Outside the Beltway

A Federal Judge in New York has ruled that President Trump cannot block users from reading his tweets.

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.

We all have to grow up sometime.

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?

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo delivered a bombastic speech on Iran yesterday that reveals just how empty and dangerous the Trump Administration’s policy toward Iran actually is.

When “reasonable suspicion” and free speech collide.

In an election that pretty much everyone agrees was illegitimate, Nicolás Maduro has won a second term as Venezuela’s President.

New York attorney Aaron Schlossberg found himself on the receiving end of an Internet firestorm this week. His case raises some interesting questions about Internet vigilantism.

President Trump continues his unhinged, and unsupported by facts, war on Amazon and its owner Jeff Bezos by pressuring an independent agency to raise shipping rates.

In the wake of yesterday’s killing of eight in a Texas high school, WaPo’s Philip Bump provides a chilling statistic.

The Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo has reached a major urban center.

The Senate Judiciary Committee has released a treasure trove of documents related to the June 2016 meeting between Trump campaign officials and a Russian lawyer, and they raise far more questions than they answer.

The inventor of New Journalism has died of unknown causes.

The Leader of the Free World is, sadly, enabling atrocities.

Don’t look for a Trump agenda for the rest of the year. It doesn’t exist.

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

The number of Americans professing no religious affiliation is on the rise. This will have some interesting cultural and political implications.

The Postal Service is losing billions of dollars, but not for the reasons the President claims.

The National Security Advisor has broken up the team that manages global epidemics for no apparent reason.

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

For Donald Trump and his supporters, “Fake News” means any news that doesn’t shower enough praise on him.

The church sponsors 20 percent of the youth organization’s membership.

Whether Don Blankenship wins or loses in West Virginia, his success is yet another example of how Donald Trump has changed the GOP for the worse.

Seven years after deactivation, the U.S. Second Fleet will be patrolling the North Atlantic again.

While the Trump Administration slowly tries to remake the Federal Judiciary, states are moving to pass radical new challenges to Roe v. Wade.

After less than two weeks, former President George H.W. Bush is out of the hospital.

The unemployment rate hit a point unseen since Bill Clinton was President in April, but jobs and wage growth remain tepid at best.

President Trump has told an astonishingly large number of lies since taking office.

Rudy Giuliani threw a live grenade into the middle of the Stormy Daniels affair last night, and he’s made things much, much worse for his client.

The new Secretary of State is an improvement over the worst Secretary of State in history.

Failed Senate candidate Roy Moore is suing several of the women who accused him of sexual misconduct during last year’s campaign.

Despite the fact that President Trump’s continues to praise him, Ronny Jackson will not be returning to the White House as the President’s personal physician.

General (Retired) Michael Hayden has some harsh, and concerning, criticisms of the Trump administration.

Instead of attending the White House Correspondents Association Dinner last night, Donald Trump took his show on the road where he continued his long-standing attacks on the press. Unfortunately, it’s a message that resonates with his supporters.

The House Intelligence Committee’s report is being touted as vindication by the Trump Administration and its supporters. It’s not.

Ronny Jackson did not invent the practice of giving Ambien and Provigil to high-level government workers.

President Trump may be looking to push Chief of Staff John Kelly aside by giving him a next to impossible job.

The White House physician is accused of excessive drinking on the job and improperly dispensing medication among other offenses.

The Kim regime has announced the end, for now, of its nuclear and ballistic missile testing programs. To understand why they made this concession, one needs to read between the lines.

In response to inquiries about frequent media mentions of the Director’s wartime service, the CIA has confirmed he did not serve in combat.

Barbara Bush, only the second woman in history to be the wife and mother of a U.S. President, has died at the age of 92.

Sean Hannity was Michael Cohen’s “secret client,” but it’s not clear that should matter to anyone.

President Trump undercut his own Ambassador to the United Nations today by blocking the imposition of new sanctions on Russia.

New polling shows the Democrat’s lead in the Congressional ballot poll shrinking slightly, but enthusiasm is still on their side.

President Trump is on the attack against James Comey as the former F.B.I. Director begins his book tour.

President Trump’s job approval numbers remain historically low.

Donald Trump could have more to worry about regarding the investigation of Michael Cohen than he does regarding the Mueller investigation.

There is no obvious strategy and even the expressed rationale makes no sense.

Given a choice between Robert Mueller and Donald Trump, most Americans are siding with Mueller. Unless they’re Republicans that is.