Outside the Beltway

But compared to what?

Magical? Impressive? Or just too much money?

Almost everyone in households making over $75,000 are protected from COVID.

The tech giant is even more powerful than you think.

The President announced a whopping 72 initiatives to rein in corporate power and lower prices.

There’s got to be a better way.

A law seeking to help the state’s workers seems to be having the opposite effect.

Yet another thing driving Americans apart.

Our love for cheap goods and services requires lots of people willing to work for very little.

The question is: for how long and ultimately how much?

The project that has been on-again, off-again since 2008 seems to be off for good.

A major first step to solving a longstanding global issue.

Our junior enlisted members make far less than that.

The new CDC guidelines raise some serious questions.

Cybercrime pays after all.

The Southeast has been hit especially hard.

Huge swaths of the country are underserved.

What constitutes a “low income” or “high income” country?

The US has more shots available than willing arms while those in the developing world are dying.

Are we thinking about job training all wrong?

Look at who’s lined up against H.R. 1.

A credulous report on the tech giant’s altruism.

The economy looks to be in full recovery. But it’s not clear how much credit the President deserves.

The Internet killed the newspaper without really replacing it.

We can all agree that it’s important but not what it is.

A really weird proposal to solve a problem that probably doesn’t exist.

Many states are moving to a first come, first served basis for COVID shots.

A George Mason economist has an intriguing idea but maybe he has it backwards.

An interesting proposal to improve tax collection.

Pandemic-induced recession? What pandemic-induced recession?

The quasi-monopoly power of the world’s largest bookstore is problematic. Maybe.

The job losses and hit to the service sector is well documented. But trade has radically shifted, too.

The fear of missing out is strong.

Now, we’re just haggling over price.

Amazon is using its dominant position to shut down a right-wing social platform.

Thus far, Disney+ and HBO Max are additive rather than cannibalizing competing services.

The days of one-stop media shopping are long gone.

More packages are being mailed than ever and USPS can’t keep up.

Another unassailable if boring cabinet choice.

Already-high rates have been exacerbated by the pandemic.

Are those with kids getting over?

The online behemoth is consolidating its market position during the pandemic.

“We are a cancer and there is no cure,”

It’s much easier to fund bad information than good.

A world in which we’re all contractors is a dystopian utopia.

An unintended consequence of the Cares Act.

The venerable apparel company is having a hard go of it.

The emotional and economic impact of the pandemic is hitting women especially hard.

Nike and FedEx may be able to do what Native American activists couldn’t.