explained what motivates them.

The House Intelligence Committee’s report is being touted as vindication by the Trump Administration and its supporters. It’s not.

A longtime “Hillary Beat” reporter ruminates on what she and her candidate could have done differently in 2016.

Former F.B.I, Director James Comey’s memos regarding his meeting with Donald Trump early in 2017 have been released, and they corroborate everything Comey has said about those conversations.

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

Out of the blue, President Trump plans to pardon Dick Cheney’s former Chief of Staff, but the move seems to have more to do with James Comey than it does Scooter Libby.