Outside the Beltway

The chief diplomat of the United States isn’t very diplomatic (nor informative).

It’s been quite a year, and quite a decade.

Ted Cruz is the latest Republican Senator to repeat discredited Kremlin-backed conspiracy theories about Ukrainian interference in the 2016 election.

Why mount a defense when you can go make a TV show in Ukraine?

Much like the President they obsequiously defend, Republicans have become useful idiots in Russia’s war on Western liberal democracy.

The House Intelligence Committee has released its report resulting from its investigation of the Ukraine scandal.

POTUS believes, and is propagating, a conspiracy theory.

He raises a very real problem.

Against the advice of his top military advisers, President Trump has cleared three American soldiers of war crimes, sending a horrible signal to the world and to the troops in the field.

Fear of Donald Trump and his minions is making it hard for Republicans to answer a simple question.

The longtime anchor is leaving the network, ostensibly at his request.

A Senate report alleges that the National Rifle Association allowed itself to become a Russian asset,

Fox News Channel in general, and Fox And Friends in particular, have become nothing but a propaganda network for the White House and the President.

As many expected, the initial returns from the Israeli elections are too close to call.

Sarah Huckabee Sanders has signed on with Fox News Channel to continue her career of lying on behalf of the President.

Once again, President Trump is doing Vladimir Putin’s bidding.

Even when it comes from his favorite propaganda network, Donald Trump doesn’t like bad news.

A new poll shows solid support for free trade and opposition to the President’s tariffs, suggesting strongly that Trump is losing the public relations battle on this issue.

Stories from sites like The Onion are routinely shared on social media and perceived as real news.

Protests in Hong Kong have been going on for nine weeks now, but they are reaching a point where the patience of the leaders in Beijing is being tested.

Trump’s words on Monday versus, well, almost every other time he speaks…

Jeffrey Epstein’s death by suicide has led to many legitimate questions that should be investigated. It has also led to the rise of a number of baseless conspiracy theories.

Beijing is warning protesters in Hong Kong that it’s restraint in the face of protests is not without limit. However, it has few realistic options when it comes to how far it can go.

More than half of the House Democratic Caucus has endorsed impeachment, but that’s unlikely to cause Nancy Pelosi to move off her current position.

Part 2 of 2.

While much of the talk about Robert Mueller’s testimony has focused on the Trump campaign, there was another part to his testimony that brings attention to a far more serious threat.

Starting at 8:30 a.m. this morning, the eyes and ears of Washington and much of the nation will be focus on one thing, the testimony of former Special Counsel Robert Mueller.

President Trump threatened mass immigration raids. What was delivered was far less met the eye.

On Wednesday, much of official Washington, and likely a good part of the country itself, will pause to watch what are likely to biggest hearings since the late 1980s.

How insidious talking points spread in the modern media environment.

Donald Trump returned to the campaign trail last night with another one of his red meat speeches. The analogies it causes one to draw are chilling to say the least.

The House of Representatives passed a defense spending bill that seeks to limit Presidential authority when it comes to striking Iran and aideing the Saudi war on Yemen.

A symbolic gesture sure to backfire

The Trump Administration unveiled new sanctions against Iran yesterday. They’re unlikely to accomplish the entirely unrealistic goals the President claims to have in mind.

Evidence appears to clearly established that Russia used many of the same social media efforts it used in the United States in 2016 to interfere in the recent European Parliament elections.

It’s been three months since the White House held a press briefing. Meanwhile, the President continues his unhinged attacks on the media.

A new report indicates that Russian social media trolls are involved in spreading anti-vaccination propaganda in the United States and elsewhere.

Thanks largely to anti-vaccination propaganda, the Centers for Disease Control reports that measles cases in the U.S. are at a level unseen in a quarter century.

President Trump isn’t pleased that a news network that has generally been his own personal propaganda network is reaching out to Democrats.

Back to Fed 51 and this moment in oversight: we have to remember what ambitions drive politicians.

In a recent speech, President Trump made claims about abortion that are manifestly untrue but which his pro-life supporters continue to believe.

Counter-Intelligence officials are warning that Russia is preparing another election interference campaign for the 2020 election.

Sunday’s attacks in Sri Lanka make it clear that the claim that ISIS has been defeated are nowhere close to being true.

The United States agreed to pay North Korea $2 million for “medical treatment” for Otto Warmbier. Did the Trump Administration actually pay the bill? They aren’t saying.

ISIS is claiming responsibility for Sunday’s attacks in Sri Lanka, a strong sign that the claims by the Trump Administration that it had largely defeated the group were not true.

As Democrats at the state level seek to limit the ability of parents to decline to vaccinate their children. they are facing resistance from Republican colleagues.

The mea culpas and I-told-you-so’s are rather premature.

Free expression sometimes enables horrible crimes. How does a free society deal with that tension?

Another white supremacist attack raises disturbing questions about our information environment.

Mandatory vaccination laws raise personal liberty issues that ought to be taken seriously, but in the end, public health concerns weigh heavily in favor of laws mandating vaccination.