Outside the Beltway

Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the 21st Century is making quite a splash.

Tomorrow, the Supreme Court will hear argument in a case that will likely be this era’s version of the Betamax case.

A big setback for the UAW.

Does it matter if companies make a profit?

Thanks to a Federal District Court Judge, most of Sherlock Holmes is now in the public domain.

Consumers share some of the blame for the late delivery problems that last minute shoppers experienced this Christmas season.

UPS and FedEx underestimated their capacity needs and failed to deliver packages in time for Christmas.

If Amazon gives discounts to people with children, is it acceptable to falsely claim you have a child in order to get a discount?

The Supreme Court may have just given a boost to those who want to subject online sales to the same sales taxes as in-person sales.

Jeff Bezos’s latest idea may never get off the ground, but it sure is interesting.

Some signs from Silicon Valley seem to indicate that the heady days of the 90s Tech Bubble are returning.

The Obama White House dropped some big news as everyone headed out of town.

It is clear the President has been failed by those under him. So, when is someone going to pay the price?

As expected, the enrollment numbers for Obamacare are far below where they were expected to be.

Amazon’s new deal with the USPS offers a way out of the agency’s problems if only Congress would give up its last bit of control.

Author Elmore Leonard has died at the age of 87.

For a guy who just bought a newspaper, Jeff Bezos wasn’t too optimistic about their future less than a year ago.

One of the nation’s papers of record is changing owners for the first time in 80 years.

The soft underbelly of the post-ownership society.

The days of tax-free online shopping are coming to an end.

The CIA will soon be storing our nation’s most sensitive information with a private company.

Thanks to the CFTC, Americans will no longer be able to participate in Intrade’s predictions markets.

Reports of the Twinkie’s death have been exaggerated.

Technically, you don’t own your digital music files. That means you can’t transfer them to your heirs after you die.

This charge is false, as 10 minutes’ work by the Washington Post would have shown.

Storing all your data in the cloud isn’t necessarily a good idea.

The President’s former Budget Director joins the ranks of those calling for Postal privatization.

Sometimes, we just ought to accept the fact that people have disagreements when it comes to hot-button social issues.

We’ve reached a point where our wonder at modern technology fades almost instantaneously and is replaced by annoyance that our technology isn’t better

Jeffrey Goldberg asks, “What if Mitt Romney were Jewish?”

Recipe plagiarism and a bonus tale.

Google’s Chrome browser has overtaken Microsoft’s Internet Explorer to become the most used browser in the world.

The argument that Barack Obama hasn’t been vetted is simply absurd.

Rick Santorum’s views on the role of religion in public life are built on lies about American history.

Trying to construct Gingrich’s c.v.

“I would never let anybody write something for me,” Matthews says. “Why do you think I’m like that? It’s amazing to me that you think I’m some lightweight, glib bullshit artist that has somebody do his work for him. The writing is the hard part, the composition.”

Everyone’s talking about jobs again. And it’s not a pretty picture.

The decision to split Netflix into two companies makes no sense. Unless you look behind the scenes.