Outside the Beltway

Obama proposes four ‘net neutrality’ rules.

A 29 year old woman will end her life in less than a month. That should be her choice.

Elected representatives, not soldiers, make policy. But there are times when generals should make a stand.

Only one man can say that he has both recorded a jazz album with Lady Gaga and liberated a Nazi death camp.

A nation known for adopting new technology is behind the rest of the world in one interesting way.

After 200 years, Francis Scott Key’s most famous work may have outlived its usefulness..

Hobby Lobby Is an important decision, but it’s one that the Supreme Court handed down a week earlier that will have the widest impact.

Modern devices are more fragile, frustrating, and resource intensive than those of a decade ago.

The Supreme Court declined to review a lower court ruling that public school graduations in churches are unconstitutional.

Unearthed!

Tomorrow, the Supreme Court will hear argument in a case that will likely be this era’s version of the Betamax case.

A step up from The Colbert Report.

The Jobs Report for January once again leaves much to be desired.

One of the perils of the Internet age is that companies constantly go belly up, leaving their customers in a lurch

Seven years ago, Steve Jobs showed us that we could literally hold the world in the palm of our hand.

The latest news on the marijuana legalization front has led David Brooks and others to go into a completely pathetic panic.

In which we ponder the great questions of the day………

An example of how copyright laws have been perverted to protect corporate interests rather than encourage artistic creativity.

No previously published works have entered the US Public Domain since 1978. And none are scheduled to enter until 1923. So what are we missing?

WSJ’s Marc Myers has a fascinating chat with Keith Richards on the making of one of the Stones’ iconic tracks.

Some good numbers for November in the Jobs report, but questions about the future remain.

Jeff Bezos’s latest idea may never get off the ground, but it sure is interesting.

The Obama White House dropped some big news as everyone headed out of town.

Norman Geras, scholar and blogger extraordinaire, has passed.

One inmate’s view of the asylum.

Exit, Sandman

Does interest in Egypt make the same sense it did 30 years ago?

TheTransportation Security Administration is expanding its purview to train stations and sporting events.

Erstwhile country music legend Garth Brooks has become a grandfather.

The recording industry has sent its 25 millionth Google takedown notice, trying to kill links that sprung up because of earlier takedown notices.

Yesterday saw some of the biggest protests ever to rock Egypt. Where does it go from here?