Outside the Beltway

MAGA has eaten the Tea Party.

He’s more than just a kook.

Easy Come, Easy Go.

He’s suddenly a billionaire after all.

Millions of fools and their money may soon be parted.

It’s great for the well-off but increasingly problematic for the larger economy.

Cost cutting and the decline of venerable brands.

How far should the government be able to go?

If you can’t beat ’em, join ’em?

Hollywood and the news media are roiled in labor disputes.

The most popular television product is running out of room to expand.

There are too many products chasing too few consumers.

The Forward Party will almost certainly go nowhere.

The new honcho at the original 24 hour news network wants to be more subtle and less alarmest.

Does it matter whether she’s a rube or a mastermind?

A scandal within a scandal.

Not everyone is losing money.

Texas and Oklahoma have reopened Pandora’s Box.

A shameful farce continues to unfold.

Give him his damn respect.

How do we balance societal and individual rights during a pandemic?

More fallout from the consolidation of media brands.

One of America’s fist celebrity CEO’s has passed away at the age of 94.

Trump’s penchant for behaving more like a talk radio host than a POTUS continues unabated.

An odd bureaucratic reshuffling, seemingly out of the blue.

A new report demonstrates that the relationship between Fox News Channel and the Trump Administration is much closer and more pervasive than previously believed.

AT&T’s acquisition of DirecTV and TimeWarner is forcing price hikes that are driving customers away at a rapid clip.

Rest in Peace and Excelsior, Stan Lee!

The Administration is going to unveil a plan for a major reorganization of government agencies today.

For decades, it was the preeminent brand in American journalism. Now its pieces are being sold at bargain rates.

New documents reveal that the Limited Liability Company that paid off Stormy Daniels also received payments from a company linked to a Russian oligarch.

The Trump presidency is the latest step in treating commentators like policy experts. It is all a manifestation of how the modern GOP is a populist party.

For the fifth time in fifty years, Puerto Ricans will vote tomorrow on a referendum on statehood, but it’s not likely to have any impact on the island’s current status.

Yesterday, Hillary Clinton pointed out truths about Donald Trump that his fellow Republicans were too scared to point out during the primary..

A vote is still as much as two years away, and support for staying in the E.U. still has the most support, but support for the idea of a British exit from the European Union has grown in the past several months.

If pre-election polling is to be believed, Stephan Harper and Canada’s Conservative Party seem likely to lose power after Monday’s elections, but there are several reasons why this may not end up being the case.

The announcement of a potential merger between Burger King and Tim Horton’s has led to much moral preening from the usual suspects.

Big news, and potentially a big merger, in the entertainment industry.

As the medium matures, something important is being lost.

Newly disclosed details about the US role in Colombia.

Recent anti-corruption measures have contributed to making American government worse.

Newsweek is joining US News in getting out of the printed magazine business, leaving Time as the last old American newsweekly standing.

Rick Perry’s vision of capitalism doesn’t exactly comply with what Adam Smith had in mind.

Contrary to current conservative talking points, Net Neutrality is not a nefarious government scheme to takeover the Internet, but is aimed to address a real problem. Like most ideas that involve the government, though, it doesn’t really address the real source of the problem; not enough freedom