Outside the Beltway

America’s newspaper of records has published three pages of stolen tax documents from 1995.

The idea that Donald Trump has gotten his racialized rhetoric from libertarians is simply errant nonsense. The libertarian view, broadly speaking, is not defined by Murray Rothbard, Llewellyn Rockwell, and Ron Paul and those who share their views. This is but a small and even fringe group of what could be called the libertarian community.

Roger Ailes’s sexual harassment has led to Fox News paying out some big dollars.

Despite being much more conveniently located for viewers in the United States, viewership for the just-concluded Olympics were the lowest they’ve been in sixteen years.

If the allegations of a new lawsuit are true, things are truly lurid behind the scenes at Fox News Channel.

A true legend in legal journalism is moving on.

A journalistic legend has passed away just days after his retirement was officially announced.

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

Jim VandeHei and Mike Allen are leaving after a dispute with their chief investor.

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

Yesterday, cable news networks, and most especially MSNBC, showed their profession at its most pathetic.

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.

To the surprise of few, Bill Simmons’ site didn’t long survive his departure.

An FCC rule from a bygone era may get Bernie Sanders and company some time on NBC.

A bizarre hatchet job on Carly Fiorina’s autobiography.

When did “politics” become a dirty word?

A front page cover on yesterday’s murders in Virginia crosses the line from reporting to exploitation.

A reporter and cameraman for a local television station were killed, and a third person wounded, live on the air this morning.

Susan Crawford claims that “Cable-Only Presidential Debates are the New Poll Tax.”

So does this mean Big Bird will show up on Game Of Thrones?

Brian Williams will apparently stay at NBC News notwithstanding last year’s scandal, but he won’t be anchoring the network’s marquee newscast.

It’s getting easier and easier to cut the cord.

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

George Stephanopoulos’ s ties to the Clinton’s have always raised questions about his objectivity. Now, there’s further reason to doubt that he can play fair when the Clinton’s are part of the story he’s covering.

The first of what is likely to be many defamation suits related to Rolling Stone’s discredited campus rape story has been filed.

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

A review of Rolling Stone’s now discredited report of a sexual assault at the University of Virginia reveals a shocking failure of journalistic ethics.

The Republican frontrunner claims he doesn’t read America’s most important newspaper.

What reporters see as stonewalling may be shrewd clock management.

The intrepid foreign correspondent and editor Arnaud de Borchgrave has died, aged 88, of cancer.

So what?

Their editor and nine colleagues dead, their offices destroyed, the newspaper is not missing a beat.

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 Justice Department won’t force James Risen to testify in a legal investigation, but faces a new choice in a different case.

An utter journalistic failure from Rolling Stone.

Much like the disease itself, Ebola panic seems to have disappeared as the midterm elections become ever more distant in the rear view mirror.

Americans have wildly distorted understandings of the society around them.