Outside the Beltway

Lizbeth Mateo, an attorney and immigrant rights activist, will serve on a California board helping disadvantaged students.

The Federal Government has fired another shot in the ongoing war over so-called “sanctuary cities.”

The chairman of the White House Council of Economic Advisors is out after failing to convince the boss not to impose tariffs.

The circumstantial case for corruption by Kushner is growing.

He did what many had thought humanly impossible in running a sub-4 minute mile in 1954 and followed that with a brilliant career in medicine.

The President provided a contender for most ignorant tweet this morning, as he makes a proposal that would disrupt the global economy.

The Supreme Court is being asked to decide whether an American company can be required to turn over data stored on servers located overseas.

This is very much why the security clearance process requires so much financial disclosure.

Mexico’s President canceled a visit to the United States for the second time since Donald Trump became President due to a continued disagreement over who will pay for Trump’s border wall.

Presidents are much more constrained in issuing and rolling back regulations than they or the public think.

The prospects for extending legal protections for DACA beneficiaries are getting grimmer by the day.

The prospect for a fix to help DACA beneficiaries is looking gloomier than ever.

The Judge presiding over a case dealing with Trump’s proposed border wall expressed doubts about the project. The President will no doubt be irked by the identity of that Judge.

President Trump is reportedly considering replacing his chief of staff. Again.

A new poll indicates that most Americans support a DACA deal, but don’t think it should be linked to measures to avoid a government shutdown.

Congress seems no closer to a DACA deal than they were in January.

Will Joe Arpaio cause the GOP to lose an otherwise winnable Senate race?

The President talked about national unity last night, but given his own rhetoric as a candidate and as a President, it’s a call that seems to be hypocritical.

The White House’s immigration plan is facing opposition in both chambers of Congress from moderate and conservative Republicans alike.

And a little Electoral College for good measure.

President Trump has alienated America’s allies and friends, and they are acting accordingly.

Getting to a DACA deal isn’t going to be easy.

Just over one year after President Trump’s foolish and ill-informed decision to withdraw from the Trans-Pacific Partnership Canada has stepped in to rescue the deal.

The GOP’s potential troubles in 2018 don’t just exist at the Congressional level.

Controversial former Sheriff Joe Arpaio is running for Senate in Arizona.

North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un is extending an olive branch of sorts to South Korea while simultaneously claiming success in achieving a nuclear deterrent.

Fixing long term shifts in manufacturing isn’t easy.

Donald Trump’s foreign policy has been erratic, illogical, and demonstrated a clear disdain for diplomacy.

Big problems for the Air Force.

The Washington Post exposes another James O’Keefe fraud.

Republicans have a Donald Trump problem, and they can’t run away from it.

Notwithstanding overwhelming public support, Congress is not moving forward on a proposal to ban bump stocks.

The shooter in the Texas church shooting was apparently able to get his weapons because the Air Force failed to report his domestic violence conviction.

Another mass shooting.

Donald Trump has apparently made the American public more supportive of players who kneel for the National Anthem.

Donald Trump’s entire modus operandi involves pushing divisive cultural hot buttons.

Yet another lawsuit against yet another controversial Trump Administration policy.

Commerce Department figures report a measurable drop in international travel to the United States since the start of 2017.

The Trump Administration has been hit with two new lawsuits over the President’s decision to end the DACA program.

Trump makes a DACA deal, apparently.

More foreign policy amateurism.

Trump isn’t going to win any regional popularity awards in LA.

Winning was easy.  Legislating is hard.

Donald Trump is threatening to shut the government down if Congress doesn’t pay for the wall that Mexico was supposed to pay for.

Three new polls show Trump’s job approval down significantly in the three states that put him over the top in the Electoral College last year.

Who could have predicted we would be where we are at the moment in terms of racial politics and the White House?