Outside the Beltway

The President will be the 2024 Democratic nominee. Get used to it.

Headline News Network is shuttering after four decades.

Sports fans enjoy watching sports. How much does politics impact that?

The margins for 2024 are likely to be slim. But that hides a larger story.

Another frivolous suit making a mockery of the American tort system.

The most popular television product is running out of room to expand.

Would bypassing politicians altogether make the system more just?

Publishers and consumers want very different business models.

Reading habits continue to evolve, not necessarily for the better.

A shameful stunt reminiscent of an even darker era.

Paywalls are not our problem.

Four dollars and change at the pump.
The cost of livin’s high and goin’ up.

The legendary comic book artist is gone at 80.

Brussels has gotten ahead of Washington in regulating mostly American-based Internet companies.

Actions deemed unthinkable days earlier are suddenly mandatory.

The longtime aggregator is now serving mostly non-news content.

Russia may invade Ukraine again. The United States would prefer otherwise.

The appetite for content and clicks turns sensationalizes news that isn’t news.

The veteran character actor has died of cancer at 66.

The longtime TV pitchman is gone.

Most aren’t worth the paper they’re printed on.

A law seeking to help the state’s workers seems to be having the opposite effect.

Should he be worried about the appearance of partisan gaming?

The author of beloved children’s books is gone at 91.

The fact-checkers blew this one and blew it big.

An interesting but uneven debate.

The Internet killed the newspaper without really replacing it.

The Trump Presidency has been a long con.

A myriad of possible explanations.

COVID has given us a surreal calendar.

Ignoring religious diversity makes polarization much worse.

The Electoral College is once again having the opposite effect of what its defenders claim.

The venerable military newspaper lives to print another day.

Yet another incumbent has lost his primary contest.

It’s much easier to fund bad information than good.

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

An ad boycott has the Facebook co-founder down to his last $82.3 billion.

The President has been Twitter on their own platform. Now, he’s following through.

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

The venerable magazine is following industry trends. Is the billionaire owner a monster?

Or just a bump in the road?

The wagons have been circled.

Not a great night for the former New York major. But he still has $54.5 billion to comfort him.

The billionaire has decided to stop tilting at windmills.

We seem to be in a new reality. Will readers accept it?

Anti-Biden ads using the former President’s words are being aimed at black voters.

There’s no way to catch him in a six-candidate field.

Competing in fourteen states plus overseas territories in one day is expensive.

Most national pundits saw it differently than I did.

(Or not. Part 1,276,524).