Outside the Beltway

The US intelligence community and Silicon Valley are warning of a major threat.

A regional chain registered it in 1989. Has it become generic?

A team of “sensitivity readers” has taken the bad thoughts out of some beloved children’s literature.

A proposed rule would increase the freedom of a huge segment of the labor force.

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

They’re stealing our secrets and working to undermine our elections.

But only the original books, not the Disney adaptations.

Should live-saving drugs be protected intellectual property?

The US has more shots available than willing arms while those in the developing world are dying.

Several trends are pointing in a new direction.

China and the U.S. have reached an initial trade deal that averts billions of dollars of new, inadvisable, tariffs, but the devil is in the details.

President Trump said this morning that he’s fine with letting his trade war with the rest of the world continue all the way to the 2020 election.

Economic analysts are growing increasingly worried that the President’s trade war could push the world economy into recession, and take the American economy along with it.

President Trump announced a new round of tariffs on Chinese goods set to take effect on September 1st Another stupid move in a very dumb trade war.

A new report suggests that the Chinese movie-going market will surpass the American market in 2020.

As he had threatened, President Trump has imposed new tariffs on Chinese goods, making a bad situation even worse.

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

200-odd Congressional Democrats are taking an odd route to go after corruption.

The findings are a dispiriting Rorschach test.

The Supreme Court is likely to finish striking down restrictions on offensive trademarks.

A racist scholar took some fascinating photos of an enslaved man in 1860. Now, his descendants want the rights to them.

I was wr-r-r-r-r-ong.

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

The damage done for Mickey Mouse in the name of Sony Bono is finally coming to an end.

A Federal Judge ruled late last week that a lawsuit under the Foreign Emoluments Clause by more than 200 Congressmen and Senators can proceed forward.

Thanks to a last-minute agreement, the United States and Canada reached an agreement for a revised version of NAFTA. It’s a got a new name, but it’s basically NAFTA 2.0.

President Trump’s much-hyped replacement for NAFTA doesn’t really amount to much and won’t amount to anything unless he can get Canada, and the U.S. Congress, on board.

As much as we hate paying $200 a month for television, the future is likely going to be worse.

President Trump appears to be ready to expand his ignorant, counterproductive trade war with China.

The ill-advised move is sure to raise costs for businesses and consumers and roil global stock markets.

President Trump once said that “trade wars are good and easy to win.” It’s only been three months since he started this war and we’re already finding out just how wrong he is about that.

A big win for Federalism and common sense at the Supreme Court.

For some reason, the President wants to help a Chinese company that has been accused of being a security risk by American intelligence services.

Trump suggests US might seek to rejoin the Trans-Pacific Partnership.

President Trump is continuing his dangerous and misguided trade war rhetoric,

Begun the trade wars have.

President Trump has alienated America’s allies and friends, and they are acting accordingly.

Just over one year after President Trump’s foolish and ill-informed decision to withdraw from the Trans-Pacific Partnership Canada has stepped in to rescue the deal.

Most Americans are unlikely to remember John Anderson, but he was a harbinger of things to come.

The Supreme Court has ruled that the Federal Government cannot deny trademark protection because a requested trademark is “disparaging” to a racial or ethnic group.

A ruling in an unrelated case raises serious doubts about the law used to revoke the Washington Redskins trademarks because they are allegedly ‘disparaging.’

The Foundation that holds the copyright on one of the most famous works about the Holocaust is seeking to extend their copyright in Europe by naming Otto Frank co-author of his daughter’s published diary.

A Federal Judge has ruled that the copyright to ‘Happy Birthday To You’ has been invalid for at least the past eighty years.

China adds to its status as the honey badger of intellectual property law.

Jawbone is suing Fitbit for infringing a patent that should never have been granted.

The Commerce Department had a Christmas present for investors, businesses, and consumers today.

The U.S. Government has formally charged North Korea with responsibility for the hacking attack on Sony. How to respond to that attack is a more complicated question.

Another example of the silliness of the “trade deficit” concept.