Outside the Beltway

Mitt Romney’s forces won a rules change that will allow future nominees to have more say over their conventions. While this strikes me as a no-brainer, some conservative activists are up in arms.

American politics has been reduced to a charade where all people do is yell at each other.

As far as the law is concerned, your social media accounts aren’t private at all.

Facebook’s stock has lost nearly 50% of its value since the company went public, and the plunge probably isn’t over.

Another day, another mass shooting in America. Details are sketchy.

A Federal case in Virginia is testing the boundaries of what constitutes protected speech in the digital age.

NBC’s Olympic coverage doesn’t necessarily recognize the realities of social networking and the 24 hour news cycle.

Why do we hold Nutella to a higher truth standard than our presidential candidates?

Rob Tornoe has revised his Joe Paterno-Bear Bryant cartoon in light of the Freeh Report.

Nick Cohen dubs this year’s London Games the “Censorship Olympics.” Had he called them the “London Censorship Olympics,” the “2012 Censorship Olympics,” or titled the piece “Censorship Takes London Gold” he might have faced civil or criminal penalties.

Lies and misrepresentations in politics seem to be something the American people have come to, if not accept, at least expect.

With four months to go until Election Day, the Obama Campaign was greeted with a very dismal jobs report this morning.

A recent decision out of Massachusetts threatens to make business quite difficult for online service providers.

Opponents of the Supreme Court’s decision in Citizens United continue to miss the point of what the case was really about.

Sometimes, the law can be an ass.

Jonathan Chait makes an astute observation about the media’s role in meme generation.

Mark Zuckerberg left at least two Italian restaurants without tipping. Apparently, he read his guide books.

Contrary to what you’re hearing, the Facebook I.P.O. was a huge success.

Does the fizzled out Facebook IPO tell us anything about the state of the economy? Not really.

It was supposed to be the return of the heady days of the great Tech Industry IPOs. But, things didn’t quite go as planned.

The Internet is public and forever. But maybe it shouldn’t be.

Eduardo Saverin has become a political whipping boy.

Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin denies that his motivation for renouncing his US citizenship was tax avoidance.

With Facebook’s huge IPO in the news, Megan Garber takes a look at how much the Internet has evolved since Thefacebook came on the scene.

The GOP’s response to the Obama campaign’s Osama bin Laden ad has not been helpful.

Legendary musician Levon Helm is dying.