Outside the Beltway

WIth the top two candidates in the race on the same stage, the second night of the first Democratic debate was much feistier than the first night.

We all know the Internet broke the monopoly on classified advertising. Here’s the rest of the story.

Strong public records laws, not an excess of weirdness, has driven a sad meme.

Late last week it appeared as if a 90-year-old veteran of the Korean War would be buried without anyone to say goodbye. Then the word got out, and thousands of people responded.

The city by the Bay is rapidly transforming. Should we lament that?

Beto is fading.

Trump’s penchant for behaving more like a talk radio host than a POTUS continues unabated.

Yesterday, Microsoft became the third American company to reach $1 trillion in market value.

Those making under $66,000 aren’t supposed to have to pay. But good luck figuring out how to avoid it.

It’s an interesting idea, although one fraught with moral hazard.

There’s a lot of money already chasing the 2020 presidential election.

Breaking up is hard to do.

Are people fleeing blue states to avoid repressive taxes? It depends who you’re asking.

It’s increasingly challenging to discuss media coverage because we’re all consuming a hand-selected bit of it.

A powerful Congressman successfully pressured a media giant to pull content. We should be worried.

A reading recommendation.

They’ve gotten better at solving CAPTCHAs than we are.

The damage done for Mickey Mouse in the name of Sony Bono is finally coming to an end.

President Trump has lost another one of his top advisers on the fight against ISIS.

Apparently, this is a thing.

Donald Trump’s lies became even more frequent during the recently-concluded campaign season.

With less than forty-eight hours to go until voters head to the polls, the odds are pointing to a Democratic House and a Republican Senate.

Anti-Semitic violence has increased markedly over the past two years. So has the spread of far-right “anti-Globalist” conspiracy theories. This is not a coincidence.

Jamal Khashoggi’s final column includes a message that should resonate far beyond the Arab world it was addressed to.

Should celebrities use their influence in partisan politics?

Amazon has joined Apple to become the second American corporation to reach $1,000,000,000,000 in market valuation.

Facebook, Google, and several other companies have closed down accounts associated with conspiracy theorist Alex Jones.

Forty-two years after being founded in a California garage, and twenty years after nearly going broke, Apple Computer has become the first publicly traded company to top $1 trillion in value.

The 34-year-old Facebook tycoon is now worth more than 87-year-old Warren Buffet.

Federal law protects internet companies from liability for statements written by others.

What was once a rare symbol of national mourning has become so commonplace as to be meaningless.

Conservatives claim to support freedom of speech and freedom of expression, but they’ve utterly failed that test when it comes to their reaction to players who peacefully and respectfully kneel during the National Anthem.

American companies are struggling to comply with the EU’s new privacy regulation, with many outlets choosing to simply block access abroad.

Tomorrow, Irish voters will head to the polls to decide whether or not to scrap a Constitutional Amendment that bans abortion in essentially all circumstances.

The Internet is a global platform. Should every country’s laws apply to everyone using it?

Another data point demonstrating that a distinguished military career doesn’t preclude being an awful human being or a crackpot.

It takes a whole lot of work to net small gains for underrepresented groups.

Overnight, we moved to content encryption. Here’s what that means for you.

The next time you sign a credit card receipt could be the last.

Not surprisingly, a joint Senate Committee failed to really lay a glove on Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg at yesterday’s hearing.

The FBI committed gross malfeasance in building a case against the widow of Omar Mateen. She nonetheless bears significant blame for 53 deaths.

The woman who wounded three people at the video company before killing herself posted insane rants all over social media.

The ‘permanent record’ of yesteryear is now real. Should there be limitations?

A well-meaning journalist brushes off critiques by experts in the field. He owes it to his readers to keep learning.

Fred Kaplan fails to make the case for buying an ultra-high definition TV right now.

Is Google acting as a good citizen here? Or abusing its market dominance?

The guy from Real People? He’s rich.

A man suspected in a bombing spree killed himself with explosives as authorities were closing in.

Yet more absurdity from Brussels, where regulators seemingly don’t understand how the Internet works.

A recent change to the way the social media giant selects articles readers see first has crushed a web magazine.