Outside the Beltway

The White Male Great American Literary Novelist for the 21st Century is not a fan of modern realities.

Rebutting the President’s routine prevarications merely spreads them. Is there an alternative?

Sarah Huckabee Sanders was asked to leave a restaurant in Virginia last night, and the incident raises questions of how far we should let politics infiltrate everyday life.

The dean of conservative columnists argues that the Republican Congress must be taught a lesson.

The crying Honduran girl who has become a symbol of a brutal policy actually is not one of its victims.

The President continues to enjoy enthusiastic support from the over-65 set.

President Trump has unblocked Twitter users, but at the same time his lawyers are appealing the ruling that he can’t block Twitter users.

Yesterday, the Supreme Court ruled that a police officer violated the Fourth Amendment when he conducted a search on a vehicle parked in a Defendant’s driveway without a search warrant.

The President’s constant attacks on the news media are meant for a single purpose, to undermine even accurate reporting about wrongdoing in his Administration.

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

A Federal Judge in New York has ruled that President Trump cannot block users from reading his tweets.

The Internet is a global platform. Should every country’s laws apply to everyone using it?

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.

For Donald Trump and his supporters, “Fake News” means any news that doesn’t shower enough praise on him.

Some good news from North Korea.

It takes a whole lot of work to net small gains for underrepresented groups.

In a new book, Senator John McCain makes an announcement that everyone was anticipating.

Solving the problems created by neighborhood-based schools isn’t going to be easy.

Overnight, we moved to content encryption. Here’s what that means for you.

A longtime “Hillary Beat” reporter ruminates on what she and her candidate could have done differently in 2016.

Barbara Bush, only the second woman in history to be the wife and mother of a U.S. President, has died at the age of 92.

Mark Zuckerberg’s second day before Congress was somewhat more contentious than the first, but at the end of the day it’s still unclear that more regulation is the answer to the issues raised by recent Facebook “scandals.”

President Trump took to Twitter this morning and decided poke a stick in the eye of the Russian bear.

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

Governor Rick Scott has entered the race to challenge Bill Nelson in Florida, creating what is likely to be one of the most closely watched races of the year.

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

Another early-morning edition of Late Night OTB.

Another Federal Court loss for gun rights activists challenging state laws banning “assault weapons.”

A woman who was fired after a photograph of her giving the middle finger to President Trump’s motorcade went viral is suing her former employer. She doesn’t have much of a case.

Old-fashioned notions of journalistic neutrality are chafing young reporters in the Age of Trump.

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

News anchors at dozens of local stations owned by conservative-leaning Sinclair Broadcast Group were recently required to read a script mandated by corporate headquarters, and it’s leading to some bad media coverage for Sinclair.

He cooperated with the FBI. He was arrested by ICE.

Under the proposal certain visa-seekers (such as China and India) would have to have their social media presence scrutinized.

The grand gesture may put undue pressure on women in making an important life decision.

Supporters of Roy Moore tried to bribe the attorney for a woman accusing the former Senate candidate of sexual assault when she was just fourteen years old into repudiating his client.

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

Breitbart News appears to be fading in terms of readership, but the alt-right politics it represents is not going away.

A D.C. lawmaker latches on to an insane conspiracy theory.

Will Bunch wildly exaggerates the Cambridge Analytica scandal.

Individual races are idiosyncratic. But there are nonetheless some lessons here.

This is from the band Jack Levitt off their 2007 release “Conversations With A Chupacabra.”

Two seemingly contradictory essays out today highlight the exhausting political conversation environment.

Netflix no longer offers President Frank Underwood. They’re lining up a replacement.

The inevitable response to announcements by the big box stores that they would not sell guns to those under 21 has arrived.

The former Trump campaign official made the most of his 15 minutes of fame.

While Team Trump has gone out of its way to waylay the Russia investigation, this may not be is part of that effort.

Four social media stars have been fired from their television show after the revelation that Pamela Gellar is their mother.

Yet more absurdity from Brussels, where regulators seemingly don’t understand how the Internet works.

A recent change to the way the social media giant selects articles readers see first has crushed a web magazine.