Outside the Beltway

Part One in a series of observations about health care and health insurance in light of the introduction of the House GOP’s health care plan.

Fewer people are watching live television events such as the Super Bowl and Academy Awards.

Trump’s attempt to fix the balance of trade will almost surely end up leaving us all worse off.

Travel industry experts are reporting a noticeable drop in international travel and tourism since Donald Trump was elected President.

An ambitious plan to return men to the Moon in less than two years.

The Supreme Court will now consider a case regarding whether or not a state can bar a former felon from accessing social media sites.

A major announcement from NASA in the search for possible life outside the Solar System.

Several former candidates for President are emerging as potential candidates for Senate.

Technology continues to make more and more jobs unnecessary and irrelevant. And the consequences are going to be widespread.

Megaprojects are not a partisan thing. Megaprojects are large projects typically costing more than $1 billion and often tens of billions of dollars and impacting the lives of tens of thousands of people if not millions.

The first day of implementation of President Trump’s order barring immigration from certain Muslim nations did not go smoothly for the Administration.

The reality of global climate change made itself evident again in 2016.

The mystery of what happened aboard Malaysian Airlines Flight 370 may remain at the bottom of the Indian Ocean forever.

One of the few members of a small fraternity of heroes has passed away.

Norway is switching from FM Radio to digital broadcasting. A similar transition in the United States seems unlikely for the time being.

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

Godspeed, John Glenn.

Another month of solid but not spectacular jobs growth seems to guarantee that the Federal Reserve will increase interest rates this month.

As America prepares for a Presidential transition, an old conflict with a history of turning dangerous rears its head.

Canada is phasing out coal as a source of electricity production by 2030. The same thing will happen in the United States no matter how much politicians try to stop it.

In which I use a lot of words to say hello.

Despite resentments, power will transition peacefully from President Obama to President Trump. We should be thankful for that rather than protesting it.

Janet Reno, who served as Attorney General for nearly all of the Bill Clinton Administration, has died at 78.

Donald Trump is doing worse with white voters than Mitt Romney did in 2012.

A new report concludes that Malaysia Air Flight 17 was brought down by a missile brought into Ukraine from Russia.

A new study debunks an old idea.

North Korea continues to advance its nuclear program but it’s unclear what anyone can do about it.

North Korea conducts yet another nuclear weapons test, and it’s unclear what anyone can do to stop them.

Another sign of a weak economy as the Federal Reserve considers rate hikes and the Presidential campaign moves forward.

A true, albeit largely anonymous, hero of humanity has passed away.

Remember Peak Oil? Whatever happened to that idea?

The Dallas shooting spree ended with police killing the perpetrator with a drone. I’m okay with that.

Two cases quite a distance from each other, but in both police seem to be acting with a ‘shoot first, ask questions later’ attitude, especially when it comes to African-American men.

NASA’s latest probe has begun a two year mission to study the Solar System’s biggest planet.

The May Jobs Report was bad all-around. The question is whether this will come to be seen as an anomaly or the beginning of a worrisome trend.

President Obama’s visit to Hiroshima left just the impression it should have.

Yes, Colin Powell used private email too. No, it’s not the same thing. No, it’s not because he was a Republican.

The Clinton campaign probably thought the email story was behind them. The new report from the State Department’s Inspector General shows just how wrong they were about that.

Another historic launch and return by SpaceX.

One of the pioneers of the technology revolution of the past four decades has passed away.

More saber rattling from Pyongyang.

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.

Work Phones Are Being Phased Out at Banks