Outside the Beltway

Should the pundit class look more like America?

America’s Newspaper of Record has decided the backlash isn’t worth it.

Thirty years ago, when the veterans of D-Day were still relatively young and still largely with us, President Reagan delivered one of the finest speeches of his Presidency.

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

Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has been indicted on seventeen counts under the Espionage Act arising out of his role in the Chelsea Manning affair.

Gone are ‘climate change’ and ‘skeptic.’ In are ‘global heating’ and ‘denier.’

Passing up an opportunity that other Democrats are taking, Elizabeth Warren is declining to appear on Fox News Channel. This seems like an unwise decision.

A depressing day in the world of sports journalism.

Before we draw broad conclusions of the reporting on the report, don’t we need to see the report?

The business of the news is business–and it’s a weird business.

Labor law has not kept up with our changing economy.

The populist Democrat won’t be hosting fundraising dinners. Until the general election campaign, at least.

The end of racism may have been prematurely declared.

Gender bias is real. Most examples cited, though, aren’t.

Former Massachusetts Governor Bill Weld is preparing for a primary challenge against Donald Trump. He won’t win, but he could still have an impact.

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

Two more defections from the stable of writers at RedState provide further proof of the extent to which conservative media has become a pro-Trump echo chamber.

In a rare public statement, the office of Special Counsel Robert Mueller is disputing reports that the President directed Michael Cohen to lie to Congress.

An argument against “bothersiderism” in this case and, yet again, noting the problem with single seat districts.

The continued problem cause by a lack of shared reality.

An effort by the Federal Government to prosecute Wikileaks founder Julian Assange raises serious First Amendment issues.

A Federal Judge in Washington ruled that the White House acted improperly when it arbitrary revoked CNN reporter Jim Acosta’s press pass.

A filing in an unrelated case has apparently revealed the existence of a sealed indictment against Wikileaks founder Julian Assange.

CNN fires back in the Administration’s ongoing war with the news media.

The military regime in Myanmar has sentenced two reporters to prison for reporting on the repression of the Rohingya Muslims.

Social media has altered the way writers and readers interact in odd ways.

Andy Bitter has taken a new job but his former employer thinks it owns his social media account.

The President is generating so much outrage on a daily basis that we’re missing important stories.

America promised immigrants who volunteered to serve in our military a fast track to citizenship. Now, we’re throwing them out.

Rebutting the President’s routine prevarications merely spreads them. Is there an alternative?

A new survey shows that Americans are increasingly unable to tell the difference between fact and opinion. That’s a problem.

A seemingly innocuous change to a newspaper style guide has some significant implications.

Political columnist and commentator Charles Krauthammer has weeks to live.

The rules of American journalism haven’t caught up with the reality of this Presidency.

The President’s constant attacks on the news media are meant for a single purpose, to undermine even accurate reporting about wrongdoing in his Administration.

Michael Cohen once threatened The Onion because it published a satirical article about Donald Trump.

For decades, it was the preeminent brand in American journalism. Now its pieces are being sold at bargain rates.

The inventor of New Journalism has died of unknown causes.

The White House isn’t apologizing for an aide who made a joke about John McCain’s most likely terminal illness. That shouldn’t be surprising.

General (Retired) Michael Hayden has some harsh, and concerning, criticisms of the Trump administration.

As has often been the case, the White House Correspondent’s Dinner is arousing some degree of controversy, mostly because of the comedy or lack thereof.

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

Ring Lardner said he would “rather write for the New Yorker at five cents a word than for Cosmopolitan at one dollar a word.” A century later, he’d be lucky to get those rates.

The Marvel superhero film passed ‘Titanic’ in US ticket sales. Unless we adjust for inflation. Which we absolutely should.

Argumentation without the intent to persuade is masturbation, not journalism.

President Trump won’t attend nerd prom again this year. That’s a good thing.

Old-fashioned notions of journalistic neutrality are chafing young reporters in the Age of Trump.

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.

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

To nobody’s surprise, Vladimir Putin has won re-election to another term as Russia’s President.