Outside the Beltway

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.

People, details do in fact matter!

Are Fauci, the CDC, and others getting a bum rap?

A long peek at history in the making.

A media critic argues we pay outsized attention to the goings-on at Fox, MSNBC, and CNN.

Our reactions to recent murder trials tells us a lot about our divided country.

The appetite for content and clicks turns sensationalizes news that isn’t news.

The first modern stand-up comedian has died at 94.

Our brains are wired to seek approval but may not be equipped to handle our modern existence.

Not everyone is losing money.

Grandstanding in the midst of chaos is a bad look.

When “the news” isn’t just “the news.”

The Internet killed the newspaper without really replacing it.

Some reflections

Historical precedents fall apart when we’re in a truly unprecedented time.

The legal debates are unsettled but we can all agree that Rand Paul is a moron.

Same endless song, different verse.

The venerable military newspaper lives to print another day.

Telecommuting has taken a bite out of an industry built on commuting.

The President is desperate and unwell and the press is making no bones about it.

As the President becomes less popular, there are signs he’s losing support from his co-partisans in Congress.

The President has been Twitter on their own platform. Now, he’s following through.

All the deaths are fit to print.

Every Democratic woman seems to be under consideration.

The newspaper of record radically altered a column and then misrepresented it.

We seem to be in a new reality. Will readers accept it?

A promising new study.

The leading papers in Iowa and New Hampshire are backing Klobuchar and Warren, respectively.

René Auberjonois, a long time character actor best known for his roles on Benson and Star Trek: Deep Space NIne, has died at 79.

Former Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick isn’t exactly starting out on the right foot.

The President is tired of all the fake news.

The impending impeachment of the President is likely to reveal Republicans on Capitol Hill to be the cowards we already knew they were.

An empty column with a seed of one good point buried in a bunch of nothing.

We’re unlikely to see anyone like her again.

To listen to the meda, Joe Biden’s recent gaffes and malapropisms are a major story. For regular Americans, though, they don’t seem to matter.

Stories from sites like The Onion are routinely shared on social media and perceived as real news.

Despite all the complaining, we’re in a golden age of political and policy coverage.

Should the pundit class look more like America?

One of America’s fist celebrity CEO’s has passed away at the age of 94.

We all know the Internet broke the monopoly on classified advertising. Here’s the rest of the story.

The New York Times has obtained about ten years worth of Donald Trump’s tax returns from the late eighties to early nineties. They don’t tell us much that we didn’t already know.

Its explanation for why its paywall is coming down 3 days leads us to an obvious question.

Scholars argue that the shifting media landscape is largely to blame for our political crisis.

Another white supremacist attack raises disturbing questions about our information environment.