Outside the Beltway

Cancel culture on steroids.

The incentives for creating quality content are diminishing by the day.

The end of an era.

Thinking about ideology in the Trump era.

An attack on the First Amendment in plain sight.

The man who tried to prevent the vote from being counted last time is about to be certified President again.

Using money to control the GOP.

One thread that runs through most explanations for Tuesday’s result.

Hitting back at centibillionaires is hard.

Our immigration policy is out of sync with our economy.

An odd juxtaposition in the major press.

A second Trump presidency got much more likely last night.

A whopping $50 million donation from a single nepo baby put him over the top.

Its time has passed.

It is a bit of a mess.

Easy Come, Easy Go.

Anticompetitive practices in one of the most competitive of markets.

The experience keeps getting worse.

The food is too damn high!

A sign of the Times.

Cold hard facts.

Making 2024 about 2021 and 1777.

The anti-Trump forces are rallying around the former South Carolina governor and UN ambassador.

Abortion, an unrepresentative electorate, and candidate idiosyncracy ruled the off-off-year election.

America’s involvement in the Israeli and Ukrainian war efforts is more than advertised.

The game is the game.

Has the search goliath gotten worse?

How something so promising became so frustrating.

A surpringly large number tuned in to see people who won’t be the nominee.

The current business model is collapsing. It’s about time.

A standoff over social issues may derail a $900 billion budget bill.

The Electoral College is holding a nation of millions back.

Should businesses have to include taxes and other fees in their advertised price?

The North Dakota governor really, really wants to be on TV.

Damned if they do and damned if they don’t. Sometimes both.

A regional chain registered it in 1989. Has it become generic?

Did the Trump stunt backfire? Or just an anomaly?

BuzzFeed, Disney, and others are making big cuts.

A symbolic gesture is now highly impractical, if not harmful.

Who should pay whom for what?

The controversial AI has some interesting programming quirks.

An illegal practice that won’t go away.

A look back at two decades of blogging.

The anti-Trump Republican could find re-election difficult.

Eric Adams is begging for the Federal Government for relief.

Mike Pompeo’s PAC wants you to know that Mike Pompeo’s book is a “thriller with stories from the heart” of Mike Pompeo

Some thoughts on polling and the news since 2016.

Why a paper got the story right and no one paid attention and polls over opposition research