Outside the Beltway

Why Google isn’t AltaVista.

Who knew they got cell reception?

Will consumers put up with monthly fees on top of hefty sticker prices?

They’re fighting for fair treatment. They’ll likely lose.

Inventing outrage in an already outrageous world.

It turns out that the candy flavored booze at the grocery store isn’t even bourbon.

But did he ever really have it?

Michael Barone on out-migration from some Blue states.

The biggest entertainment product in America is getting bigger.

The January 6 Committee recommends invoking the Insurrection Clause.

A 4155-page, $1.65 trillion dollar budget deal has been reached.

Her emphasis on turnout has helped other Democrats but she’s a two-time loser.

Spoiler alert: the GOP has already failed this test multiple times.

A showdown over wages could upend the apprenticeship arrangement that has long characterized graduate education.

The company is begrudgingly complying with the EU’s requirement.

Biden is following Trump’s lead but doing it more competently.

Publishers and consumers want very different business models.

The company’s new AI technology looks awfully familiar.

People are resisting going back to the office.

Brussels has gotten ahead of Washington in regulating mostly American-based Internet companies.

An example of when better isn’t better.

One of the great annoyances of the Internet is slowly going away.

Actions deemed unthinkable days earlier are suddenly mandatory.

Is the past still the past?

The industry is changing rapidly.

Apple’s iMessages and teen chic.

A long peek at history in the making.

A depressing magazine piece argues it is.

Is media coverage of experts’ struggles to understand COVID helpful?

A party invitation going terribly wrong.

A series of mismatches mean would-be workers can’t find employment despite an abundance of openings.

Hungary is part of a broader global trend, but the real issue isn’t Hungary, it is the Americans who praise Hungary.

The President announced a whopping 72 initiatives to rein in corporate power and lower prices.

There’s got to be a better way.

A major first step to solving a longstanding global issue.

The author of beloved children’s books is gone at 91.

For now, at least, it can shift millions of its earnings to Luxembourg.

A credulous report on the tech giant’s altruism.

We tend to focus on the wrong qualities in our early assessments.

There are legitimate ethical and liberty questions but they’re outweighed by the benefits.

The quasi-monopoly power of the world’s largest bookstore is problematic. Maybe.

Amazon is using its dominant position to shut down a right-wing social platform.

Thus far, Disney+ and HBO Max are additive rather than cannibalizing competing services.

The days of one-stop media shopping are long gone.

Explaining the continuing cowardice of GOP Senators.

A reprise of an almost identical case with a different group of Justices–and the Chief Justice switching sides.

The President has been Twitter on their own platform. Now, he’s following through.

Contrary to some expectations, Americans are logging three extra hours of work a day.

What do they know, anyway?