Outside the Beltway

Ebola is making a reappearance in Central Africa.. Will the world be better prepared this time?

A small group of Republican rebels in the House are attempting to push legislation protecting DACA beneficiaries to a floor vote. Unfortunately, they’re not likely to succeed.

Rudy Giuliani is basically now suggesting that his client would be willing to set off a Constitutional crisis that would make Watergate seem like a picnic.

The prosecutor who came to national prominence jumping on the #MeToo bandwagon has now been run over by it.

Eleven states plus DC, who have 172 of the 270 electoral votes needed to elect a President, are now part of the compact.

The facts in the Stormy Daniels affair continue to move in a direction that doesn’t look good for the President.

Rudy Giuliani tried to clean up the mess he created for his client earlier this week. He failed miserably.

In addition to his admissions about the Stormy Daniels matter, Rudy Giuliani also confirmed what we’ve known for awhile, that James Comey was fired because of the Russia investigation.

A new lawsuit seeks to have the 2012 DACA program declared unconstitutional.

Rudy Giuliani threw a live grenade into the middle of the Stormy Daniels affair last night, and he’s made things much, much worse for his client.

Stormy Daniels is suing the President for defamation after he accused her of lying about a threat made to her seven years ago.

Another one of Trump’s lawyers bites the dust, and hired someone with some very specific experience.

Robert Mueller has some questions for the President, and the wide range of topic areas should worry President Trump significantly.

Andrew Sullivan wonders, “Will there always be an England?”

Solving the problems created by neighborhood-based schools isn’t going to be easy.

Michael Cohen will invoke his rights under the Fifth Amendment in response to any questions asked in discovery in the civil suit filed against him by Stormy Daniels. That’s really the only option he has.

The Trump Administration has suffered another setback in its efforts to repeal DACA.

The Democratic National Committee has filed a lawsuit alleging a wide-ranging conspiracy to influence the 2016 election. As a legal document, it appears to be little more than a political stunt.

Rudy Giuliani is joining President Trump’s legal team but it’s unclear what he actually brings to that team.

Unable to get his way with the legislature, New York’s governor is taking a provocative step.

Barbara Bush, only the second woman in history to be the wife and mother of a U.S. President, has died at the age of 92.

Donald Trump could have more to worry about regarding the investigation of Michael Cohen than he does regarding the Mueller investigation.

John Boehner is now pro-weed. The world just keeps getting weirder, man.

President Trump isn’t reacting well to the raid on his attorney’s office.

President Trump won’t attend nerd prom again this year. That’s a good thing.

Not an Easter song, exactly, but certainly evocative of some of the holiday’s major themes.

A Federal Judge In New York City is allowing a lawsuit against the President’s DACA order to go forward, and he based part of his ruling on the President’s own rhetoric.

As suspected, Cynthia Nixon is not shaping up to be much of a challenge for Andrew Cuomo.

A Federal Judge is allowing a lawsuit alleging that President Trump is improperly benefiting from business being done at the hotel in Washington, D.C. bearing his name to go forward.

The United States has joined Great Britain and much of Europe in retaliating against Russia for the attempted murder of a former Russian spy on British soil.

Not surprisingly, John Bolton has some links to particularly shady people on the right.

Organizing protests was the easy part. The hard part for those who would seek to expand gun regulations is yet to come.

Sometimes, it’s all in the framing.

A famous name enters the race to challenge Andrew Cuomo, but it’s unlikely she’ll have much of an impact.

The family real estate business made tens of millions through shady dealings.

The FBI’s former deputy director was shamefully fired late Friday night, after which President Trump gloated on Twitter.

Polls released since the Parkland, Florida shooting show that support for gun control measures is at its highest level since 1993, but will it last?

Congress is no closer to a resolution of the DACA fix than it was earlier this year.

Students across the country are staging 17-minute protests at 10 am in their time zones.

Ending an investigation that was flawed and tainted with partisanship from the start, the House Intelligence Committee has abruptly concluded its investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election.

South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham says war against North Korea would be worth it. Ignoring the fact that it would result in casualties unlike anything America has seen since the Vietnam War.

The Supreme Court has declined an invitation to intervene early in the legal arguments surrounding DACA.

A new poll suggests that Republicans would get the blame if Congress fails to pass a bill to protect DACA beneficiaries.

Billy Graham was the son of a North Carolina farmer who grew up to become a counselor to Presidents, Prime Ministers, and even a Queen.

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

Another Federal Judge has placed a hold on President Trump’s order to end DACA.

A Federal Court in New York City is set to hear argument tomorrow in a case that essentially argues that a large swath of Federal laws regarding marijuana are unconstitutional.

Of course Donald Trump wants a military parade, it would be consistent with his delusions of grandeur.

The rise of ‘car sharing’ services has greatly benefitted consumers but had a devastating effect on taxi drivers.

Embattled New Jersey Senator Bob Menendez has dodged a bullet, but still faces uncertain prospects for reelection.