Outside the Beltway

Netflix will charge $7.99 for streaming video; it’s now a $2 add-on.

A space shuttle lifted off for the last time on Friday, and some people seem to think its the beginning of the end of America.

I’m continually shocked when demonstrably bright and accomplished people fall in love with authoritarian states.

Microsoft is making millions from Android phones, despite having nothing to do with designing, marketing, manufacturing, or distributing them.

President Obama wants a million hybrid cars on the road by 2015. That’s easier said than done.

Yet another study shows that people who drink diet soda actually gain weight. But it probably doesn’t matter, since that’s not why people drink them.

160 million girls are “missing” owing to selective abortion and cultural preferences for male children.

If someone had given me ten guesses as to the biggest electricity hog in my house, I’d have never guessed it: The set-top box that houses my DirecTV signal and DVR.

On paper, Jon Huntsman looks like a great General Election candidate. The problem is it seems impossible for him to win the GOP nomination.

When everyone can record video at any time and post it to for all the world to see, is there such a thing as privacy anymore?

The Internet’s dot.com period may be under assault, as brand-specific domains become available.

Sandy Levinson suggests that there is a key lesson from the Founders that we ignore.

The gang at Fox Nation is amused that President Obama is blaming ATMs for high unemployment. But he’s right.

Is the college curriculum too heavy in humanities and social sciences and too light on science and mathematics?

Newt Gingrich’s entire senior presidential staff has resigned.

As with most of the other issues facing us, our political conversation about climate change and what to do about it basically just involves yelling at each other.

Beck heads to the internet.

Overfishing may mean a near term future in which there are no more fish in the sea.

Film sales are down to 20 million rolls from nearly a billion in 2000.

Business Week’s cover story examines the coming implosion of the US Postal Service as we know it.

Science fiction writers have envisioned men flying around in their own personal jetpacks for decades. It may finally be a reality.

Suddenly, it seems like every website known to man is foisting videos that play the instant the page loads on their readers.

My more-or-less defunct Yahoo email account is being used to send out spam messages to people in my address book.

Amy Myers, the sophomore who challenged Michele Bachmann to a debate on the Constitution, has been the target of vile comments on the Internet.

Has technology robbed us of more than it’s given in return?

Video calling is becoming widely available. Will it become as common as talking on the phone?

With a Federal ban on sales of incandescent light bulbs fast approaching, manufacturers are still scrambling to invent suitable substitutes.

Bill Clinton thinks some sort of government agency should do somethingorother about rumors on the Internet.

Technology has saved the lives of countless American soldiers. But it’s made going to war easier.

Why the United States has found itself in a seemingly endless series of wars over the past two decades.

The Who Is That Mosqued Man Edition OTB Caption Contest^TM is now over.