Outside the Beltway

The Internet killed the newspaper without really replacing it.

A loon wolf terrorist who followed Louis Farrakhan was responsible.

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

And what GOP opposition says about the party.

Reflections on the events of 6 January two months later.

A third of Americans are unsure they want the life-saving COVID shots.

Debunking urban legends and Internet rumors is harder than it used to be.

Now, we’re just haggling over price.

Aung San Suu Kyi and her top officials are under house arrest.

AOC v. MTG: one of these things is not like the other.

A one-time denizen of Blogger’s Row at CPAC has come a long way.

The live coverage of Wednesday’s assault on American democracy underplayed its seriousness.

Hashtag: You’re Fired.

Biden nominees Janet Yellen, Tony Blinken, and Avril Haines are under scrutiny for their financial disclosures.

So, it turns out that Fox News wasn’t really all that fair or balanced.

The requirements for voting in the Peach State appear loose.

Either democracy is sacred, or it’s not.

The expectations game will be especially tricky this year.

Fear of a reprise of 2016 is still with us.

Sigh.

Rudy Giuliani and a hack tabloid are trying to revive the Burisma story.

The President is not like other people.

President Trump is historically unpopular and has consistently trailed Joe Biden. He could still win.

Statements by an HHS official underscore the rot of this administration.

Are those with kids getting over?

Why roll with the facts when you can confuse your supporters with conspiracy theories?

What would a reborn GOP look like and who would vote for it?

The rules are different if you’re famous.

A world in which we’re all contractors is a dystopian utopia.

A new company has reinvented the communication tool that people love to hate.

How about crowd sourcing a timeline for all of Trump’s enablers?

The President does not like his poll numbers.

The trend line shifted this week.

The emotional and economic impact of the pandemic is hitting women especially hard.

Some incredibly thin reporting about a story that is almost certainly made up.

An ad boycott has the Facebook co-founder down to his last $82.3 billion.

The state of American debate is not strong.

The preliminary hearing revealed a damning case against the shooter of a young black man.

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

Should government be taking harsher measures against smoking, car crashes, and the flu?

You can guess the rest.

Vastly more people died than needed to and the economy still crashed.

Wrongheaded thinking about the pandemic won’t go away.

A seemingly innocent black man has been killed, sparking a wave of outrage.

A sober assessment of President Trump’s plan to get the country running again.

A seemingly impossible coincidence.

The President is issuing dangerous statements.

The pandemic is massively more livable given modern technology.