Outside the Beltway

Vague reporting makes it hard to know whether the latest scandal is scandalous.

The singer now wishes to be referred to as “they.”

A powerful symbol has been robbed of its significance.

More voice, more votes, more representation.

The latest variant of the “No Justice, No Peace” threat is unhelpful.

The law is out of sync with modern realities.

An internal review is calling for America’s business paper to diversify its appeal.

The Internet killed the newspaper without really replacing it.

Is he bogarting all the good documentaries?

Multiple indicators point to a decline in the representativeness of the American system.

Also some ironic positions on capitalism.

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

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

Not.

Outliers are bad places to look for solid support of your argument.

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

Thinking about unsupported narratives and a little bit about data usage.

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

Barr finds no fraud.

Some guy you never heard of is the guy.

Up is down. Down is up.

It’s much easier to fund bad information than good.

Having failed to prevent or contain it, aggressive stupidity is now washing over us.

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

Utterly classic.

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

The pandemic is highlighting an international shame.

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

A fiasco wrapped in a clusterfuck.

Cable news “experts” frequently aren’t.

Conferences, sporting events, and even school has been canceled to avoid spreading the pandemic.

How Iowa works.

Ted Cruz is the latest Republican Senator to repeat discredited Kremlin-backed conspiracy theories about Ukrainian interference in the 2016 election.

The Butterball Turkey Hotline still thrives even in the era of the Internet.

Twitter is banning all political advertising from its site. It is a largely meaningless decision, but it’s still a bad idea.

Barely in office a year, California Congresswoman Katie Hill has been forced to resign in the face of inappropriate contact with a staff member and a campaign worker.

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

It’s Election Day in Canada and the outcome is far from certain.

A new Senate Intelligence Committee report adds to the evidence regarding Russian interference in the 2016 election.

The National Basketball Association’s kowtowing to China hits American shores.

Sigh.

A star NBA general manager may lose his job for expressing American values.

The case of Roland Gramajo is an excellent example of what’s wrong with the Trump Administration’s immigration policy.

And what a week it has been.

Stories from sites like The Onion are routinely shared on social media and perceived as real news.

Rich candidates are buying artificial donors to stay in the contest.

Republicans have come up with a new target to blame mass shootings on, “violent video games.”

Tulsi Gabbard has filed a seemingly frivolous lawsuit against Google due to a temporary suspension of her advertising account.

Anchoring of CBS Evening News is not what it used to be.

The 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld a District Court ruling that President Trump cannot block Twitter users from accessing his account.