Outside the Beltway

Survivors and family members of the Pulse Nightclub attack have filed what amounts to a frivolous lawsuit.

Ambassador Karlov is mostly likely not a modern day Archduke Franz Ferdinand.

I’m about to lose access to the primary email account I’ve had for more than a dozen years.

The President-elect lost the popular vote. Legally, that is the way that is it. This is a disgrace for “the Greatest Democracy in the World.”

Yesterday, Hillary Clinton pointed out truths about Donald Trump that his fellow Republicans were too scared to point out during the primary..

Turkey’s government appears to have rebuffed a coup attempt, but questions remains about the stability of the government going forward.

Concerns about the Zika Virus are leading some doctors to call for the 2016 Summer Olympics to be moved or postponed.

Bowe Bergdahl’s Court Martial has been delayed until 2017, which raises the possibility that comments by Donald Trump could result in Bergdahl getting off scot-free.

The business of the media is business. Business is not good.

A Federal Judge in New York has denied an F.B.I. request to force Apple to extract data from iPhones involved in a Federal drug case.

Apple is resisting a Federal Court order that it assist the F.B.I. in decryption of the iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino terrorists.

Marco Rubio was the man in the cross hairs in last night’s Republican debate.

As autonomous vehicles near the point where they’ll become a presence on American roads, are we approaching a day when it will largely be illegal for people to drive their own car?

People don’t much care whether information supporting their prejudices is true.

The no-fly list is a flawed, arbitrary mess that has kept innocent people from flying for years. Using it to deny people rights recognized by the Constitution is, quite honestly, insane.

The 2016 election cycle is seeing “scientific” online polling become more prominent, but it’s unclear just how reliable it is.

Nate Silver reminds us all that, even when it comes to Iowa and New Hampshire, it’s much earlier than we think, and that voters are still likely to change their minds.

Ted Cruz and Mike Huckabee recently kept company with a very disturbing religious leader.

In the wake of the attacks in Paris, some people have argued that American solidarity with France, in contrast to seeming disregard for tragedy elsewhere, is something we should feel bad about. That argument is ridiculous.

The Last Dance Edition OTB Caption Contest^TM is now over.

Semantics aside, Carson has a clear relationship with a company whose products are nothing but junk science.

A teenager in North Carolina is facing serious criminal charges in another absurd overreaction to teenager “sexting.”

For the first time since 1961, there will soon be an American Embassy in Havana, and a Cuban Embassy in Washington. It’s well past time that this happened.

An important tenet of the internet is “don’t read the comments.” Well, I have violated that rule of late–which means more musings on the symbols of the CSA.

It’s easier for an American citizen to go to Iran or North Korea than it is for them to go to Cuba, That’s insane.

Dave Schuler proposes a “radical idea” to safeguard individual privacy “in the wake of the hacking of Sony and the multiple credit card exploits over the last year or so.”

There’s a better way to finance news than hiding it behind paywalls.

Carly Fiorina, who flopped at Hewlett-Packard and in her lone previous political campaign, wants to be the leader of the free world.

Fox News’ Catherine Herridge is creating a scandal where none exists.

Another case of teenagers ‘sexting,’ another dumb overreaction by law enforcement.

In a twist fitting for an M Night Shyamalan movie, there is growing evidence that there was malfeasance by the co-pilot that resulted in a deliberate crash of Germanwings flight 9525.

Aaron Brazell explains why “THE INTERNET IS ABOUT TO BECOME WAY FASTER.”

One of the pioneers of the Internet warns that we’re in danger of losing entire generations’ worth of history because of digitization.

Can a country entry reap the benefits of the connected age while successfully tying down the Internet?

At least 11 are dead and 10 wounded in an attack on free expression.

The news cycle in 2014 seemed to be dominated by a series of real and phony “crises” that grabbed our attention for short periods of time.

The Obama Administration took some fire yesterday for recent Ambassadorial Appointments, but the President’s record has been consistent with those of his recent predecessors.

Adapting a relic of the 20th Century to the 21st Century.

If the President now believes he can act unilaterally on immigration reform, why did he spend the last five years saying that he couldn’t?