Outside the Beltway

Tom Brokaw isn’t happy with Mitt Romney’s latest ad, which use of a 1997 NBC news report on Newt Gingrich’s ethics.

Censorship or sound business practice?

On it’s own, the so-called “Buffett Rule” is unlikely to do much to reduce the deficit.

Wikipedia’s English language site will be offline for 24 hours tomorrow to protest two controversial online piracy bills.

The Republican candidates for President have apparently forgotten that this guy was their party’s nominee twice.

Congress eliminates a bad subsidy, but it’s only because there’s a worse one on the books.

Some Republicans are starting to realize just how badly the House GOP has messed up this time.

A progressive columnist has been outed as having sympathies for the Democratic Party.

Not surprisingly, the Supercommittee is a Super Failure.

Increasing taxes on the rich may be a fiscal policy worth talking about, but it won’t make the poor richer.

A new patent granted to Apple raises once again the question of how far patent protections should extend.

In a shot across the bow of the current publishing model, Princeton is requiring professors to retain rights to their published work so that it may be freely distributed.

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

In five days, Rick Perry has gone from calling Social Security a “monstrous lie” to saying we need to have a conversation about fixing it.

Matthew Yglesias resurrects an argument that should have died off when Napster disappeared.

He’s been out of office for more than two years, but George W. Bush is still being blamed for the state of the economy.

For the past 18 months, Medicare spending has slowed down considerably – especially compared to the private sector.

Any politician telling you that solving our problems will be easy is lying to you.

Now that America’s political leadership have probably averted a self-inflicted global economic calamity, it’s time to assess the winners and losers.

Another government program isn’t going to bring health care costs under control.