Outside the Beltway

The Internet is a global platform. Should every country’s laws apply to everyone using it?

The new President of the National Rifle Association has a new theory to explain mass shootings, but there’s no basis for believing it’s accurate.

Russia wasn’t the only nation that sent people to meet with Trump Campaign officials at Trump Tower back in 2016 regarding assistance to the Trump Campaign.

New York attorney Aaron Schlossberg found himself on the receiving end of an Internet firestorm this week. His case raises some interesting questions about Internet vigilantism.

The Mueller investigation turns one year old today and, despite the arguments of Trump and his supporters, there’s no sign that it will be coming to an end in the near future.

A surprise announcement about the First Lady.

The Trump White House has leaked more than any in recent memory. Some of the leakers have explained what motivates them.

For Donald Trump and his supporters, “Fake News” means any news that doesn’t shower enough praise on him.

To paraphrase the late Dennis Green, he is who we thought he was. 

Failed Senate candidate Roy Moore is suing several of the women who accused him of sexual misconduct during last year’s campaign.

It takes a whole lot of work to net small gains for underrepresented groups.

The Democratic National Committee has filed a lawsuit alleging a wide-ranging conspiracy to influence the 2016 election. As a legal document, it appears to be little more than a political stunt.

Randa Jarrar was classless and contemptible, which is protected by the First Amendment. As a tenured state employee so is her job.

Sean Hannity was Michael Cohen’s “secret client,” but it’s not clear that should matter to anyone.

Whoops.

Even the United Nations has given up trying to maintain an accurate estimate.

Once again, President Trump’s foreign policy tweeting is causing problems.

Mark Zuckerberg’s second day before Congress was somewhat more contentious than the first, but at the end of the day it’s still unclear that more regulation is the answer to the issues raised by recent Facebook “scandals.”

President Trump took to Twitter this morning and decided poke a stick in the eye of the Russian bear.

Not surprisingly, a joint Senate Committee failed to really lay a glove on Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg at yesterday’s hearing.

You many have noticed the array of images and links under the footer of post pages. Here’s what it is.

Argumentation without the intent to persuade is masturbation, not journalism.

A woman who was fired after a photograph of her giving the middle finger to President Trump’s motorcade went viral is suing her former employer. She doesn’t have much of a case.

Old-fashioned notions of journalistic neutrality are chafing young reporters in the Age of Trump.

A blog post and resulting Twitter exchange point to a larger problem in our political dialog.

The woman who wounded three people at the video company before killing herself posted insane rants all over social media.

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.

Under the proposal certain visa-seekers (such as China and India) would have to have their social media presence scrutinized.

The grand gesture may put undue pressure on women in making an important life decision.

The woman who lost the 2016 election is apparently not going to go away.

Organizing protests was the easy part. The hard part for those who would seek to expand gun regulations is yet to come.

Former Playboy model Karen McDougal is suing the publisher of the National Enquirer for the right to tell her story of an alleged affair with President Trump in 2006.

The network’s longtime “strategic analyst” is “ashamed” of his association because they’ve become a “propaganda machine.”

Sometimes, it’s all in the framing.

After a year in space, Astronaut Scott Kelly was no longer 100% genetically identical to his twin brother. However, the changes are not as significant as initial media reports made them out to be.

The Treasury Department has designated five entities and 19 individuals tied to the Russian government for cyber espionage.

CJR’s Dan Mitchell has a tiny quibble with a recent viral NYT thumbsucker. 

The Judge presiding over the lawsuit brought by a group of Twitter users blocked by President Trump may have sent a hint about how she’s inclined to rule during a hearing this week.

Netflix no longer offers President Frank Underwood. They’re lining up a replacement.

Witnesses say another student was “showing off his gun.”

The legal distinction between “personal capacity” and “official capacity” makes no sense for senior presidential appointees.

The inevitable response to announcements by the big box stores that they would not sell guns to those under 21 has arrived.

POLITICO buries the lede in making the case for “Donald Trump’s bubble presidency.”

Four social media stars have been fired from their television show after the revelation that Pamela Gellar is their mother.

South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham says war against North Korea would be worth it. Ignoring the fact that it would result in casualties unlike anything America has seen since the Vietnam War.

Yet more absurdity from Brussels, where regulators seemingly don’t understand how the Internet works.

President Trump continues to deny the reality of Russian interference in the 2016 campaign, and he’s failing to act to make sure it doesn’t happen again.

A recent change to the way the social media giant selects articles readers see first has crushed a web magazine.

Dick’s Sporting Goods will no longer sell “assault weapons” at any of its stores, and will limit the sale of any gun to people aged 21 and above.

China’s Xi Jinping solidified his hold on power well into the next decade over the weekend.