Outside the Beltway

The White House office specifically charged with advising on and developing science policy now has no staffers whatsoever.

Susan Collins hasn’t officially announced her intentions for 2020 just yet, but she looks like she’s running for re-election. If she does, she appears to be facing some political headwinds.

Michigan Congressman Justin Amash has quit a group he helped found nine years ago after they voted to condemn him for advocating for the President’s impeachment.

David Brooks joins the long line of commenters predicting the GOP’s demise.

Hours before departing the United States for a pomp and circumstance filled State Visit to the United Kingdom, President Trump sticks his foot in his mouth.

Justin Amash spoke out against the President and Attorney General. Unsurprisingly this is not being received well by his fellow Republicans.

The early frontrunner for the Democratic nomination is drawing fire from multiple fronts. It may destroy his candidacy before it begins.

A WaPo writer takes a round-about path to demonstrate the obvious.

The House of Representatives voted yesterday to block the President’s declaration of an “emergency” at the southern border. Now the matter goes to the Senate.

Maryland Governor Larry Hogan continues to sound like someone seriously considering running against Donald Trump.

Thanks mostly to it’s complete and enthusiastic embrace of Donald Trump , the Republican Party faces a bleak demographic future.

He says he won’t announce anything until after the start of 2019, but Joe Biden is sure sounding like a guy who’s running for President.

The evidence that the GOP lost the midterms because of public repudiation of President Trump is overwhelming. The GOP will either accept this and learn from it, or they will not.

Newt Gingrich has endorsed President Trump’s use of the rhetoric of Josef Stalin to attack the American news media.

Trumpism is a direct by-product of the poisonous populism of the Tea Party movement, and they’ve both taken over the Republican Party.

Just how far should White House staffers and civil servants go in protecting the public from an erratic president?

Donald Trump is a bad, inept, and potentially dangerous President. That doesn’t mean that a ‘soft coup’ inside the White House is the answer to the problem he presents to our democratic republic.

One moment at a campaign rally in October 2008 defines better than anything else what American politics lost when John McCain passed away.

Former Republican Governor Tim Pawlenty failed in his comeback effort last night, confirming yet again that the GOP is now the Trump Party.

White supremacists held a rally in Washington on Sunday, and almost no one but their opponents and the police showed up.

Virginia Republicans took a hard-right turn in yesterday’s primary. This is likely to benefit the Democrats.

Mike Pence’s obsequiousness to his master knows no limits.

The Atlantic fired one of their few conservative voices for saying women who have abortions should be hanged. Was this beyond the pale?

Things continue to look good for Democrats as we get closer to the midterm elections.

What is CPAC telling us about the contemporary conservative movement?

My latest for The National Interest, “How Trump’s National Security Strategy Breaks with the Past,” has posted.

Roy Moore’s loss in Alabama is bringing out into the open a civil war that has been going on for seven years now.

Will Joe Biden be ‘tan, rested, and ready’ enough to take on 2020?

Republicans have a Donald Trump problem, and they can’t run away from it.

Due mostly to cowardice and naked self-interest, you shouldn’t expect many other Republicans to speak out against Trump in the near future.

One of the few Republicans willing to speak out against Donald Trump is retiring at the end of his current term.

John McCain has been standing out from his fellow Republicans largely by unleashing on President Trump, and it is unlikely to end anytime soon.

President Obama spoke out yesterday against his successor and the America he has created.

Without mentioning his successor by name, former President Bush delivered a stinging rebuke to Trump and Trumpism.

Some quick thoughts on Moore v. Strange.

Republicans and Democrats have picked their candidates for 2017’s Governor’s race, but the biggest name is likely to be one not on the ballot, Donald Trump.

Milo Yiannopoulos was a troll and a peddler in offensiveness, but the fact that he became a star on the American right was the result of a transformation of American conservatism that has been entirely unhealthy.

On Tuesday night the Establishment won and won yuge. (From new OTB contributor, Michael Bailey)

With just over three weeks before Election Day, efforts by top Republicans to disavow their party’s nominee are quite clearly too little, too late.

Even if Donald Trump loses next month, the political forces inside the GOP he tapped into are likely to remain very powerful.

A Trump loss in November could lead to battles inside the GOP that could take years to resolve.

America’s largest voting bloc is heavily turned off by Donald Trump, and that is posing long-term problems for Republicans in general.

Hillary Clinton delvers a largely successful acceptance speech that caps off a convention that ran far smoother than its Republican counterpart.

George Will isn’t just refusing to vote for Donald Trump, he’s leaving the GOP entirely

With Donald Trump inching closer to a delegate majority with each primary, it’s obvious that GOP insiders have no idea how to stop Donald Trump.

Last night’s Republican debate had a different feel with the absence of a certain bloviating narcissist.

A new poll appears to show that a majority of Republicans support Donald Trump’s plan to bar Muslims from immigrating to the United States.

A leaked memo from a top Republican adviser tries to tell vulnerable Senate candidates how to deal with the possibility that they’ll be stuck with Trump on the top of the ticket.