Outside the Beltway

The Vietnam memorial helped heal a gaping wound. What purpose will this one serve?

A new survey shows that Americans are increasingly unable to tell the difference between fact and opinion. That’s a problem.

The crying Honduran girl who has become a symbol of a brutal policy actually is not one of its victims.

The former New York City Mayor is prepared to spend $80 million to help Democrats take back Congress this year.

Donald Trump wants Republicans to make his immigration policies the centerpiece of the midterm campaign. What could possibly go wrong?

Trump supporters seeking to justify the Trump Administration’s family separation policy are drawing a false, and baseless, equivalence between immigrant families and people who have been convicted of crimes.

Democrats have decided to move up the date of their 2020 Convention.

The old name was apparently confusing for many customers.

President Trump is at the center of controversy again after video emerged of him returning the salute of a North Korean General.

Tom Nichols draws a contrast between Republican criticisms of the last president and their defense of this one.

Trump spent much of Tuesday praising a dictator who has murdered and imprisoned millions of people. Then he returned to attacking the democratically elected leader of one of our closest allies.

Not surprisingly, Canadians aren’t very happy about President Trump’s attacks on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

Hurricane Trump hit the G-7 this weekend, and the damage it left behind will take years to clean up.

Anthony Bourdain was a renowned chef, writer, television host, and storyteller. He also suffered from demons that ultimately caught up with him.

Political columnist and commentator Charles Krauthammer has weeks to live.

Days after designer Kate Spade killed herself, depression has claimed another celebrity.

The Trump Administration’s School Safety Commission isn’t getting off to a very good start.

In what seems like an obvious response to the rise of the #MeToo movement and the cultural changes it has brought about, the Miss America pageant is making a major change.

The actions of the Trump administration are helping Russian-EU relations (to the detriment of the US).

After three years of ethical and criminal charges, Bob Menendez got a bit of a slap on the wrist from New Jersey Democrats.

Just over a week after he called it off, President Trump announced this afternoon that the June 12th Summit in Singapore was back on.

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.

The leading candidate for the GOP nomination for Tennessee’s next Governor has a unique explanation for gun violence.

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

President Trump is claiming that he didn’t fire former F.B.I. Director James Comey because of the Russia investigation, even though he admitted the exact opposite just weeks after it happened.

In an early morning Tweetstorm, President Trump said he would not have hired Jeff Sessions if he knew he’d recuse himself from the Russia investigation.

Hours after she unleashed a racist Twitter tirade, Roseanne Barr has had her show canceled by ABC. Of course, ABC knew who it was doing business with well before today.

Alex Jones is finally being called on to answer for his irresponsible lying about events like the Sandy Hook shooting.

American companies are struggling to comply with the EU’s new privacy regulation, with many outlets choosing to simply block access abroad.

Does learning that entertainers are bad people retroactively ruin their art?

Seemingly out of the blue, the June 12th summit between President Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has been canceled by the United States.

Michael Cohen once threatened The Onion because it published a satirical article about Donald Trump.

President Trump has been tweeting up a storm since Sunday, raising a question. Should we view his Tweets as the rantings of a cranky old man, or as something more serious?

The former President and First Lady have struck a first-of-its-kind agreement to produce a wide variety of content for Netflix.

The new President of the National Rifle Association has a new theory to explain mass shootings, but there’s no basis for believing it’s accurate.

Another school shooting, this time in Texas.

The inventor of New Journalism has died of unknown causes.

Rest in Peace, Lois Lane.

The Trump White House has leaked more than any in recent memory. Some of the leakers have explained what motivates them.

While longtime supporters have turned on the legendary attorney over his support of Donald Trump, he’s been astonishingly consistent.

Another data point demonstrating that a distinguished military career doesn’t preclude being an awful human being or a crackpot.

Rudy Giuliani is basically now suggesting that his client would be willing to set off a Constitutional crisis that would make Watergate seem like a picnic.

National Republicans are increasingly concerned that an upstart, racist candidate who has unleashed personal attacks on Mitch McConnell’s family will sneak through and win tomorrow’s primary to decide who will face Joe Manchin in November.

They hired Israeli Private Investigators to dig up dirt on former Obama officials, including Ben Rhodes and Colin Kahl.

The facts in the Stormy Daniels affair continue to move in a direction that doesn’t look good for the President.

Rudy Giuliani tried to clean up the mess he created for his client earlier this week. He failed miserably.

Another one of Trump’s lawyers bites the dust, and hired someone with some very specific experience.

Robert Mueller has some questions for the President, and the wide range of topic areas should worry President Trump significantly.

Israeli Prime Minister gave a speech yesterday designed to undermine the nuclear deal with Iran. The evidence was unconvincing, but the speech was really only aimed at an audience of one.