Outside the Beltway

The Russia investigation seems to be getting closer to the Oval Office.

The evidence that President Trump fired James Comey in an effort to quash the Russia investigation continues to mount.

Last week was one of the worst week’s the still-young Trump Administration has faced, and new tracking poll data is starting to reflect that.

The President is being fed “news” from questionable news sources, and that’s a problem.

There seems to be no question that the decision to fire James Comey was motivated largely by the President’s frustrations over the fact that his campaign is under investigation.

Less than a week after revealing that the F.B.I. was investigating the Trump campaign regarding ties with Russia, F.B.I. Director James Comey has been fired by President Trump.

After starting the year with two good months, the jobs report for March was quite disappointing.

After just sixty-six days, there are some disturbing patterns emerging from the Trump Administration.

A major legislative defeat for Paul Ryan, the House GOP, and President Trump.

The Trump Administration has issued an ultimatum, but the fate of the American Health Care Act is still very much up in the air.

With a vote tentatively scheduled for this evening, House Republicans appear to lack the votes to pass the American Health Care Act.

More evidence of ties between the Trump campaign and Russian interests.

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

More conflicts of interest for the Trump Administration.

Whether you call it TrumpCare, RyanCare, or GOPCare, the Republican replacement for the PPACA isn’t very impressive.

A new Pentagon proposal would place more discretion in the hands of field commanders, removing the need for Presidential approval.

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

White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer hinted that the Federal Government may stop giving deference to states that have legalized marijuana.

For seventy-seven minutes yesterday, President Trump held forth in a press conference that confirmed the most dire predictions about what he’d be like as President.

The story about the Trump campaign’s ties to Russia didn’t start with Michael Flynn, and it isn’t going to end with his resignation.

An unsurprising ‘resignation’ from the shortest-serving National Security Adviser in history.

Could National Security Adviser Michael Flynn be the first to go under Trump?

Donald Trump is turning out to be a man uniquely obsessed with appearances, and it’s impacting his entire Administration.

Today in “Alternative Facts.”

The Acting Attorney General was fired last night after announcing that she would refuse to defend President Trump’s Executive Order on immigration. As a result she was fired. Contrary to some arguments, this was not improper.

Despite campaign promises, President Trump appears to be putting off any immediate decision on the location of the U.S. Embassy to Israel.

The first full day of Donald Trump’s Presidency consisted largely of obsessions with irrelevant facts and outright lies.

For better or worse, the third Presidential debate will largely be remembered for one thing.

The GOP civil war continues…..

Paul Ryan is declining to back Donald Trump for the time being, but other Republicans are making their own choices.

There are many aspects of the way delegates to the party convention are chosen that is “undemocratic,” but it’s unclear why this is a problem.

It looks like we’ve reached the end of the debate schedule for Republicans in 2016 .

Representatives from most of the Republican Presidential campaigns met to discuss reforms to the debate process, but none of their ideas will actually improve the quality of debates.

Donald Trump is threatening to boycott the next Republican debate if there aren’t format changes. The GOP should call his bluff.

Carly Fiorina will most likely be excluded from CNN’s prime time debate in September, so of course her campaign is complaining about rules that were established months ago.

The Republican debate stage in 2016 is going to be even more crowded than it was in 2012.

Public Relations 101: When you have a job in public relations, don’t say stupid things.

As expected, President Obama’s latest “pivot” to the economy is less than meets the eye.