Outside the Beltway

Some reports are suggesting that Secretary of State Mike Pompeo might take on the additional role of National Security Adviser.

This evening ten Democratic candidates for President, including all of the front runners, appear on stage together for the third debate of the 2020 election cycle.

She decries swanky fundraisers and big money donors while benefiting from both.

Faced with an election next week, Israel’s Prime Minister is pushing a settlement plan that would be an utter disaster.

John Bolton was not a good National Security Adviser, but the real problem with Trump Administration foreign policy comes from the man at the top.

President Trump took to Twitter late this morning to fire his third National Security Adviser.

There’s the truth, and then there’s Donald Trump’s version of the truth. The two are seldom related.

Hurricanes and corrupting truth.

The parent organization of the National Weather Service issued a statement Alabama and Dorian.

The August Jobs Report came in below expectations as other economic statistics point to a slowing economy.

A Federal Judge in Virginia has found the terrorist watch list unconstitutional.

The House of Commons handed Prime Minister Boris Johnson a huge loss yesterday, throwing the short-term future of Brexit into doubt.

A wedding venue in Mississippi is citing religious beliefs in support of its decision not to allow an interracial couple to utilize their facilities.

The map shows the flaws of the Electoral College

The Democratic National Committee is moving to block efforts by the state parties in Iowa and Nevada to open up the caucus process to more participants, citing security issues.

Alabama Governor Kay Ivey is the latest politician to apologize for donning blackface while she was in college.

Just joking edition.

The reaction to Boris Johnson’s move to suspend Parliament to force a hard Brexit is mostly negative, but there appears to be little that can be done to stop it.

The 10th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled last week that states cannot punish electors who fail to follow the will of the majority of voters n their state or state laws purporting to direct how they should vote.

A new poll shows that most Americans want President Trump out of office, but don’t want to see the House impeach him.

A Florida jury has convicted a man involved in an argument over a parking space of manslaughter, rejecting his attempt to invoke the state’s ‘stand your ground’ law

Indianapolis Colts Quarterback Andrew Luck surprised the sports world last night by announcing an early retirement.

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg underwent three weeks of cancer treatment earlier this summer. The second such treatment in a year, and the fourth in the last twenty years.

Sarah Huckabee Sanders has signed on with Fox News Channel to continue her career of lying on behalf of the President.

Another day, another Trump temper tantrum.

President Trump just tossed a hand grenade into the firestorm that American politics.

The Trump Administration and 2020 campaign are clearly worried about the state of the economy. They should be, because it could be the one thing that dooms his re-election chances.

Confirming the original diagnosis, Jeffrey Epstein’s death last weekend has been ruled a suicide.

President Trump wants to make a deal.

President Trump is delaying implementation of his recently announced tariffs on Chinese goods.

Donald Trump lies with the ease that the rest of us tie our shoes. Will that fact have an impact on voters?

A Federal Court has ruled once again in favor of a transgender student in Virginia who was prevented from using the bathroom conforming to their gender identity.

Trump’s trip to El Paso in one photo and two videos.

Just over a week after Dan Coats announced he was stepping own as Director of National Intelligence, there are more shakeups at the top of the U.S. intelligence community.

While Democrats debated among themselves about health care plans that will likely never become law, Republicans were pushing forward with judicial confirmations.

In a unanimous decision, a three-judge panel from the Second Circuit has reinstated Sarah Palin’s defamation lawsuit against The New York Times.

Beijing is warning protesters in Hong Kong that it’s restraint in the face of protests is not without limit. However, it has few realistic options when it comes to how far it can go.

More than half of the House Democratic Caucus has endorsed impeachment, but that’s unlikely to cause Nancy Pelosi to move off her current position.

A Federal Judge in Washington has dismissed a lawsuit filed by the DNC alleging a conspiracy between the Trump campaign and Russia during the 2016 election.

The only African-American Republican in the House of Representatives is retiring, and that should worry Republicans nationwide.

July’s Jobs Report was in line with expectations, but hardly indicative of a booming economy.

WIth some signs pointing to a slowing global economy, and President Trump applying political pressure, the Federal Reserve reversed interest rate policy yesterday.

As was the case a month ago, Vice-President Biden and Senator Kamala Harris were the focus of last night’s debate. Things turned out very differently, though.

President Trump’s nominee to be the next Director of National Intelligence is quite simply not qualified for the position he has been nominated to.

Once again, President Trump can’t help but make something meant to recognize real American heroes all about himself.

The first night of the second Democratic debate consisted largely of clashes between the party’s progressive wing and more moderate elements.

The House Democratic Caucus is becoming more divided on the issue of moving forward with impeachment.

The Mueller hearings don’t appear to have moved the needle of public opinion when it comes to impeachment.

Despite all the complaining, we’re in a golden age of political and policy coverage.

A Federal Judge has dismissed a defamation lawsuit filed by a Kentucky teenager alleging he had been defamed by the coverage of his confrontation with a Native American man in January.