Outside the Beltway

The anti-Trump forces are rallying around the former South Carolina governor and UN ambassador.

Abortion, an unrepresentative electorate, and candidate idiosyncracy ruled the off-off-year election.

America’s involvement in the Israeli and Ukrainian war efforts is more than advertised.

The game is the game.

Has the search goliath gotten worse?

How something so promising became so frustrating.

A surpringly large number tuned in to see people who won’t be the nominee.

The current business model is collapsing. It’s about time.

A standoff over social issues may derail a $900 billion budget bill.

The Electoral College is holding a nation of millions back.

Should businesses have to include taxes and other fees in their advertised price?

The North Dakota governor really, really wants to be on TV.

Damned if they do and damned if they don’t. Sometimes both.

A regional chain registered it in 1989. Has it become generic?

Did the Trump stunt backfire? Or just an anomaly?

BuzzFeed, Disney, and others are making big cuts.

A symbolic gesture is now highly impractical, if not harmful.

Who should pay whom for what?

The controversial AI has some interesting programming quirks.

An illegal practice that won’t go away.

A look back at two decades of blogging.

The anti-Trump Republican could find re-election difficult.

Eric Adams is begging for the Federal Government for relief.

Mike Pompeo’s PAC wants you to know that Mike Pompeo’s book is a “thriller with stories from the heart” of Mike Pompeo

Some thoughts on polling and the news since 2016.

Why a paper got the story right and no one paid attention and polls over opposition research

The President will be the 2024 Democratic nominee. Get used to it.

Headline News Network is shuttering after four decades.

Sports fans enjoy watching sports. How much does politics impact that?

The margins for 2024 are likely to be slim. But that hides a larger story.

Another frivolous suit making a mockery of the American tort system.

The most popular television product is running out of room to expand.

Would bypassing politicians altogether make the system more just?

Publishers and consumers want very different business models.

Reading habits continue to evolve, not necessarily for the better.

A shameful stunt reminiscent of an even darker era.

Paywalls are not our problem.

Four dollars and change at the pump.
The cost of livin’s high and goin’ up.

The legendary comic book artist is gone at 80.

Brussels has gotten ahead of Washington in regulating mostly American-based Internet companies.

Actions deemed unthinkable days earlier are suddenly mandatory.

The longtime aggregator is now serving mostly non-news content.

Russia may invade Ukraine again. The United States would prefer otherwise.

The appetite for content and clicks turns sensationalizes news that isn’t news.

The veteran character actor has died of cancer at 66.

The longtime TV pitchman is gone.

Most aren’t worth the paper they’re printed on.

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

Should he be worried about the appearance of partisan gaming?

The author of beloved children’s books is gone at 91.