Outside the Beltway

Republicans are blindly loyal to this President in a way we have not seen before. They are likely to end up paying a price for that.

As it has since 2007, the Democratic National Committee is barring Fox News from hosting a debate featuring the party’s candidates for President.

A decade-long study once again establishes that there is no link between childhood vaccination and autism.

Measles cases in the United States are surging thanks to the lies spread by the anti-vaccination movement.

The President continues to lie at an astounding rate that only seems to be getting worse. Does anyone care?

In a two-hour rant before an adoring crowd of CPAC sycophants. President Trump displayed everything wrong with him and his Presidency.

Once again, President Trump proves that in the face of evil he is a coward and a disgrace.

Republicans face a choice in the coming days. Do they support the Constitution, or do they support Donald Trump? You can count on them making the wrong choice.

President Trump and Kim Jong Un hold their second summit in Hanoi later this week, but it’s unlikely anything significant will happen.

Saturday Night Live mocked the President’s declaration of a ‘national emergency,” which caused him to lash out on Twitter.

The American withdrawal from the I.N.F. Treaty gives Vladimir Putin exactly what he wants.

Two years into his Presidency, Donald Trump continues to set the wrong kind of records.

China has landed a probe on the far side of the Moon, the latest step forward in an aggressive Chinese push into space.

Terrorists aren’t walking across the desert to get here. Flying is so much easier.

President Trump is expected to name a former Fox News host as Ambassador to the United Nations.

Despite aggressive vaccination efforts, measles cases surged worldwide last year. You can “thank” that anti-vaccination movement.

When do we stop pretending that Fox News Channel is anything other than State Run Media for the Trump Administration?

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.

The former Governor and Presidential candidate, and current Ambassador to Russia, reveals his diagnosis of Stage One Melanoma.

On Wednesday Trump tweeted out a crass, dishonest ad in hopes of leveraging fear and racism as a political tool.

Robert Mueller’s office has referred an apparent effort to bribe women into making allegations against him to the F.B.I.

Is it too much to ask for truth about basic facts from the White House Press Secretary?

America’s tradition of unlimited free expression increases the danger of violence.

Measles cases are on the rise in Europe due to the fact that, despite all the evidence to the contrary, people still believe the lies of the anti-vaccination movement.

Jamal Khashoggi’s final column includes a message that should resonate far beyond the Arab world it was addressed to.

President Trump is serving as a knowing apologist for a despotic regime.

Those rambling campaign rally speeches the President loves to give aren’t getting the kind of coverage they used to, not even from his favorite news channel.

Hope Hicks jumps from one pro-Trump venue to another.

Yesterday’s test of the Presidential Alert system went about as planned.

The fact that American officials talked with Venezuelans plotting a coup against the government of their country is a dangerous turn of events.

President Trump is alienating our allies and making friends with dictators, and the world is responding as you might expect they would.

Senator John McCain has died at the age of 81,

Facebook, Google, and several other companies have closed down accounts associated with conspiracy theorist Alex Jones.

If President Trump’s trade war continues, it could have a serious impact on the political fortunes of President Trump and his party.

President Trump’s summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin was an even bigger disaster than anticipated.

Even if all he gets out of the Helsinki Summit is a handshake and a photograph, Vladimir Putin has already won.

Some thoughts on the Strzok hearing.

Rebutting the President’s routine prevarications merely spreads them. Is there an alternative?

Thanks to Donald Trump, the happiest man in the world right now is Vladimir Putin.

A couple weeks ago, the North Koreans made a big deal about destroying their nuclear test site. It now appears that the event the media witnessed was less than meets the eye.

The rules of American journalism haven’t caught up with the reality of this Presidency.

The President’s constant attacks on the news media are meant for a single purpose, to undermine even accurate reporting about wrongdoing in his Administration.

President Trump’s decision to violate the terms of the nuclear deal with Iran could be a turning point in relations between the United States and its most important allies, and not in a good way.

For Donald Trump and his supporters, “Fake News” means any news that doesn’t shower enough praise on him.

There are reasons to be skeptical about the dawning of a new age on the peninsula.

Instead of attending the White House Correspondents Association Dinner last night, Donald Trump took his show on the road where he continued his long-standing attacks on the press. Unfortunately, it’s a message that resonates with his supporters.

Thanks to a combination of sensationalism and outright lies, a fairly conventional story about an annual protest march in Mexico was turned into Fox News fodder that raised images of an invading army of illegal immigrants.

News anchors at dozens of local stations owned by conservative-leaning Sinclair Broadcast Group were recently required to read a script mandated by corporate headquarters, and it’s leading to some bad media coverage for Sinclair.

A proposal that has no chance of passing may harm the movement he’s seeking to help.

Supporters of Roy Moore tried to bribe the attorney for a woman accusing the former Senate candidate of sexual assault when she was just fourteen years old into repudiating his client.