Outside the Beltway

Has the search goliath gotten worse?

The mainstream media isn’t and shouldn’t become a counterpart to the right-wing infotainment complex.

An unconvincing column from an old pro.

How far should the government be able to go?

Yet more allegations.

A legal defense without merit.

Hollywood and the news media are roiled in labor disputes.

Who should pay whom for what?

When the product changes after you bought it.

Newspapers across the country are dropping the popular strip over a racist rant.

The soccer legend has passed at 82.

How an apparent serial fabulist got elected to Congress

Headline News Network is shuttering after four decades.

Journalists openly root for a good story.

Publishers and consumers want very different business models.

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

96-year-olds are living on borrowed time.

CNN’s original anchorman is gone at 82.

The nature of American political reporting distorts our perception of reality.

Paywalls are not our problem.

Japan’s longest-serving prime minister was killed at a campaign rally. He was 67.

From the Cliché File.

The obstacles to fixing the problem are many.

An extraordinary example shines light on coercive factors that incentivize plea deals

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

The legendary AP politics reporter is gone at 87.

The great conservative humorist is gone at 74.

How do we know when our government is telling us the truth?

The longtime aggregator is now serving mostly non-news content.

People, details do in fact matter!

Are Fauci, the CDC, and others getting a bum rap?

A long peek at history in the making.

A media critic argues we pay outsized attention to the goings-on at Fox, MSNBC, and CNN.

Our reactions to recent murder trials tells us a lot about our divided country.

The appetite for content and clicks turns sensationalizes news that isn’t news.

The first modern stand-up comedian has died at 94.

Our brains are wired to seek approval but may not be equipped to handle our modern existence.

Not everyone is losing money.

Grandstanding in the midst of chaos is a bad look.

When “the news” isn’t just “the news.”

The Internet killed the newspaper without really replacing it.

Some reflections

Historical precedents fall apart when we’re in a truly unprecedented time.

The legal debates are unsettled but we can all agree that Rand Paul is a moron.

Same endless song, different verse.

The venerable military newspaper lives to print another day.

Telecommuting has taken a bite out of an industry built on commuting.

The President is desperate and unwell and the press is making no bones about it.

As the President becomes less popular, there are signs he’s losing support from his co-partisans in Congress.