Outside the Beltway

The apocryphal quotation has proven correct.

The downside of our increasing connectivity.

The search giant lost a major court battle. What’s next?

An odd juxtaposition in the major press.

Interesting stories I’m not going to write about at length.

Administrations are struggling to handle the biggest wave of student protests in generations.

Anticompetitive practices in one of the most competitive of markets.

If we’re even bowling at all.

Are we leaving too many people behind?

Our car culture is killing us.

Another call for letting kids be kids.

As much as we complain about them, they’ve become indispensable for most of us.

Should the government need a warrant to get information it can buy on the open market?

Car manufacturers are slowly removing an old format.

Should we expect privacy from our own cameras?

ChatGPT is just the latest example of a perverse phenomenon.

A look back at two decades of blogging.

Traffic deaths are going down in most of the world. Not here.

The fading tabloid still has significant influence.

After decades of exporting American jobs, corporations are bringing them home.

Sigh.

One of the great annoyances of the Internet is slowly going away.

Pundits like Thomas Friedman struggle with premature prognostication.

NATO has stepped up in a pleasantly surprising way to resist the Ukraine invasion.

The United States and its NATO allies are in a dangerous standoff.