Outside the Beltway

The numbers should guide policy, not silly symbols.

With the economy appearing to sour, Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin is quickly becoming the President’s latest target of criticism.

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

There was no progress on resolving the government shutdown today, and little hope that anything will happen before late next week.

While the political media is spending a lot of time talking about it, the actual impact of this latest government shutdown is likely to be limited and possibly even unnoticeable to most Americans.

The government entered its third shutdown of the year with little sign of an immediate resolution.

In what clearly appears to be a rebuke of the President, Defense Secretary James Mattis is retiring as Secretary of Defense.

Hours before the House was set to vote on a temporary funding bill for the government, President Trump has apparently changed his mind.

As Washington heads into the final days of a budget shutdown, Republicans find themselves on the losing end of a public relations battle.

Once again, President Trump is threatening a shutdown over the border wall that Mexico was supposed to pay for.

This month’s budget fight is likely the last chance the President will have to get any funding for his border wall.

Current attempts to take power away from the state executive branch illustrates a lot of what I have been writing about for years.

Defense Secretary James Mattis has announced that the deployment of U.S. troops to the Mexican border will be extended through the end of this year.

A brewing fight over funding for the President’s border wall could throw a monkey wrench into plans to pass a budget by next Friday.

A decade after being bailed out by the Federal government, the giant automaker is slashing jobs.

A bad look for all concerned.

Yes, there can be real problems with election activities, but that does not excuse POTUS’ lies about fraud.

Now that the election is over, President Trump and his sycophants in the right-wing media seem to have completely forgotten about the “invading” “caravan” of Central American asylum seekers.

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.

Last week, the Mexican Supreme Court pushed that country further down the road toward legalization of marijuana for all purposes.

One hundred years after the end of World War One, the forces that led to it are waking up from a long slumber.

My latest for The National Interest.

On Tuesday, Michigan joined the ranks of the states where marijuana is legal and several other states legalized it for medical purposes.

Whether as candidates or as voters, Democrats can thank women for many of their victories on Tuesday.

Donald Trump’s lies became even more frequent during the recently-concluded campaign season.

In addition to winning back the House, Democrats also made gains in Governor’s races.

As expected, the midterm elections ended up being a split result that gives Democrats and Republicans alike reason to celebrate.

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

When do we stop pretending that Fox News Channel is anything other than State Run Media for the Trump Administration?

Faced with the probability of losses today, President Trump is already getting ready to blame everyone but himself.

In addition to being mandated by the Constitution, birthright citizenship goes to the core of what it means to be an American.

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

Anti-Semitic violence has increased markedly over the past two years. So has the spread of far-right “anti-Globalist” conspiracy theories. This is not a coincidence.

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.

President Trump wants to send more troops than we have in Syria and Iraq combined to the border to deal with a non-existent threat.

President Trump is now claiming he will end birthright citizenship for the children of undocumented immigrants via Executive Order. He clearly lacks the authority to do this.

The blatant stoking of irrational fear as campaign politics.

The vise is tightening on the Catholic Church.

Marijuana is now legal in Canada, and many people are watching the country to see how it adjusts to this change.

Donald Trump is a coward and an apologist for evil around the world.

One of the people most responsible for the personal computer revolution has passed away at the far-too-young age of 65.

After nearly a year, Trump’s trade policies are having their inevitable negative impact inside the United States.

President Trump is choosing money and moral cowardice over human life in his response to the disappearance of Jamal Khashoggi.

President Trump got his revised version of NAFTA, but Canadians are less positive about the United States than they have been in at least twenty years.

After placing limits on the scope of the F.B.I.’s reopened background investigation of Judge Brett Kavanaugh, the White House has relented and is allowing a more open-ended investigation.

Thanks to a last-minute agreement, the United States and Canada reached an agreement for a revised version of NAFTA. It’s a got a new name, but it’s basically NAFTA 2.0.

President Trump is once again threatening to lower the tariff hammer on one of America’s most reliable allies and biggest trading partners.