Outside the Beltway

President Obama and the Democrats are charging the Chamber of Commerce of funneling foreign money into ads for Republicans. It’s a desperate move unlikely to work.

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas’s wife Virginia is under scrutiny ? Why ? Because she has a job.

InstaPaper’s business model is stealing content created by others, stripping it of the ads that pay the creators, and running their own advertising on it.

No Senate candidate with a lead of more than 5.5 points in the polling average, with 30 days to go in the race, has lost his race since 1998: these candidates are 68-0.

Craig Newmark thinks NPR’s membership model will overtake advertising-supported news over the next decade.

Even with some key seats trending Democrat, Republicans are primed to take over both Houses of Congress come November 2.

Bob Woodward reports that President Obama was looking for options other than staying the course in Afghanistan. The military didn’t provide any.

Thanks to the Internet, there are a lot more Willy Lomans out there.

In yet another sign of how rapidly the media landscape is changing, longtime Newsweek stalwart is leaving for the Huffington Post.

Christine O’Donnell is buying ads on posts arguing that the party screwed itself by voting for her in yesterday’s Republican primary.

Everyone from David Petraeus to Sarah Palin is speaking out against a nutbag pastor’s Koran burning event. While they’re right, they’re emphasizing the wrong message.

It’s getting harder and harder to tell blogs from newspapers.

Marco Rubio is currently leading the three way race for the open Florida Senate seat, despite not spending a dime on television advertising in recent months.

Most people who record television shows skip the commercials. Despite that, TV remains by far the most effective form of advertising.

According to John Bolton, Israel has a deadline of August 21st to attack Iran’s nuclear program. This is the fourth deadline he’s set in the last three years.

Blogs are all grown up now and indistinguishable from other online media.

Angle is smartly focusing her commercials on the economy, and it is helping her numbers.

You’ve probably seen a lot of these signs popping up lately.

The evidence that humans are irrational continues to mount. What does this mean for self-governance?

Many of us who have philosophical objections to public radio nonetheless like the results.

The legendary food police are going after Ronald McDonald and his Happy Meals.

In conjunction with Father’s Day, the Obama administration unveiled Fatherhood.gov, a website offering advice to men on raising kids. Why is this a job for the federal government?