Outside the Beltway

Microsoft Internet Explorer 9 could be a Google killer. It could also kill the Web as we know it.

Sports Illustrated is trying to force subscribers to pay for a bundle of web and print services. Bad idea.

House Democrats are calling on Justice Clarence Thomas to recuse himself from any litigation regarding the Affordable Care Act. It’s a phony argument, but that’s because it has everything to do with politics and nothing to do with legal ethics.

AOL has bought the Huffington Post. But, really, it’s the other way around: HuffPo has taken over AOL.

A woman in California has filed a lawsuit against McDonald’s because she is apparently unable to resist her child’s incessant demands for a Happy Meal.

Several smart center-left commentators argue that President Obama is not triangulating. At least one argues there’s no such thing.

Despite recurring predictions that the Internet and mass communications would allow people to work from anywhere, talent continues to cluster in big cities.

The American copyright system is broken. Cory Doctorow offers some useful suggestions for fixing it.

While health experts warn Americans to cut the amount of fat in their diet, the Federal Government helps businesses like Domino’s and Taco Bell promote high-fat products to the public.

After three months, Rupert Murdoch’s strategy of walling off the Times websites isn’t looking so smart.

Ezra Klein argues that Sarah Palin’s Twitter account isn’t very popular. But that misses the point.

A News Corporation donation to a group opposition a ballot initiative in California is casting doubt on the objectivity of reporting at Fox Business Channel

Lisa Murkowski, who lost the Republican primary, may be on the verge of winning re-election as a sore-loser write-in.

Remember that $400 tax cut President Obama gave you? Neither do 90 percent of Americans.

Will Digital Video Recorders kill the campaign commercial? Unfortunately, no.

A group of conservative activists is planning a last minute ad blitz that could help put several Republican challengers over the top.

Republicans are suddenly targeting — and Democrats in some cases are conceding — House seats that were until recently considered out of play.

President Obama and the Democrats are charging the Chamber of Commerce of funneling foreign money into ads for Republicans. It’s a desperate move unlikely to work.

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas’s wife Virginia is under scrutiny ? Why ? Because she has a job.

InstaPaper’s business model is stealing content created by others, stripping it of the ads that pay the creators, and running their own advertising on it.

No Senate candidate with a lead of more than 5.5 points in the polling average, with 30 days to go in the race, has lost his race since 1998: these candidates are 68-0.

Craig Newmark thinks NPR’s membership model will overtake advertising-supported news over the next decade.

Even with some key seats trending Democrat, Republicans are primed to take over both Houses of Congress come November 2.

Bob Woodward reports that President Obama was looking for options other than staying the course in Afghanistan. The military didn’t provide any.

Thanks to the Internet, there are a lot more Willy Lomans out there.

In yet another sign of how rapidly the media landscape is changing, longtime Newsweek stalwart is leaving for the Huffington Post.

Christine O’Donnell is buying ads on posts arguing that the party screwed itself by voting for her in yesterday’s Republican primary.

Everyone from David Petraeus to Sarah Palin is speaking out against a nutbag pastor’s Koran burning event. While they’re right, they’re emphasizing the wrong message.

It’s getting harder and harder to tell blogs from newspapers.

Marco Rubio is currently leading the three way race for the open Florida Senate seat, despite not spending a dime on television advertising in recent months.

Most people who record television shows skip the commercials. Despite that, TV remains by far the most effective form of advertising.

According to John Bolton, Israel has a deadline of August 21st to attack Iran’s nuclear program. This is the fourth deadline he’s set in the last three years.

Blogs are all grown up now and indistinguishable from other online media.

Angle is smartly focusing her commercials on the economy, and it is helping her numbers.

You’ve probably seen a lot of these signs popping up lately.

The evidence that humans are irrational continues to mount. What does this mean for self-governance?

Many of us who have philosophical objections to public radio nonetheless like the results.

The legendary food police are going after Ronald McDonald and his Happy Meals.

In conjunction with Father’s Day, the Obama administration unveiled Fatherhood.gov, a website offering advice to men on raising kids. Why is this a job for the federal government?