Washington Post

As the Federal Communications Commission unveiled its sweeping national broadband plan, questions loom over the agency's ability to regulate Internet service providers. The agency chose to avoid answering what it...

The National Broadband Plan outlines dozens of policy recommendations aimed at raising the portion of people with high-speed Internet connections to 90 percent, from the current 65 percent, over the next decade and significantly increasing the connection speeds of homes with such service.

Our nation is at a high-tech crossroads: Either we commit to creating world-leading broadband networks to make sure that the next waves of innovation and business growth occur here, or we stand pat and watch inventions and jobs migrate to those parts of the world with better, faster and cheaper communications infrastructures.

The Virginia General Assembly adjourned its annual legislative session Sunday evening after adopting a two-year, $82 billion budget that cuts millions from education, health care and public safety. Funding for the arts and public broadcasting will be cut by 15 percent over two years.

The Obama administration's first year of efforts to improve access to government information has yielded mixed results, according to an audit of Freedom of Information Act requests set to be released Monday.

In just over a year, Glenn Beck's blinding burst of stardom has often seemed to overshadow the rest of Fox News. And that may not be a good thing.

The Federal Communications Commission responded Friday evening to questions about the broadband speed tests it launched Thursday, saying that data collected from the effort will be supplemented by other information in the agency's analysis of connection speeds. The point of collecting data on broadband speeds and service quality is so that the FCC knows -- down to the level of a home address -- how well different parts of the United States are being served by Internet providers.

Why haven't America's old-school news organizations blown the whistle on Roger Ailes, chief of Fox News, for using the network to conduct a propaganda campaign against the Obama administration -- a campaign without precedent in our modern political history?

In "Industry Lobby Keeps Public in the Dark About Broadband," John Dunbar, director of American University's Investigative Reporting Workshop, details a history of industry efforts to prevent regulators from getting information to map what homes are getting service, the prices they pay and the speeds that they are offered.

President Barack Obama and the Supreme Court have waded again into unfamiliar and strikingly personal territory.