Outside the Beltway

A Google Executive jumps from the edge of space, breaking a record.

Law enforcement remains unhappy about the recent changes that will make it harder to break into a locked smartphone.

Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott has made an incredibly weak argument in favor of his state’s ban on same-sex marriage.

Frank Foer proclaims, “Amazon Must Be Stopped. It’s too big. It’s cannibalizing the economy.”

Attorneys for celebrities caught up in the leak of nude photographs are targeting Google.

We’ve got one foot in two very different technological worlds.

Danny Sullivan reflects on the end of another era.

The FBI and other law enforcement agencies are pushing back against Apple and Google’s efforts to provide greater privacy to users.. They’re wrong.

While it still seems unlikely that he’ll run, Mitt Romney does seem to be leaving the door open to a third run at the White House.

A recent change by Apple is good news for advocates of privacy and civil liberties in the Internet Age.

Dedicated reading improves our brains and our health—unless it’s on a computer screen.

Our laws and social norms have not caught up to modern life.

Just in time for the midterms, Todd Akin is back to remind voters of the GOP’s problems with female voters.

Judging by the early results, the so-called “Right To Be Forgotten” recently created by Europe’s highest court is creating more problems than it will solve.

Rush Limbaugh is still really, really angry about subsidized birth control. And lots of other stuff.

Another area where the law has not caught up with technology.

Some thoughts on Amazon’s new smartphone: Fire

Should the police be able to track you without a warrant? One Federal Appeals Court says no.

The so-called “right to be forgotten” created by Europe’s highest court is unworkable, and ultimately absurd.

Tomorrow, the Supreme Court will hear argument in a case that will likely be this era’s version of the Betamax case.

.Wonkblog’s “Wal-Mart has a lower acceptance rate than Harvard” is rightly drawing some eye-rolling.

When will BG Jeffrey Sinclair get an effing haircut?

The president went there.

One of the perils of the Internet age is that companies constantly go belly up, leaving their customers in a lurch

About 1,000 same-sex couples married in Utah before the Supreme Court stay find themselves in an odd legal limbo.

Seven years ago, Steve Jobs showed us that we could literally hold the world in the palm of our hand.

In a new interview, Edward Snowden explains his motives for absconding from the country with NSA secrets.

Once again, Chris Christie seems to be directly challenging the right wing of his party.

A potentially big legal setback for a big National Security Agency program.

Some on the American right have a very odd view of both Nelson Mandela and the Apartheid regime he fought against.

Jeff Bezos’s latest idea may never get off the ground, but it sure is interesting.

Some signs from Silicon Valley seem to indicate that the heady days of the 90s Tech Bubble are returning.

The Hello You… Edition OTB Caption Contest^TM is now over.

Another Federal Court has declared the PPACA’s contraceptive coverage mandate to be unconstitutional.

Nick Brown spelled bullshit and managed to debunk an entire academic subfield.

Why the federal government is so bad at information technology and getting worse by the day.

Day One of the Obamacare online “marketplaces” is proving to be a bit of a bumpy ride.

An odd lawsuit out of France.