Outside the Beltway

The media, the academy, and the courts, are all in the crosshairs.

Abusing power to prevent the abuse of power?

As more details emerge about the documents he stole, defenders are falling away.

The Democrats have lots of problems. Salesmanship is pretty far down the list.

So, it turns out that Fox News wasn’t really all that fair or balanced.

A world in which we’re all contractors is a dystopian utopia.

An ad boycott has the Facebook co-founder down to his last $82.3 billion.

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

Matt Bernius and I collaborated on an essay for Defense One.

Two-thirds want social media platforms to ban harassment and racist, sexist, and other offensive speech.

New Jersey Senator Cory Booker is the latest entrant into the race for the 2020 Democratic Nomination.

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

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.”

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

Donald Trump has announced that he would not be self-funding the General Election campaign. That’s probably because he really couldn’t afford to do so.

The Zuckers On The Line Edition OTB Caption Contest^TM is now over.

Going to or, preferably, graduating from college makes it far more likely you’ll have a job. The numbers don’t lie.

Donald Trump likes to tell people that he’ll never be beholden to special interests because he’s self-funding his campaign. So far, though, that doesn’t really seem to be true.

While it did draw 14 million viewers, last night’s CNBC debate had the smallest audience of any Presidential debate so far. That was probably a good thing for CNBC considering how bad the debate was.

While the issue of income inequality is quite real, Oxfam’s numbers are not.

Rich guys are backing organizations that are taking over traditional party functions. Is that a problem?

Could Congress actually pass some form of immigration reform before the midterms? Don’t bet on it just yet.

Cory Booker is in the race for New Jersey’s open Senate seat, but is he really unbeatable?

Does the public still care about the personal transgressions of politicians? The evidence seems to suggest they don’t.

The best single means of becoming such an economic winner is to gain admission to a top university

Facebook’s stock has lost nearly 50% of its value since the company went public, and the plunge probably isn’t over.

Mark Zuckerberg left at least two Italian restaurants without tipping. Apparently, he read his guide books.

It was supposed to be the return of the heady days of the great Tech Industry IPOs. But, things didn’t quite go as planned.

With Facebook’s huge IPO in the news, Megan Garber takes a look at how much the Internet has evolved since Thefacebook came on the scene.

Time Magazine has chosen “The Protester” as its Person Of The Year. Let the outrage ensue.

Elizabeth Warren has a deeply flawed view of our social contract.

Tim Cook is succeeding Steve Jobs as head of the world’s biggest technology company. Does it matter that he’s gay?

It’s the marketing of college as a panacea that’s a scam, not college itself.

Has technology robbed us of more than it’s given in return?

The Wall Street Journal is joining the modern era and dropping the practice of referring to people as “Mr.” and “Ms.” But only on the sports pages.

The Beast has released its The 50 Most Loathsome Americans of 2010, which I gather is supposed to be amusing rather than taken seriously.

If Mark Zuckerberg hadn’t invented Facebook someone else would have. Probably within a month or two of his invention.

Facebook’s 26-year-old founder, Mark Zuckerberg, is one of the wealthiest men in America. Most of his work force is unpaid.