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

Senior DOJ officials from the previous three administrations back the Obama DOJ’s controversial subpoenaing of AP conversations.

Christine Fox, the real-life inspiration for Charlie of “Top Gun,” and the casual sexism of 1985.

After many attempts to manufacture grand scandals out of very little, Republicans may finally have a legitimate outrage on their hands.

President Obama delivered another powerful speech on race.

Fifty years after Edmund Hillary’s historic ascent, Everest is crowded with guided tours and littered with the corpses of inexperienced climbers.

Michael Kinsley contends “Being against marriage equality doesn’t make you a monster.”

Social scientists take note: the press has gotten bored with Syria, so your data are no longer reliable.

A San Francisco bacon restaurant smells like bacon. Thankfully, a compromise has been reached.

Native speakers instinctively notice syntactical errors, but not ordinary “grammar errors.”

The economics of higher education is increasing the gap between rich and poor.

The OTB Reader Survey posted a week ago today generated a solid discussion.

My latest for The National Interest, “Kenneth Waltz’s Crucial Logic,” has posted.

Google is taking PayPal and Bitcoin on head on. They’re likely to win.

Popular Science is keeping the recent surge of stories on electric vehicles going with “8 Things You Should Know About Electric Cars.”

A generation of kids with massive student loans and no prospects is bad news for the status quo.

The under-35 set are buying cars at a lower rate than they used to.

Shockingly, there are high calorie items on the menu at Jared’s favorite sandwich shop.

Critics are assailing Disney for turning “Brave” protagonist Merida into just another princess.

We’re actually not speculating about who might be running any more than we used to.

Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield performs David Bowie’s classic “Space Oddity” from outer space.

We rely on death certificates for epidemiology studies. But they’re incredibly unreliable.

The noted wine critic Robert Parker recently forayed into reviewing bourbon and came under intense fire from enthusiasts of American whiskey.

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

ThinkProgress’ Hayes Brown reports that, contrary to his claim that he was demoted for speaking up on the Benghazi attacks, Gregory Hicks was instead demoted for being a bad manager.

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

John McCain is taking a break from advocating yet another war in the Middle East to make war against cable television companies.

We’re soliciting reader feedback on three related questions.

Ashleigh Banfield of CNN and Nancy Grace of CNN’s Headline News staged a bizarre split-screen interview on two breaking true crime stories despite being 30 feet from one another in the same parking lot.

Yesterday’s hearings shed more light while also raising yet more questions to which we’ll likely never get a satisfactory answer.

My latest for The National Interest, “Never Again, Except This Time,” has posted.

It’s 365 days and counting since the last reported case of piracy in the Horn of Africa.

Some are criticizing the US government subsidies to Tesla Motors for its Model S electric car, which sells for almost $100,000. Kevin Bullis argues that it’s a smart investment.

A super-secret, super-secure alternative internet has been operating at Los Alamos National Labs for two and a half years.

Three women missing for more than ten years have been found alive, apparently kidnapped by three brothers in Cleveland.

Pfizer will soon start selling Viagra direct to customers online. Given how much Viagra spam OTB has gotten over the years, I assumed it has always been available online.

In a fascinating project, four sisters are photographed each year from 1976 to 2010.

The infamous “red line” may not have been crossed after all. At least not by the Assad regime.

Long suffering fans of the Dallas Cowboys, including myself and Steven Taylor, have a love-hate relationship with owner-general manager Jerry Jones. cowb

Today, LinkedIn celebrates its tenth anniversary. It’s 225 million members are apparently using it as some sort of business network for some purpose.

Ezra Klein has a really smart piece titled “How Van Halen explains Obamacare, salmon regulation and scientific grants.”

The world’s first entirely 3-D printed gun is now a reality.

Last night, the Atlantic Council honored Hillary Rodham Clinton, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, John S. Watson, Tony Bennett, and Juanes.

There’s simply no question that a person born abroad to a US citizen is a ‘natural-born Citizen.’

The soft underbelly of the post-ownership society.

The story of an American Green Beret found living in Vietnam 44 years after he had been declared dead appears to be a hoax.