Outside the Beltway

The news gets worse.

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

Politics, media, and the attention span of the average American haven’t really changed as much as we think.

Let’s think about how the media operates.

After eight years in a coma, Ariel Sharon has passed away.

Without a deal of some kind, it’s quite likely that Edward Snowden will remain beyond the reach of U.S. law enforcement or some time to come.

The Justice Department is reportedly not planning to prosecute Wikileaks founder Julian Assange in connection with the Bradley Manning case.

NSA Director General Keith Alexander really doesn’t like the idea of a free press.

Starbucks is kindly asking customers not to bring guns to their stores.

In both Egypt and Syria, it’s damned if we do and damned if we don’t.

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.

A business move that signals the continuing death of the newspaper industry.

ABC News selectively edited their interview with Juror B29 to give a false impression of what she said.

A new study says Twitter doesn’t break news faster than the wires. But nobody claims it does.

The French were indignant about reports of the NSA’s surveillance programs. Now we know they have own of their own.

Public trust in the news media, along with many other institutions, continues to fall. That’s troublesome for many reasons.

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

Should bloggers be treated the same as “journalists” for the purpose of the protections granted by media shield laws?

POLITICO is joining the stampede toward metered paywalls. In a twist, it will remain free in regions where it’s most popular.

The reality of gun violence in the United States is far different from the story the media is telling us.

It would be nice if columnists for major newspapers would consult political science, rather than Hollywood, for their understanding of our system.

The man who changed the way Americans viewed newspapers, just before newspapers themselves began getting pushed aside by technology, has died at the age of 89.

Matt Yglesias has a smart push-back against the lamentations of the decline of journalism.

Senator Rob Portman changes his position on same-sex marriage. Another sign of the times.

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If nothing else, the Petraeus affair is teaching us a valuable lesson in just how extensive the Surveillance State has become.

Utility crews from Alabama traveled to New Jersey to help get the power back on. They were turned away on account of not being unionized.

Newspaper endorsements are getting a lot of attention in the closing days of the campaign, but do they really matter?

A victory for advocates of Voter ID laws in a Washington, D.C. Federal Court.

There are signs that some Romney supporters have already decided their candidate is going to lose.

Public distrust of the media is at an all-time high. It’s easy to see why.

Seth Mnookin laments a series of embarrassing failures in science writing in recent months but rejoices in the rich dialog that followed.