Outside the Beltway

How insidious talking points spread in the modern media environment.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez already has a Republican challenger, but she doesn’t really need to worry about it.

Detroit shows how modern technology can lead to a virtual police state.

Not a new observation, but one that should not be forgotten.

Evidence appears to clearly established that Russia used many of the same social media efforts it used in the United States in 2016 to interfere in the recent European Parliament elections.

President Trump’s opening rally of the 2020 campaign sounded an awful lot like a rally from 2016

Texas has become the latest state to eliminate red-light cameras amid increasing evidence that they are largely counterproductive.

We all know the Internet broke the monopoly on classified advertising. Here’s the rest of the story.

A new report indicates that Russian social media trolls are involved in spreading anti-vaccination propaganda in the United States and elsewhere.

Strong public records laws, not an excess of weirdness, has driven a sad meme.

Thanks largely to anti-vaccination propaganda, the Centers for Disease Control reports that measles cases in the U.S. are at a level unseen in a quarter century.

A dozen people died late yesterday in a workplace shooting at the Virginia Beach Municipal Center.

Michigan Congressman Justin Amash doubled down on his assertion that the Attorney General was deliberately misleading Congress and the American public.

Late last week it appeared as if a 90-year-old veteran of the Korean War would be buried without anyone to say goodbye. Then the word got out, and thousands of people responded.

The city by the Bay is rapidly transforming. Should we lament that?

Justin Amash doubled down on his criticism of the President and his call for impeachment even as he came under fire from fellow Republicans.

Justin Amash spoke out against the President and Attorney General. Unsurprisingly this is not being received well by his fellow Republicans.

Taiwan has become the first nation in Asia to legally recognize same-sex marriage.

94-year-old Bill Dawson has a story to tell and is the only one left alive to tell it.

In a first of its kind move, voters in Denver have voted to decriminalize psychedelic mushrooms.

Matt Bernius and I collaborated on an essay for Defense One.

Yesterday, Microsoft became the third American company to reach $1 trillion in market value.

It’s an interesting idea, although one fraught with moral hazard.

Donald Trump speaks largely just to his base, ignoring the nation as a whole. Whether this will be enough to win re-election in 2020 is an open question.

The White House appears to be preparing for the worst when it comes to the nominations of Herman Cain and Stephen Moore to the Federal Reserve Board.

It’s increasingly challenging to discuss media coverage because we’re all consuming a hand-selected bit of it.

Military culture is a strange beast.

The mea culpas and I-told-you-so’s are rather premature.

Our most prolific front-pager hasn’t posted in two weeks. Readers are beginning to ask questions.

Lock them up.

On one level, it is rather amusing; on another is it quite insidious.

Two-thirds want social media platforms to ban harassment and racist, sexist, and other offensive speech.

Free expression sometimes enables horrible crimes. How does a free society deal with that tension?

Congrats to Dave Schuler on his blogiversary.

Another white supremacist attack raises disturbing questions about our information environment.

Why rational discourse seldom changes the minds of some people.

A decade-long study once again establishes that there is no link between childhood vaccination and autism.

Measles cases in the United States are surging thanks to the lies spread by the anti-vaccination movement.

A powerful Congressman successfully pressured a media giant to pull content. We should be worried.

Is 50 percent too high a take? Or the best deal in town?

Another Friday, another political mess for the Commonwealth of Virginia.

The cases of Ralph Northam and Mark Herring raise a question of when, if ever, something we did in the past should follow us for the rest of our lives.

New Jersey Senator Cory Booker is the latest entrant into the race for the 2020 Democratic Nomination.

Two more defections from the stable of writers at RedState provide further proof of the extent to which conservative media has become a pro-Trump echo chamber.

Does trash become treasure with time?

The numbers should guide policy, not silly symbols.

French President Emmanuel Macron made several concessions to the Yellow Vest protesters but it remains to be seen if this will be enough to quell the protests.

Glenn Reynolds announced via his USA Today column that he has deleted his Twitter account.

Despite aggressive vaccination efforts, measles cases surged worldwide last year. You can “thank” that anti-vaccination movement.

Minnesota Senator Amy Klobuchar is reportedly considering a bid for the Democratic Presidential Nomination in 2020.