Outside the Beltway

The critics are divided.

The FCC Chair went on a podcast and now Kimmel is on indefinite hiatus.

The end of an era.

An attack on the First Amendment in plain sight.

Or does it?

Appointing unqualified loyalists is only the start.

It’s Nixon’s fault?

Some long-overdue safeguards are being implemented.

Our brains are wired to seek approval but may not be equipped to handle our modern existence.

NIMBY is still alive and well in the age of the Internet of Things.

Huge swaths of the country are underserved.

Appoint more Asian American and Pacific Islanders. Or else!

Everything is easier with money.

Various federal and state agencies are enforcing existing laws while Congress scrambles to update them.

Hospital phone lines are being overwhelmed.

Not only are we deploying it more slowly than China and others but we’re doing it in a way that will live behind rural Americans.

The New Hampshire Supreme Court rejected a challenge by three women to their prosecution for going topless on a public beach in the Granite State.

Yesterday’s test of the Presidential Alert system went about as planned.

Be prepared to get a test message from the Federal Government at 2:18 pm Eastern Time on Thursday. This is only a test.

Mark Zuckerberg’s second day before Congress was somewhat more contentious than the first, but at the end of the day it’s still unclear that more regulation is the answer to the issues raised by recent Facebook “scandals.”

News anchors at dozens of local stations owned by conservative-leaning Sinclair Broadcast Group were recently required to read a script mandated by corporate headquarters, and it’s leading to some bad media coverage for Sinclair.

Two weeks later, it’s still unclear what caused a false missile alert to be sent out in Hawaii.

A group of 21 states has filed a petition to review the F.C.C.’s recent net neutrality rule changes, but it faces an uncertain future.

Fortunately, yesterday’s missile alert in Hawaii was a false alarm. However, it is raising questions about the early warning system that’s in place and the state’s preparedness in case of an actual attack.

Donald Trump is continuing to up the ante in his rhetorical war against one of America’s most fundamental freedoms.