Outside the Beltway

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.

New evidence indicates that the same Russian backed bots and trolls that sought to influence the 2016 election are now attempting to exploit the social divisions raised by the N.F.L. players kneeling during the National Anthem.

Just how far should White House staffers and civil servants go in protecting the public from an erratic president?

Author Sam Anderson puts forward a rather strange hypothesis in Politico.

Washington said farewell to John McCain today in a service that both remembered his spirit and his heroism, and stands as a sharp rebuke to what politics has been reduced to in America today.

In his final words to his fellow Senators, and to his fellow Americans, Senator John McCain left a legacy, and a challenge.

One year after Charlottesville, it’s clear that President Trump still doesn’t understand what happened there, or that he just doesn’t care.

Jon Huntsman, the U.S. Ambassador to Russia, is rejecting calls that he should resign in the wake of what everyone seems to agree was a disastrous summit meeting with Vladimir Putin.

Recent polling finds that Americans aren’t feeling quite so patriotic right now. It’s understandable, but we shouldn’t give up hope.

Trump’s withdrawal of his invitation to the Philadelphia Eagles is just another example of his populistic nationalism. (And it isn’t healthy).

Donald Trump’s approach to international trade has nothing to with economics and everything to do with politics and the culture war he loves to provoke.

Most Americans disagree with Trump on the N.F.L. National Anthem protests, but Republicans are behind him.

President Trump waded back into the National Anthem debate when he revoked the invitation of the Philadelphia Eagles to come to the White House today.

Donald Trump may or may not be racist himself, but he has most certainly exploited and helped widen racial divisions ever since bursting on the political scene in 2015.

Conservatives claim to support freedom of speech and freedom of expression, but they’ve utterly failed that test when it comes to their reaction to players who peacefully and respectfully kneel during the National Anthem.

President Trump’s response to the N.F.L.’s new National Anthem policy is as narrow-minded and divisive as you’d expected it to be.

The N.F.L. has come up with a dumb “solution” to a non-existent problem.

61 percent of Americans have a favorable impression of a man who left office a failed president.

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.

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

In a healthy democracy we need not agree, nor must we finally even respect one another’s objects of devotion.  But we should exercise a salutary measure of mutual forbearance and be willing to acknowledge that no side has a monopoly on either truth or justice.

Federal Courts continue to rule against the Administration, and the President continues to lash out at Judges and demonstrate his contempt for the Rule Of Law.

Vice-President Pence left an Indianapolis Colts game early in what was obviously a cynical pre-planned publicity stunt.

A new poll shows, unsurprisingly, that the vast majority of Americans see Donald Trump as a divider rather than a uniter

President Trump continues his war on one of the most important guardians of American democracy.

Sad news about a Washington stalwart.

Symbols shape our views of the past.

The 117 CIA officers who have died in our service should not be used to score cheap political points.

A speech traditionally used to unite was instead a continuation of a divisive campaign.

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.

Godspeed, John Glenn.

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

Mike Pence’s night at the theater included a message from the cast. Good for them.

David Brooks thinks American politics “Could get ugly” before the ship gets righted.

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.

The tributes to the troops you see during N.F.L. games were most likely bought and paid for with your tax dollars.

Even for political junkies, the thrill seems to be gone.

A new poll shows that Americans don’t buy into the idea of “American exceptionalism” as much as they used to. That’s a positive development rather than a negative one.

Some surveys suggest that younger Americans are less patriotic than older generations.

The I Am The Captain Of The Farm Edition OTB Caption Contest^TM is now over.

Polarization is not the cause of our problems.

In a new interview, Edward Snowden explains his motives for absconding from the country with NSA secrets.

The most important leader to come out of Africa in the 20th Century, and perhaps in all of history, has died.

Would House Republicans really defer from voting on a Syria resolution to prevent embarrassing the President on the world stage?

Virginia Tech English prof Steven Salaita implores us to “Stop saying ‘support the troops.'”