Outside the Beltway

The Internet killed the newspaper without really replacing it.

Vaccinations are not keeping up with recklessness.

The Excelsior Pass is the nation’s first. Will it start a trend?

We’re about to spend a whole lot more money.

Our insistence on relying on an 18th Century understanding of electoral systems is our ongoing bane (if one values representative government).

There are legitimate ethical and liberty questions but they’re outweighed by the benefits.

The fear of missing out is strong.

And a discussion of markets (and a warning about partisanship).

There’s more than enough opinion journalism.

Fox Business has abruptly sidelined its most popular host.

Every illegal immigrant would have a path to citizenship.

The science and ethics are not the hardest part of determining who should go first.

Our enemies are getting more brazen and sophisticated in their cyber warfare.

The new Ford Mustang may be the harbinger of things to come.

Masklessly criss-crossing the country.

That thing that happens when you sow the wind with conspiracy theories.

So, it turns out that Fox News wasn’t really all that fair or balanced.

The lies aren’t working anymore.

The stakes of losing will be catastrophic. Either way.

Alabama’s head football coach and athletic director have both tested positive for COVID-19.

Rudy Giuliani and a hack tabloid are trying to revive the Burisma story.

A new company has reinvented the communication tool that people love to hate.

The lousy hybrid option has been scrapped in favor of a worthless virtual one.

Online instruction is an inferior product. But it’s more expensive to deliver.

Sometimes, a cigar is just a cigar.

The regime’s crackdown on their Muslim minority is worse than imagined.

The architect of the plan admits he was wrong.

Should government be taking harsher measures against smoking, car crashes, and the flu?

More Americans are out of work than at any time since the Great Depression.

He’s doubling down on hypocrisy.

It’s about damned time.

Contrary to some expectations, Americans are logging three extra hours of work a day.

Some informed speculation.

A fiasco wrapped in a clusterfuck.

The pandemic is massively more livable given modern technology.

Everything is easier with money.

How do we balance societal and individual rights during a pandemic?

The Daily: “Alone Together”

Several trends are pointing in a new direction.

It’s more embarrassing than we thought.

Cyber security experts are quite alarmed.

Our measures for preventing abuse of our social welfare system are preventing those who need it most go without.

Regulars beware: this is a total deviation from normal content.

The DPRK is promising a “gift” to the United States. The only question seems to be what form it will take.

China and the U.S. have reached an initial trade deal that averts billions of dollars of new, inadvisable, tariffs, but the devil is in the details.

An interesting albeit dubious selection for Person of the Year.

René Auberjonois, a long time character actor best known for his roles on Benson and Star Trek: Deep Space NIne, has died at 79.

WIth North Korea’s end of the year deadline for progress on talks quickly approaching, it is clear that the Trump Administration’s policies with regard to the DPRK have failed.