Outside the Beltway

Google’s Chrome browser has overtaken Microsoft’s Internet Explorer to become the most used browser in the world.

The private office is quickly becoming a relic, despite the loss of morale and productivity that comes from open floorplans.

Americans Elect is dead. This should surprise nobody.

Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin denies that his motivation for renouncing his US citizenship was tax avoidance.

With Facebook’s huge IPO in the news, Megan Garber takes a look at how much the Internet has evolved since Thefacebook came on the scene.

Will Twitter impact the 2012 elections? The evidence seems thin that it will.

Dish Network is offering customers a DVR that will skip commercials. I’m sure their content providers are thrilled.

The next generation search engine may not point to Web pages at all.

Mitt Romney is being rightfully ridiculed for trying to take credit for saving General Motors and Chrysler.

Not only does yogurt make mice slimmer; it also makes them sexier.

Iran’s path to a nuclear bomb isn’t as easy as most think, Jacques Hymans argues in the current Foreign Policy.

Our psychological and cultural biases make evaluating information and arguments rationally next to impossible.

The famous “double helix” article was published 59 years ago today. It’s worth a look.

Lt Gen Benny Gantz says Iran “is going step by step to the place where it will be able to decide whether to manufacture a nuclear bomb. It hasn’t yet decided to go the extra mile.”

The arrival of Discovery in Washington D.C. has led to another lament about “national greatness.”

There are advantages to cash that electronic transactions cannot replicate.

The body of Corporal Patrick R. Glennon will be returned to his family for burial, 52 years after he was declared missing in action in Korea.

Newt Gingrich is morally and intellectually bankrupt, so perhaps it’s no surprise that his health care think tank is now fiscally bankrupt.

Far from being deterimental, there is a case to be made that SuperPACs have actually expended democracy during this election cycle.

Through a stroke of bad luck, the Atlantic Council server was down during a critical Google update

A new book would classify most of us who consume alcohol as “almost alcoholics.”

There’s a big hole in the latest sanctions against Iran.

Most of us with iPhone 4’s use Siri, the voice-activated digital assistant–but for a very limited range of tasks.

Like it or not, what you do online will be of interest to someone looking to hire you.

TV gave us the world’s first bionic man in 1973. Science is way behind.

Dharun Ravi was convicted of bias intimidation toward Tyler Clementi. It’s not at all clear that he should have been.

Seven of the top ten and fifteen of the top twenty universities on the planet are American.

Janelle Nanos investigates her relationship with her iPhone.

Romney eked out a win in the Michigan primary. He’s going to have a harder time there in November.