Outside the Beltway

A journalistic legend has passed away just days after his retirement was officially announced.

A political earthquake north of the border.

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.

Ubiquitous tracking isn’t all bad.

Can a country entry reap the benefits of the connected age while successfully tying down the Internet?

Once dominant atop the smartphone market, Blackberry seems to be counting out the days until its demise.

Tragedy in Boston.

Apparently, some significant number of people are starving themselves to “save calories” for getting drunk.

The Captain Jack Edition OTB Caption Contest^TM is now over.

Americans should be thankful when our presidents take time off.

My first piece for The New Republic, “Why the Obama Administration’s Drone War May Soon Reach a Tipping Point,” is up.

Seven of the top ten and fifteen of the top twenty universities on the planet are American.

The Postal Service announced another round of service cutbacks today that are likely to just make the rapidity of its decline increase

Protests at least loosely affiliated with the Occupy Wall Street movement were conducted around the globe yesterday.

Canada is much friendlier than the United States with regard to immigration.

It is waaay too early to be putting much stock in polling for 2012 (either in terms of X v. Obama or GOP v. GOP).

Players have taken control of the NBA from the owners. That’s bad for fans. But probably a good thing.

IBM’s Watson computer crushed human competitors on Jeopardy. What does it mean?

Did LeBron James pick Miami because of income taxes ? Probably not.

Cleveland Cavaliers owner reacted to his star player’s departure with a scathing open letter. Was it fair?