by Larry Elkin

There was something refreshing in the political scene Wednesday when congressional sponsors ran away, as fast as they could, from two ill-considered bills that sought to stamp out Internet piracy by more or less stamping out the Internet.

It was fun to watch politicians on both sides of the aisle scurry together in search of cover.

by Larry Elkin

The young people who started the Occupy Wall Street protest a few weeks ago are about to learn some important lessons about life in the grown-up world.

by Larry Elkin

When a hotel investment firm decided a 10-block stretch of Miami Beach needed a name, the easy part was coming up with SoBe 10, to catch a little of the cachet of South Beach. The hard part was getting the name to catch on.

“Jailbreaking” an iPhone will soon be a thing of the past now that the Library of Congress gave Apple smartphone users a get-out-of-jail-free card.

The 2010 Super Bowl commercials featured an unusual number of henpecked men. New studies show that they have good reason to think they are living in a woman’s world.

For 30 years, cable fought broadcast for a foothold in the media business. Now, the war is over. But the tables have turned.

Soupy Sales meant more than pies in the face on black and white TV. Here’s a story about an audacious phone call to a kids TV star back in the latchkey era before the word playdate was invented.

The same financial disclosure journalists demand from sources should be applied to stories about labor, management and journalists.

Free enterprize isn’t always free. There are price supports for special interest groups whose efforts have special public interest. But are we supporting the right groups?

In George Orwell’s 1984, Big Brother sought to control what you read and what you thought. Who wouldathunk Amazon’s Kindle would have the power to do the same?