Outside the Beltway

Senator Elizabeth Warren released a more detailed version of her ‘Medicare For All” plan late last week. It leaves much to be desired.

The economy grew an anemic 1.9% in the third quarter according to the first estimate of the state of the economy over the summer.

Apparently, the President thinks shooting people is amusing.

Not surprisingly, President Trump told Russian officials early on that he didn’t care if Russia interfered in the 2016 election.

What we know for sure.

Well that didn’t take long.

A new poll finds President Trump trailing his potential Democratic opponents by huge margins among Latino voters.

President Trump’s newest tariffs went into effect over the weekend. They’re going to hurt.

So weird.

The 10th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled last week that states cannot punish electors who fail to follow the will of the majority of voters n their state or state laws purporting to direct how they should vote.

The Trump Administration has apparently decided that it will not be providing the flu vaccine to migrants being held in facilities at the southern border.

President Trump is delaying implementation of his recently announced tariffs on Chinese goods.

Donald Trump lies with the ease that the rest of us tie our shoes. Will that fact have an impact on voters?

The only African-American Republican in the House of Representatives is retiring, and that should worry Republicans nationwide.

Another day, another mass shooting and, as is becoming all too common in this country, this one appears to have been racially motivated.

President Trump announced a new round of tariffs on Chinese goods set to take effect on September 1st Another stupid move in a very dumb trade war.

Volkswagen recently announced that it was ending production of one of its most famous and recognizable models. The last Beetle rolls off the assembly line tomorrow.

After a year of fighting, the Administration has given up on its effort to get a citizenship question on the 2020 Census.

The victory of the U.S. Women’s team in the World Cup has renewed a long-standing argument over pay equity, but the issue is far more complicated than it seems.

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

Change isn’t likely.

The latest in the wars against liberalism.

Speaker Nancy Pelosi suffered a major defeat on a signature issue.

One photograph that has gone viral is standing as a visualization of the Trump Administration’s inhumane asylum policies.

There are children being held in what amount to internment camps on the southern border under appallingly bad conditions and the President is more concerned with falsely blaming his predecessor for the problem.

With hours to go before they were set to start. the President delayed the mass deportation raids that were supposed to begin this morning.

The latest is about deportations

Trump and Iran.

The costs to the American economy of President Trump’s ill-advised trade war continue to add up.

Despite his claims, President Trump is actually deporting fewer people than were deported under former President Obama.

Not surprisingly, the President’s opening speech of the 2020 campaign was filed with lies.

President Trump’s opening rally of the 2020 campaign sounded an awful lot like a rally from 2016

While the world is largely focused on the much larger trade war with China, the United States is engaged in a similar battle with a nation that ought to be a natural ally.

Maine has become the eighth state to pass a law allowing terminally ill the choice to bring their lives to a dignified end.

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 continues to lie at a record pace. Does anyone care?

President Trump’s tariffs are having a noticeable, and negative, impact on global economies. The President doesn’t seem to care.

The President and his supporters are touting the last-minute deal with Mexico announced on Friday, but the details show there’s much less than meets the eye.

The House of Representatives passed a bill that would extend protection to DACA beneficiaries and other Dreamers, but it’s likely to die in the Senate.

The United States and Mexico reached a last-minute deal to avert tariffs that would have gone into effect on Monday. Whether the deal accomplishes anything substantive remains to be seen.

May’s Jobs Report came back with disappointing jobs growth, suggesting that the economy may be slowing down.

After coming under attack from within his own party, former Vice-President Joe Biden has changed his position on the Hyde Amendment.

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

Former Vice-President Biden has come under fire for his longtime support for the Hyde Amendment.

The GOP Senators standing up against the President’s tariffs on Mexico are being called courageous. I’m wondering what took them so long to stand up.

A new poll of Texas voters shows President Trump doing worse than expected against potential Democratic challengers. Should Republicans be worried?

The President’s foolish tariffs against Mexico are finally causing many Republican Senators to stand up against him.

A Federal Judge in Washington, D.C. dismissed a lawsuit against Trump “national emergency” to fund the border wall, but his ruling did not reach the merits of the lawsuit’s claim.

His colum in WaPo isn’t very good.

Either Trump doesn’t understand what he is talking about, or he thinks his supporters are dumb.