Outside the Beltway

Hatred and violence in Charlottesville, Virginia.

Things are getting far more complicated on the Korean Peninsula. Diplomacy isn’t working, and a military option would most likely lead to disaster.

Once again, Donald Trump has taken to Twitter to attack women, embarrass himself, and embarrass the nation he purports to represent.

President Trump took to Twitter again this morning and promptly shot himself in the foot.

Hillary Clinton is blaming everyone she can for her loss, except the most obvious suspects.

A legendary statesman has passed.

In Fox News Channel’s America, Donald Trump can do no wrong and Hillary Clinton is still a threat.

Instead of attending the White House Correspondents Association Dinner, Donald Trump spent his Saturday attacking the press and the First Amendment.

States are considering laws that would require candidates for President to release their tax returns, but such laws are probably unconstitutional.

More evidence of ties between the Trump campaign and Russian interests.

Rachel Maddow hyped the fact that she had obtained a copy of Trump’s 2005 tax return last night. It turned out to be much ado about nothing.

Iowa Congressman Steve King is causing controversy yet again with his comments in support of far-right Dutch politician Geert Wilders.

Another day, another round of reports about contacts with Russian officials and people close to President Trump.

The Trump Administration is continuing, and indeed expanding, its war on a free press.

There are two sides in this war between Trump and the media, but only one of them is the right side.

An unsurprising ‘resignation’ from the shortest-serving National Security Adviser in history.

Judge Gorsuch isn’t much of a fan of Donald Trump’s comments about the judiciary.

Today in “Alternative Facts.”

The Yes, We Done. Edition OTB Caption Contest^TM is now over.

While vigilance is called for, America will survive Donald Trump just as it has survived everything else we’ve faced since the nation’s founding.

In the wake of the Democratic victory in the North Carolina Governor’s race, the Republican-controlled legislature has stripped the Governor’s office of significant power.

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

Trump backs away from yet another campaign promise.

The final debate of 2016 didn’t draw as many viewers as the first Hillary v. Donald match-up, but it still drew a respectable number.

Viewership for the second debate fell some twenty percent from the first debate, but that doesn’t necessarily mean that voter are losing interest.

Judging 2016 by historical standards hasn’t worked out well thus far.

Donald Trump’s campaign is apparently finally acknowledging reality, although its claim that birtherism originated with the Clinton campaign in 2008 does not comport with the facts.

Donald Trump’s admiration and praise for the dictatorial leader of Russia should be sufficient reason to disqualify him from being President of the United States.

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.

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.

Despite being much more conveniently located for viewers in the United States, viewership for the just-concluded Olympics were the lowest they’ve been in sixteen years.

A precursor to modern cable political news with an interesting past has passed away at the age of 89.

Donald Trump has spent more time recently attacking the news media than anything else. He ought to be condemned for it.

Big change at America’s most-watched cable news network.

As the allegations of sexual harassment grow, reports are also growing that Roger Ailes may be out at Fox News much sooner than many may have anticipated.

Another targeted killing aimed at police.

If the allegations of a new lawsuit are true, things are truly lurid behind the scenes at Fox News Channel.

The presumptive Democratic nominee for president won’t be going to jail. But we knew that.

A true legend in legal journalism is moving on.

Bernie Sanders doesn’t seem to realize that the political world has already moved past the race for the Democratic nomination.

Republican leaders and politicians continue to distance themselves from their party’s presumptive nominee.

Senator Elizabeth Warren is the latest Democrat to unite behind the party’s presumptive nominee. A marked contrast to the chaos that reigns on the Republican side of the aisle.

For the second election cycle in a row, and after a contentious floor fight, former New Mexico Governor Gary Johnson is the Libertarian Party’s nominee for President.

The Clinton campaign probably thought the email story was behind them. The new report from the State Department’s Inspector General shows just how wrong they were about that.

Several recent polls have shown the race between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton tightening, but it likely means far less than the media hype makes it sound like.

Donald Trump takes opposition to abortion to a new, extreme, level.

Advisers? Donald Trump doesn’t need no stinkin’ advisers.