Outside the Beltway

Based on initial reports, Trump’s Afghanistan policy looks a lot like what we’ve seen for the past sixteen years.

Donald Trump kowtows to Vladimir Putin yet again.

Just about two weeks after being announced, the President’s proposed ban on military service by transgender troops is being challenged in Court.

After 200 days, President Trump’s job approval numbers are hitting new lows.

Trump and his underlings continue to lie, even about the most trivial of matters.

It’s not the time away from the White House that matters, it’s the hypocrisy.

Seven years of rhetoric on health care reform ended early this morning with a narrow vote on a bill that even Republicans didn’t really support.

The Joint Chiefs of Staff are making clear that President Trump’s tweets are not official policy. At least not yet.

Donald Trump is unlikely to ever be a popular President, but that may not matter.

Sad news about a Washington stalwart.

A good choice for an important position.

New polling indicates that the Affordable Care Act has gained in popularity with the American public, while Republican reform efforts are viewed overwhelmingly negatively.

The June Jobs Report was significantly better than what we saw in May but on the whole not different from what we’ve seen for the last three years or so.

Donald Trump’s Presidency is young, but he’s already on track to become the biggest liar ever to occupy the Oval Office.

No wonder they wrote it in secret and want to move quickly to a vote…

Foolishly, President Trump is rolling back part of President Obama’s opening to Cuba.

The Trump Administration will not try to stop former F.B.I. Director James Comey from testifying before the Senate Intelligence Committee on Thursday.

President Trump is reportedly considering at least partly reversing one of the great foreign policy successes of the Obama Presidency.

A Federal appellate court has ruled that a transgender student must be allowed to use the bathroom that corresponds to their gender identity.

Donald Trump’s first overseas trip went about as badly as you’d expect it would.

The President’s Son-In-Law has reportedly become a ‘focus’ of the ongoing F.B.I. investigation. That puts the President in a very awkward position.

During the campaign, Donald Trump promised to undo the nuclear weapons deal with Iran. Now his Administration is signaling that, at least for now, the deal will stay in place.

After news of the appointment of a special counsel in the Russia investigation, Donald Trump’s persecution complex was on full display.

America’s longest war is still going on, and President Trump’s advisers want him to continue his predecessor’s policies of continuing to re-expand American forces in a war that has seemingly no end.

The Jobs Report for April showed much-improved numbers from the disappointment in March.

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

The FBI Director faced a damned if you do, damned if you don’t choice.

It’s not at all clear that there is a useful strategy at work here.

Perception v. reality.

Donald Trump has basically declared war on the people who blocked the AHCA from passing last week.

Let the games begin.

Republicans in Congress are slavishly seeking to divert attention from wrongdoing by Donald Trump, or Russia.

It may well be that the 25th Amendment, not the impeachment clause, will be his undoing.

Two more losses for the Trump Administration.

More conflicts of interest for the Trump Administration.

Trump appears to undervaluing existing bureaucracies listening more to hacks and ideologues.

An unusual, if not unexpected, mass firing at the Justice Department on Friday afternoon.

The first Jobs Report for the first full month of the Trump Presidency is out, but it’s nothing to write home about.

Hawaii is the first state to challenge the Trump Administration’s revised Muslim travel ban.

Donald Trump took to Twitter again this morning with predictable results.

The Supreme Court has decided to return the case involving a transgender student’s right to use the bathroom corresponding to their gender identity to the Fourth Circuit rather than deciding it during this term.

@POTUS claims his phones were tapped by the Obama administration. At this point the evidence appears to be talk radio.

Reports indicate that President Trump will seek to increase military spending. We don’t need to, and we can’t really afford it.

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