Outside the Beltway

Was one of the pioneering African-American entertainers a “house Negro”?

A pioneer woman born in 1867 depicted American Indians and African-Americans in ways that are cringe-worthy today.

A controversial name is disappearing from one small stretch of road.

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

The 100-mile Constitution-free zone strikes again.

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

Either the President of the United States is a knowing liar or he is very easily duped. Neither is a comforting thought.

The odds of an immigration bill passing the House were already low. This morning, President Trump pretty much guaranteed failure.

A towering figure gone much too soon.

Overruling precedent dating back 51 years, the Court has ruled that states can require businesses that sell to residents within their state collect and remit appropriate sales taxes.

The Administration is going to unveil a plan for a major reorganization of government agencies today.

President Trump has reversed the family separation policy and replaced it with a family detention policy. This is likely to lead to Court challenges.

House Republicans are supposed to vote on one or more immigration bills this week, but can’t even agree what their policy should be.

New polling shows that the Trump Administration’s family separation policy is widely unpopular, with only Republicans supporting it. That last fact, though, is why Trump is unlikely to change the policy.

Children are not political bargaining chips, but that’s exactly what this President plans to turn them into.

The Trump administration’s approach to immigrant children is a serious test of our national morality.

The offer was made to Roger Stone.

A Trump Administration policy announced in April has resulted in roughly 2,000 children being taken from their parents at the border.

Donald Trump’s former Campaign Manager was sent to jail, a move that likely increases the pressure on him to cooperate with Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation.

The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette’s editorial cartoonist is out after twenty-five years.

The Department of Justice’s Inspector General found that former F.B.I. Director James Comey was ‘insubordinate’ in regard to the Clinton email investigation, but found no evidence of political bias at the Bureau.

The Attorney General of New York has filed a Complaint against President Trump and several members of his family alleging widespread fraud in the operation of Trump’s charitable Foundation.

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

Longstanding policy that the Justice Department defend an Act of Congress if there is “any reasonable argument” it is constitutional is being ignored.

The Singapore Summit meeting between President Trump and Kim Jong Un was about as substance-less as most analysts anticipated it would be.

Both President Trump and Ivanka Trump are profiting handsomely from their time in the White House.

In Husted v. A. Philip Randolph Institute, Samuel Alito authored a 5-4 opinion ruling that removing voters from the rolls after four years is perfectly legal.

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

Former Trump Campaign Director Paul Manafort has been hit with a new round of charges.

Political columnist and commentator Charles Krauthammer has weeks to live.

Donald Trump’s approach to international trade has nothing to with economics and everything to do with politics and the culture war he loves to provoke.

Most Americans disagree with Trump on the N.F.L. National Anthem protests, but Republicans are behind him.

Frank Carlucci, who served as President Reagan’s last Secretary of Defense, has died at 87.

President Trump’s attorneys have put forward a shockingly expansive view of the powers of the President.

In the Trump Era, the White House Press Briefing is becoming shorter and less informative.

It may be my favorite Star Wars film since ‘Empire Strikes Back.’

Among the stumbling blocks to a DPRK nuclear summit: who’s going to pay for Kim Jong Un’s hotel room?

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

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.

The Republican Governor of Missouri is resigning amid growing accusations related to an extramarital affair, blackmail, and sexual assault.

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.

The President’s constant attacks on the news media are meant for a single purpose, to undermine even accurate reporting about wrongdoing in his Administration.

South Korea’s President is saying that Kim Jong Un has renewed his supposed commitment to ‘denuclearization,’ but it isn’t at all clear what that means.

This President lies on a daily basis. It’s time to start calling him what he is.

Alan Bean, the fourth man to walk on the Moon, has died at the age of 86

Just as they did three years ago when they legalized same-sex marriage, Irish voters turned out in record numbers to repeal the nation’s ban on abortion.

The numbers suggests that the administration isn’t too interested in talking.

Three Executive Orders signed ahead of the Memorial Day holiday has government employees scrambling.