Outside the Beltway

Its time has passed.

Anticompetitive practices in one of the most competitive of markets.

One month down.

A weirdly ineradicable nuisance.

Has the search goliath gotten worse?

The Justice Department claims the search giant abused its power.

The current business model is collapsing. It’s about time.

When something simple isn’t so simple.

As much as we complain about them, they’ve become indispensable for most of us.

Why Google isn’t AltaVista.

A brilliant journalist is gone at 44.

A photo from February: Alan Parsons Live Project.

The company is begrudgingly complying with the EU’s requirement.

Jim VandeHei and company have put out a new style guide.

An example of when better isn’t better.

She is running to finish out Don Young’s term in Congress.

One of the great annoyances of the Internet is slowly going away.

Apple’s iMessages and teen chic.

If you’re still carrying one of these, it’ll be a brick in three days.

The Internets are terrible.

A credulous report on the tech giant’s altruism.

No, Colorado’s voting regulations are not roughly the same as Georgia’s.

A myriad of possible explanations.

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

Every Democratic woman seems to be under consideration.

The greatest crisis the nation has faced in my lifetime.

There’s a disturbing pattern of misogyny from his supporters.

Regulars beware: this is a total deviation from normal content.

Donald Trump isn’t just admiring dictators now, he’s acting like one.

The new round of tariffs on Chinese made goods that the President announced late last week will have a particularly severe impact on consumers and retailers.

Breaking up is hard to do.

Grammar and spelling errors abound at all but a handful of news sites.

The ignominious saga of Anthony Weiner appears to have reached its end.

Is 50 percent too high a take? Or the best deal in town?

President Trump’s private phone calls are apparently a major source of intelligence for foreign nations.

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

As much as we hate paying $200 a month for television, the future is likely going to be worse.

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.

Seemingly out of nowhere yesterday, the Commander-in-Chief ordered the Pentagon to create a fifth service.

Israeli Prime Minister gave a speech yesterday designed to undermine the nuclear deal with Iran. The evidence was unconvincing, but the speech was really only aimed at an audience of one.

A longtime “Hillary Beat” reporter ruminates on what she and her candidate could have done differently in 2016.

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

A decryption device called GrayKey is being used by all manner of government agencies.

Nick Statt argues that the iPhone X is just too nice to ruin with a plastic case.

Have we reached the point where the processing speed, connectivity, and cameras on our smart phones are simply good enough?

Donald Trump spends an inordinate amount of time watching television and regurgitating what he sees on Twitter. That’s not healthy.

The Meatloaf All Around Edition OTB Caption Contest^TM is now over.