Outside the Beltway

AT&T’s acquisition of DirecTV and TimeWarner is forcing price hikes that are driving customers away at a rapid clip.

New Jersey Senator Cory Booker is the latest entrant into the race for the 2020 Democratic Nomination.

The Trump Administration either doesn’t realize the impact the shutdown is having on Federal workers who haven’t been paid in a month, or it doesn’t care.

Wearing Donald Trump’s famous campaign symbol creates a presumption of ill intent. Is that fair?

President Trump has backed down in his showdown with Speaker Pelosi over the State of the Union Address, but that does nothing to bring us closer to a resolution of the government shutdown.

President Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un will meet again in February, but it’s hard to see why.

Thoughts on politics and constitutional powers.

A new report raises an old question that’s now irrelevant.

As the government shutdown continues, Washington is coming to resemble a fight between toddlers. Except the toddlers have the excuse of not knowing any better.

Nancy Pelosi is “suggesting” to the President that the State of the Union be rescheduled for a time after the government shutdown ends, but it clearly seems like more than just a suggestion.

RIP, Dolly.

After twenty-five days, there’s no end in sight to the Federal Government shutdown. You can thank the President for that.

President Trump is claiming he never said Mexico would directly pay for the wall, except for all those times when he said Mexico would directly pay for the wall.

Carlos Sanchez, who portrayed Juan Valdez the unofficial ambassador of Colombian coffee for some 30 years, has died at the age of 83.

President Trump’s speech on the border wall and the shutdown was fact-free, misleading, and overall a bomb.

As the shutdown drags on, Republicans are beginning to fear that members in the House and Senate may begin to fall away from supporting the President.

One-half of a pop music icon in the 70’s, the Captain has passed away.

In his annual message, Kim Jong Un sent a message to President Trump on denuclearization and the future of the Korean Peninsula.

That’s not how it works.

As 2018 draws to a close, there’s no sign that the government shutdown will end any time soon.

The damage done for Mickey Mouse in the name of Sony Bono is finally coming to an end.

Fifty years ago tonight, one of the most iconic photos in history was taken.

The Pentagon is being ordered to draw up plans to withdraw roughly one-half of the American forces remaining in Afghanistan. It’s about time.

The North Korean government is making clear what it means when it speaks of denuclearization, and its far different from what the United States means.

As expected, Bill Cosby’s lawyers have filed an appeal of his conviction earlier this year on sexual assault charges.

French President Emmanuel Macron made several concessions to the Yellow Vest protesters but it remains to be seen if this will be enough to quell the protests.

While often portrayed as left-leaning, the public broadcaster is ruthlessly capitalistic in its labor practices.

French authorities are investigating reports that Russian interference may be helping to exploit and expand the five-week-old “yellow vest” protests.

A fifty-year-old song is getting new scrutiny in the wake of the #MeToo movement.

Moscow continues using information warfare to sow division in Western society.

Protests that have killed four and injured hundreds have been rewarded and show no sign of ending.

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

The continued problem cause by a lack of shared reality.

As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly.

Forty years ago tonight, the Star Wars universe came to television in a production so bad that it makes Jar Jar Binks seem positively Shakespearean by comparison.

Now that the election is over, President Trump and his sycophants in the right-wing media seem to have completely forgotten about the “invading” “caravan” of Central American asylum seekers.

A Federal Judge in Washington ruled that the White House acted improperly when it arbitrary revoked CNN reporter Jim Acosta’s press pass.

While the outcome in the Florida Governor’s Race is clear, the Senate race remains up in the air and headed for a hand recount that, in the end, is unlikely to change the outcome of the race.

Losing the midterms is not going over well with the President.

Michelle Obama can’t forgive Donald Trump for his role in spreading the racist birther conspiracy. I can’t say I blame her.

Thirteen people, including eleven civilians, a Sheriff’s Deputy, and the gunman, are dead after a shooting at a bar in California.

While the numbers seem to show that scandal-plagued Senator Bob Menendez will win re-election on Tuesday, national Democrats aren’t taking any chances.

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

Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper’s name may be unfamiliar, but he’s looking to change that.

Overwhelmingly, legal experts agree that President Trump is wrong about birthright citizenship and the Fourteenth Amendment.

President Trump wants to send more troops than we have in Syria and Iraq combined to the border to deal with a non-existent threat.

President Trump is now claiming he will end birthright citizenship for the children of undocumented immigrants via Executive Order. He clearly lacks the authority to do this.

At least eight people are dead in a mass shooting at a Pittsburgh synagogue.