Outside the Beltway

Reading habits continue to evolve, not necessarily for the better.

Paywalls are not our problem.

He boldly went where no nonagenarian had gone before.

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

Magical? Impressive? Or just too much money?

An ad boycott has the Facebook co-founder down to his last $82.3 billion.

Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos alone have lost $15 billion in net worth since January.

A bittersweet farewell to a newspaperman past his sell-by date.

A strangely under-publicized story.

Anchoring of CBS Evening News is not what it used to be.

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

His colum in WaPo isn’t very good.

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

Thanks mostly to political opposition that misrepresented the nature of the deal it had made, Amazon has abandoned plans to locate parts of its new headquarters in New York City.

The publisher of the National Enquirer is learning that it may have been a mistake to go to war against Jeff Bezos.

Amazon has joined Apple to become the second American corporation to reach $1,000,000,000,000 in market valuation.

The American public is not sold on the idea of a ‘Space Force.’

The 34-year-old Facebook tycoon is now worth more than 87-year-old Warren Buffet.

Seemingly out of nowhere yesterday, the Commander-in-Chief ordered the Pentagon to create a fifth service.

President Trump continues his unhinged, and unsupported by facts, war on Amazon and its owner Jeff Bezos by pressuring an independent agency to raise shipping rates.

The Postal Service is losing billions of dollars, but not for the reasons the President claims.

President Trump won’t attend nerd prom again this year. That’s a good thing.

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.

President Trump announced a goal of returning American astronauts to the Moon, but that’s easier said than done.

Donald Trump gave a campaign-style speech in Phoenix last night and reminded us of everything that’s wrong with him.

In a short period of time, SpaceX has become a huge success, as has the commercial space launch industry.

Donald Trump’s open contempt for the Rule of Law and Freedom of the Press should disqualify him from being considered an acceptable candidate for President.

Another historic launch and return by SpaceX.

Last night, SpaceX successfully launched a rocket to the edge of space, deployed cargo, and returned to Earth. A huge and potentially revolutionary accomplishment.

While the issue of income inequality is quite real, Oxfam’s numbers are not.

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

Some thoughts on Amazon’s new smartphone: Fire

Adding paywalls isn’t stopping the decline of the newspaper industry.

Does it matter if companies make a profit?

On the day that news broke that Ezra Klein and Wonkblog are leaving the Washington Post, the Volokh Conspiracy made its debut there.

Wonkblog’s founder is leaving the Washington Post to start a new media outlet of his own.

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

For a guy who just bought a newspaper, Jeff Bezos wasn’t too optimistic about their future less than a year ago.

One of the nation’s papers of record is changing owners for the first time in 80 years.

Sometimes, we just ought to accept the fact that people have disagreements when it comes to hot-button social issues.

Borders Books is closing, because the free market works.

Electronic books outsold paper books on Amazon over the past three months, but the death of the hardcover is greatly exaggerated.