Outside the Beltway

Trump, Bezos, and the slippery slope of authoritarianism.

Hitting back at centibillionaires is hard.

Staffers are in mutiny after owners killed plans to endorse Kamala Harris for President.

The violence perpetrated by its namesake is well known. The violence that led to its creation, less so.

To what degree is right wing media shaping Trump’s view of Harris?

The talk show pioneer is gone at 88.

One of the most notorious war criminals in American history is dead at 80.

An odd juxtaposition in the major press.

Could Thursday’s match-up shake up the race?

*Parenthetically, his opponent wouldn’t know the truth if it bit him on the ass.

Sally Buzzee is out and the staff is “pissed.” Readers will likely notice no difference.

The inclusion of Negro League statistics has rewritten the game’s history.

The weirdness of this year’s polling gives the President’s team hope.

Its time has passed.

A disturbing dissection in the NYT Magazine.

Finding 12 impartial people in a high-profile trial is challenging.

No, I don’t feel terrible now.

A sign of the Times.

A television icon is gone at 101.

Has the search goliath gotten worse?

The mainstream media isn’t and shouldn’t become a counterpart to the right-wing infotainment complex.

An unconvincing column from an old pro.

How far should the government be able to go?

Yet more allegations.

A legal defense without merit.

Hollywood and the news media are roiled in labor disputes.

Who should pay whom for what?

When the product changes after you bought it.

Newspapers across the country are dropping the popular strip over a racist rant.

The soccer legend has passed at 82.

How an apparent serial fabulist got elected to Congress

Headline News Network is shuttering after four decades.

Journalists openly root for a good story.

Publishers and consumers want very different business models.

Reading habits continue to evolve, not necessarily for the better.

96-year-olds are living on borrowed time.

CNN’s original anchorman is gone at 82.

The nature of American political reporting distorts our perception of reality.

Paywalls are not our problem.

Japan’s longest-serving prime minister was killed at a campaign rally. He was 67.

From the Cliché File.

The obstacles to fixing the problem are many.

An extraordinary example shines light on coercive factors that incentivize plea deals

Does it matter whether she’s a rube or a mastermind?

The legendary AP politics reporter is gone at 87.

The great conservative humorist is gone at 74.

How do we know when our government is telling us the truth?

The longtime aggregator is now serving mostly non-news content.