Outside the Beltway

President Trump is in Japan, and while there is is dismissing the seriousness of new North Korean missile tests that threaten Japan.

No, abolishing the EC would not turn farmers into serfs.

Theresa May has announced she is stepping down as leader of the Conservative Party as of June 7th, starting a process that will have her out of Downing Street withing the next two months or so.

Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has been indicted on seventeen counts under the Espionage Act arising out of his role in the Chelsea Manning affair.

Surprising pollsters and political analysts down under, Australia’s ruling center-right coalition pulled off a big win in Saturday’s election.

Happy Friday.

British Prime Minister Theresa May is seeking an extension on her promise to leave office at the same time that the political future of her Conservative Party becomes increasingly doubtful.

The President revived an old debate but added some new twists.

Recent poll numbers suggest that the President is vulnerable in the part of the country that assured his Electoral College victory in 2020, but Democrats are going to have to work hard to flip these states.

A new poll shows that a majority of the British public believes that the Brexit referendum was a bad idea. What that means for the future of Brexit is not at all clear.

A Saturday edition.

The Trump Administration’s policies toward Iran aren’t going to work, but that’s because they aren’t supposed to work.

Sanders’ position on felon voting is logical, yet politically suicidal.

Former Massachusetts Governor Bill Weld has officially joined the race for the 2020 Republican Presidential nomination

The other shoe has dropped.

As a no-deal Brexit becomes more likely, the EU is taking things personally.

Many are calling for the UK Prime Minister’s ouster. But the problem is Brexit itself, not any one leader.

It’s that time of year again, and once again people are asking if it isn’t time to drop the whole ritual of changing time every six months altogether.

The response to the latest outbreak of the Ebola Virus has both succeeded and failed in several response.

A novel proposal for making SCOTUS appointments more responsive to election outcomes.

While the rest of the world looks at other events, tensions are flaring in a long-standing global hot spot.

Based on his job approval numbers, President Trump could face an uphill battle in 2020.

After two years of spitting in their faces, President Trump is finding it hard to get America’s European allies to come to his aid.

With just over two months to go until the March 29th deadline, British Prime Minister Theresa May is no closer to a Brexit deal.

The Trump Administration continues to drive a wedge between the United States and Europe, can it ever be repaired?

Lyndon LaRouche, an eight-time Presidential candidate who ran a cult-like organization that spread bizarre conspiracy theories, has died at 96.

Bernie Sanders is likely to run for the Democratic nomination, but it won’t be like 2016.

In what amounts to a setback, the Supreme Court has lifted an injunction barring the Trump Administration’s ban on transgender service in the military to go forward pending further legal proceedings.

Theresa May survived the Labour Party’s call for a no-confidence vote, but the future for her and for her country remain as hazy as ever.

New York Senator Kirsten Gillibrand is the latest Democratic entrant into the 2020 race for President.

Theresa May is likely to survive today’s no confidence vote, but what happens after that is unclear given that changes to her Brexit deal seem unlikely.

Theresa May’s Brexit deal suffered the worst defeat in the modern history of the British Parliament, and nobody is sure what happens next.

Later today, Theresa May’s Brexit deal will face a decisive vote in the House of Commons in a vote that could have implications for May’s own hold on power.

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 scandal-plagued Secretary of the Interior is leaving office at the end of the year.

British Prime Minister Theresa May survived an intra-party leadership challenge, but her political position is still far from secure.

Theresa May is facing an unexpected challenge to her leadership even as she deals with trying to save a Brexit deal that nobody seems to like.

Theresa May is trying to save a Brexit deal that appears to be becoming more doomed by the day.

Europe’s highest Court appeared to hand the United Kingdom a way of escaping Brexit altogether if it chose to go that route. This will greatly complicate the domestic political situation for Theresa May.

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

The Supreme Court appears reluctant to overturn a century of case law that established a significant exception to the Double Jeopardy Clause.

American troops have been in Afghanistan for seventeen years now, it’s time to bring them all home.

The Trump Administration is attempting to bypass the Circuit Courts of Appeal and get immediate Supreme Court review of the President’s ban on transgender Americans serving in the military.

The European Union has approved the final Brexit deal negotiated with Theresa May’s government, but the final chapter has yet to be written.

Happy Thanksgiving!

The Scots want to stop Brexit, but it’s not clear they have the power to stop it.

As Brexit hangs by a thread in the United Kingdom, the European Union makes clear that renegotiation of the agreement that has been reached is a non-starter.

Once again, Republicans in California find themselves looking up and seeing a lot of desolation. They need to find a way to bounce back.

Another part of the country that was once a Republican stronghold is now almost completely blue.