Outside the Beltway

Is media coverage of experts’ struggles to understand COVID helpful?

A party invitation going terribly wrong.

A series of mismatches mean would-be workers can’t find employment despite an abundance of openings.

Hungary is part of a broader global trend, but the real issue isn’t Hungary, it is the Americans who praise Hungary.

The President announced a whopping 72 initiatives to rein in corporate power and lower prices.

There’s got to be a better way.

A major first step to solving a longstanding global issue.

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

For now, at least, it can shift millions of its earnings to Luxembourg.

A credulous report on the tech giant’s altruism.

We tend to focus on the wrong qualities in our early assessments.

There are legitimate ethical and liberty questions but they’re outweighed by the benefits.

The quasi-monopoly power of the world’s largest bookstore is problematic. Maybe.

Amazon is using its dominant position to shut down a right-wing social platform.

Thus far, Disney+ and HBO Max are additive rather than cannibalizing competing services.

The days of one-stop media shopping are long gone.

Explaining the continuing cowardice of GOP Senators.

A reprise of an almost identical case with a different group of Justices–and the Chief Justice switching sides.

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

Contrary to some expectations, Americans are logging three extra hours of work a day.

What do they know, anyway?

We may be seeing the beginning of the end.

Is there a new frontrunner?

It’s more embarrassing than we thought.

In a new court filing, House Democrats hint they might move to impeach the President again if the evidence warrants such action.

Further evidence that the Republican Party has turned into a cult of personalty built around Donald Trump.

A big win for ranked-choice voting in the Big Apple as voters approve a referendum that will bring ranked-choice voting to the nation’s most populous city.

Brexit seems like it’s inevitable at this point, and that could set in motion a series of events that would mean the end of the United Kingdom.

There’s far more good in technology than bad, but these days we seem to be far more focused on the bad right now.

No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun.

This evening ten Democratic candidates for President, including all of the front runners, appear on stage together for the third debate of the 2020 election cycle.

Donald Trump isn’t just admiring dictators now, he’s acting like one.

The new round of tariffs on Chinese made goods that the President announced late last week will have a particularly severe impact on consumers and retailers.

Can the commander-in-chief’s tweets be unlawful command influence?

As the Supreme Court enters the final weeks of its term, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg hints at deep divisions and disappointment for people on the left.

The city by the Bay is rapidly transforming. Should we lament that?

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio has entered the race for the Democratic nomination for President, making him the 23rd candidate in an already crowded field.

One of the last of the Navajo Code Talkers, who provided the U.S. military with an unbreakable code in the fight against Japan in World War Two, has died at the age of 97.

We’ve soon see whether the current Supreme Court will overturn Roe v Wade.

A longstanding legal question may finally come to a head.

A panel of three Federal Judges has found Ohio’s Congressional District map to be unconstitutional, but a case currently pending before the Supreme Court could mute the impact of this decision.

Matt Bernius and I collaborated on an essay for Defense One.

His passing is a sad reminder of another era of the Republican Party.

A Federal Court in Michigan has found several of that state’s Congressional and state legislative districts to have been subject to extreme partisan gerrymandering.

Yesterday, Microsoft became the third American company to reach $1 trillion in market value.

Breaking up is hard to do.

Is 50 percent too high a take? Or the best deal in town?

The Supreme Court is taking up the issue of partisan gerrymandering. This time, though, they’re likely to reach the merits of the cases rather than punting like they did last year.

Later this week, the Supreme Court will hear a case that could rewrite decades of law interpreting the Fifth Amendment’s Double Jeopardy rule.