Outside the Beltway

Social media has altered the way writers and readers interact in odd ways.

A new study concludes that the total death toll from Hurricane Maria was vastly higher than previously reported.

As much as we hate paying $200 a month for television, the future is likely going to be worse.

Forty-two years after being founded in a California garage, and twenty years after nearly going broke, Apple Computer has become the first publicly traded company to top $1 trillion in value.

Jobs growth fell short of expectations in July but was still relatively decent. Wage growth, however, remains stubbornly stagnant.

A Federal Judge in Washington State has, at least temporarily, blocked the release of files that would allow anyone to make a 3-D printed gun. The First Amendment seems to clearly indicate that this ruling is wrong.

The natural intuition of the aluminum tariff is that it would help Alcoa, the largest manufacturer of aluminum in the U.S. But apparently these things are a bit more complicated that one’s intuition would indicate.

The recent report of 4.1% GDP growth over the previous quarter is indeed welcome news. However, taking a look at the data both recent and in the past and there are some reasons to be concerned about GDP growth in general.

The President was up late last night sending an incredibly over-the-top tweet directed at Iran.

The 34-year-old Facebook tycoon is now worth more than 87-year-old Warren Buffet.

Federal law protects internet companies from liability for statements written by others.

The ill-advised move is sure to raise costs for businesses and consumers and roil global stock markets.

Total nonfarm payroll employment increased by 213,000 in June and the unemployment rate rose to 4.0 percent.

It’s more complicated than one might think.

Donald Trump’s trade war continues to have negative consequences for American consumers and businesses.

In a case that pit the new rules of cyberspace against the old rules about when the Fourth Amendment protects privacy, the Supreme Court ruled today in a way that breathes new life into both privacy and the Fourth Amendment.

President Trump once said that “trade wars are good and easy to win.” It’s only been three months since he started this war and we’re already finding out just how wrong he is about that.

House Republicans put forward a plan to protect DACA beneficiaries, but President Trump appears to have doomed it already.

Words mean things. Unless they don’t.

Two months ago, the President called on states to send National Guard troops to the border. As expected, they’re not guarding the border.

Senators hoping for a long summer recess have had their hopes dashed.

South Korea’s President is saying that Kim Jong Un has renewed his supposed commitment to ‘denuclearization,’ but it isn’t at all clear what that means.

American companies are struggling to comply with the EU’s new privacy regulation, with many outlets choosing to simply block access abroad.

Despite advice from advisers, the President continues to use unsecured devices to communicate outside of White House channels.

Thanks to mostly what amounts to bad science reporting in the popular media, a false claim about one of nature’s most mysterious and unique creatures continues to spread.

New York attorney Aaron Schlossberg found himself on the receiving end of an Internet firestorm this week. His case raises some interesting questions about Internet vigilantism.

An aggressive worldwide vaccination program has brought us to the point where we may soon be able to declare the eradication of Polio. That is a great thing and another argument against the anti-vaxxers.

The Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo has reached a major urban center.

For some reason, the President wants to help a Chinese company that has been accused of being a security risk by American intelligence services.

Does the administration know what it is doing?

Ebola is making a reappearance in Central Africa.. Will the world be better prepared this time?

Some good news from North Korea.

Rudy Giuliani is basically now suggesting that his client would be willing to set off a Constitutional crisis that would make Watergate seem like a picnic.

The unemployment rate hit a point unseen since Bill Clinton was President in April, but jobs and wage growth remain tepid at best.

Andrew Sullivan wonders, “Will there always be an England?”

There are reasons to be skeptical about the dawning of a new age on the peninsula.

The meeting between Kim Jong-Un and Moon Jae-In was historic, but many questions and caveats remain.

Michael Cohen will invoke his rights under the Fifth Amendment in response to any questions asked in discovery in the civil suit filed against him by Stormy Daniels. That’s really the only option he has.

The next time you sign a credit card receipt could be the last.

A decryption device called GrayKey is being used by all manner of government agencies.

Not surprisingly, a joint Senate Committee failed to really lay a glove on Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg at yesterday’s hearing.

Late last week, Hawaii became the seventh state and eighth major American jurisdiction to legalize assisted suicide.

You many have noticed the array of images and links under the footer of post pages. Here’s what it is.

The answer is, of course, no. Really, this is a post about the wall as policy.

President Trump is continuing his dangerous and misguided trade war rhetoric,

Begun the trade wars have.

The woman who wounded three people at the video company before killing herself posted insane rants all over social media.

The ‘permanent record’ of yesteryear is now real. Should there be limitations?

Fred Kaplan fails to make the case for buying an ultra-high definition TV right now.

Is Google acting as a good citizen here? Or abusing its market dominance?