Outside the Beltway

Only 28% of Americans support President Trump’s decision to back out of the Paris Accord, but it’s not clear that this will harm him politically.

President Trump is reportedly considering at least partly reversing one of the great foreign policy successes of the Obama Presidency.

Reports indicate that President Trump is preparing to fulfill a campaign promise and withdraw the U.S. from the accord on climate change reached in Paris in 2015.

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

With a government shutdown looming at the end of the week, the Administration has appeared to back away from a demand that a government funding bill include money allocated for the President’s promised border wall.

Donald Trump seems to be surprised that being President requires actual work.

So far, there’s no sign that Donald Trump is having much of an impact on the economy.

Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke suggests building Trump’s Wall on Mexican territory.

Justin Trudeau’s Liberal Party is set to follow through on a campaign promise.

I am going to construct a complicated mathematical model of the economy, and then I’m going to calibrate it using some actual data, and in the end I will be able to tell everyone how much better or worse off they are given various changes in the economy. And it will be totally and completely true. Trust me, it’s math and therefore science.

Trump’s attempt to fix the balance of trade will almost surely end up leaving us all worse off.

Travel industry experts are reporting a noticeable drop in international travel and tourism since Donald Trump was elected President.

White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer hinted that the Federal Government may stop giving deference to states that have legalized marijuana.

The Washington State Supreme Court has ruled against a florist who refused to provide services for a same-sex wedding.

All the effects of a wall, given its cost, needs to be taken into consideration.

Technology continues to make more and more jobs unnecessary and irrelevant. And the consequences are going to be widespread.

Two Republican Senators are introducing legislation that would result in drastic reductions in the number of people allowed into the country legally.

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.

Yet another example of why Trump and his views on Trade and the economy are contradictory and even incoherent. Not only should Trump be building his Great Trump Wall™ in Mexico he should be furiously working against any and all foreign investment in the U.S.

As with so many things, the President is demonstrating that he really doesn’t know what he is doing.

Yet more incoherent economic policy from the Tweeter in Chief. A border tax will mean that Americans will undoubtedly pay for at least part of the Great Wall of Trump™.

The Great Wall of Trump™ is almost surely going to be a disaster, the question remains how big of a disaster will it be.

Nice work, Mr. President.

Trump’s tweet may have been casual bluster posted while sitting at the breakfast table (presumably eating Wheaties®—The Breakfast of Champions). We can’t know. And finally it matters not because what really matters is that it was taken at face value by President Peña Nieto.

Once again, Donald Trump has played his supporters for suckers.

In a break with President-Elect Trump, Speaker of the House Paul Ryan said Congress would block any effort to increase tariffs.

Public defenders in New Mexico are overworked, underfunded, and outmatched, but then that’s true pretty much everywhere in the country.

Concepts, basic applications, and even a bibliography! Merry Festivus, everyone.

Three of the top four national security positions in Donald Trump’s Cabinet will be filled by retired Generals. This isn’t necessarily a good thing.

Donald Trump resurrects an old debate and desecrates the Constitution in the process.

One of the Cold War era’s last dictators has finally died.

Trump backs away from yet another campaign promise.

A Federal Judge has dismissed a lawsuit that tried to make an end-run around the Senate and put Merrick Garland on the Supreme Court.

With just one day to go, Clinton’s paths to victory continue to look far more realistic than Donald Trump’s.

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

It has become necessary to destroy the party in order to save it.

A look at the Electoral College shows that It is far more likely that Hillary Clinton will win the election than that Donald Trump will.

With just over three weeks before Election Day, efforts by top Republicans to disavow their party’s nominee are quite clearly too little, too late.

Donald Trump appears to be pushing voters from America’s fastest growing minority group into the Democratic camp.

Gary Johnson is doing better than any third-party candidate in twenty years, but that doesn’t mean he’s likely to get an invitation to the upcoming Presidential debates.

Apparently, even people who support Donald Trump don’t believe his claim that he can get Mexico to pay for his border wall.

Libertarian Party Presidential candidate Gary Johnson doesn’t get much national press attention, and it doesn’t help when he flubs an answer like he did this morning.

It’s the traditional start of the campaign season, and the race for President is getting close, at least at the national level.

A Trump surrogate warns of a “taco truck on every corner” if Trump loses. That sounds like more of a promise than a threat if you ask me.