No Straw Men

Congress is considering a major reform of copyright law intended to solve the problem of “orphan works”—those works whose owner cannot be found.

The next time you have to take out a loan just to fill up your tank, remember this: Four-dollar-per-gallon gasoline is cheap.

Your references are everywhere, all the time, whether you want to share them or not.

Twelve countries ban HIV-positive visitors, nonimmigrants and immigrants from their territory: Armenia, Brunei, Iraq, Libya, Moldova, Oman, Qatar, the Russian Federation, Saudi Arabia, South Korea, Sudan and . . . the United States.

The Pentagon has repeatedly assured Congress that it is working toward an audit. Yet the projected date continues to slip further away. In 1995, Pentagon officials testified that it could be audited by 2000. In 2006, an audit wasn’t envisioned until 2016.

Sending an e-mail out of the blue would have been a little jarring and required some preamble. Facebook makes it casual.

The Post’s executive editor since 1991, Leonard Downie Jr., will almost certainly be gone by the time a new president is inaugurated next January. The new publisher, Katharine Weymouth, has been talking about—and talking to—potential successors.

It is hard to remember a time when more shifts in the global balance of power are happening at once—with so few in America’s favor.

John McCain was on Saturday Night Live last night.

Matt Haughey is right–the only way bloggers can stop constant press releases is to simply filter messages based on a company’s domain name.

Now he’s launched a new front to seize the Internet’s many Weblogs, via espionage, in order to curry the Internet’s political persuasion.