Outside the Beltway

USA! USA! USA!

Todd Lyons, acting Director of ICE provides the latest example.

The real crime is what’s legal.

There are 800 or so of them in the United States alone. Where the hell did they come from?

Oh my.

Trump, Bezos, and the slippery slope of authoritarianism.

Hitting back at centibillionaires is hard.

The search giant lost a major court battle. What’s next?

Spying on customers is expensive.

It’s a cottage industry.

A truckload of deplorables.

Virginia’s governor is finding running a state harder than running a venture capitalist firm.

Anticompetitive practices in one of the most competitive of markets.

It’s great for the well-off but increasingly problematic for the larger economy.

Also: the media landscape is currently evolving.

Steamboat Willie is about to be ripe for exploitation.

Hasan Minhaj is a serial liar. Does it matter?

The President’s support for labor and aggressive action on climate change are in tension.

The Justice Department claims the search giant abused its power.

How something so promising became so frustrating.

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

The evidence is pretty thin.

As much as we complain about them, they’ve become indispensable for most of us.

If something cannot go on forever, it will stop.

Should we reform the way we train a high-tech workforce?

Get me higher than the grocery bill.

Why Google isn’t AltaVista.

They’re not nearly as customer-friendly as they used to be.

Some predict a fundamental restructuring of the economy.

They’re fighting for fair treatment. They’ll likely lose.

A pending lawsuit seeks to settle those questions.

When the product changes after you bought it.

Should we expect privacy from our own cameras?

A true hodge-podge.

Understandable efforts to protect their market share are alienating customers who think they’re doing nothing wrong.

Weirdly, politicians who don’t understand the debt ceiling also don’t understand other things.

A lot of huge investments have failed for a variety of reasons.

Where do we draw the line?

Cities across the United States are taking the wrong approach to a crisis.

The anti-McCarthy holdouts have no end game.

But did he ever really have it?

The biggest entertainment product in America is getting bigger.

Did you even notice?

A showdown over wages could upend the apprenticeship arrangement that has long characterized graduate education.

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

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

Manipulating public opinion with dubious survey research.