Outside the Beltway

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.

My latest for The Hill, co-authored with Butch Bracknell: “Explaining the Sinclair demotion.”

There’s really no better word for it than blackmail.

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

How the richest man in the world quickly changed the education curriculum in 45 states.

Bring in the lawyers!

It’s simple: We just have to define the problem and then solve it.

Two experts debate the topic, demonstrating how little we really know.

The advice “Do what you love. Love what you do” is not without pitfalls.

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

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

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

Managers want their employees to get off email and pick up the phone.

Thanks to one question from one Senator, we learned yesterday that the FBI has used surveillance drones inside the United States.

Not only do we not know the whole story of the NSA data mining operation, key details of what thought we knew are wrong.

Big Brother is doing more than just checking your phone records.

The US Senate wants to know why Apple and other big technology companies are paying so little into the US Treasury.

The Swing And A Miss Edition OTB Caption Contest^TM is now over.

With its most recent “upgrade,” Gmail has become much less useful to its best customers.

Why does the stock market care if there is an explosion at the White House?

Desktop PC sales fell by nearly 14% in the first quarter, continuing an ongoing trend. There are many reasons this is happening.

Apple has won a huge victory in the smart phone patent wars. If the news reporting is accurate, the outcome doesn’t pass the common sense test.

TechCrunch’s Alexia Tsotsis declares “Siri Is The New Clippy.”

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

Farhad Manjoo is trying the demo version of Microsoft Word 2013—which he likes—but notices something out of place.

Microsoft sold its cable stake in MSNBC years ago; now, it’s ending ties with the MSNBC.com website, too.

Contrary to what you’re hearing, the Facebook I.P.O. was a huge success.

The Obama campaign’s focus on Mitt Romney’s years at Bain Capital don’t seem to be working.

Google’s Chrome browser has overtaken Microsoft’s Internet Explorer to become the most used browser in the world.

With Facebook’s huge IPO in the news, Megan Garber takes a look at how much the Internet has evolved since Thefacebook came on the scene.

The next generation search engine may not point to Web pages at all.

The combined value of Apple’s stock is more than the GDP of some countries.

Mitt Romney is taking heat for his role at Bain Capital. He shouldn’t.

Life, it turns out, isn’t fair.