During the last two years, media of all stripes have regularly covered Hillary Clinton’s email practices. But widespread similar email practices by local government officials have been treated, at best, with a yawn; at worst, by sweeping them under the rug. The Media’s Economic Calculus Media economics helps explain this…

I n the current frenzy, depending on which side you are on, to either bring Hillary Clinton down or hold her up, the open government public policy implications of her email scandal (“Emailgate”) are being ignored: how to prevent government officials from using private rather than government email systems for…