Outside the Beltway

Technically, you don’t own your digital music files. That means you can’t transfer them to your heirs after you die.

A new IAEA report may make an Israeli strike on Iran in the near future more likely than it has ever been.

Another step in the ongoing diplomatic showdown over the founder of Wikileaks.

How dominant were America’s women in the London Olympics? They’d have come in fourth place in the medal count in the US sent separate men’s and women’s teams.

Eight of Cameroon’s 37 Olympians are “missing.”

Nick Delpopolo has been banned from the Olympics for testing positive for cannabis, which he claims came from unwittingly eating a marijuana-laced brownie.

Cover Girl model Marlen Esparza was the first American woman to win an Olympic boxing match.

Doug Saunders makes the counterintuitive claim that things are better for Britons than ever.

Once again, we learn that hosting the Olympics doesn’t carry nearly the economic benefit the IOC wants host cities to believe it does.

Marco Rubio wants to prevent these young women, and other Olympic medal winners, from paying taxes. It’s a dumb idea.

While women are more visible at the 2012 Olympics than any past games, there are still cries of “sexism.”

Michael Phelps today won his 18th and 19th Olympic medal, breaking the old record held by gymnast Larysa Latynina. Does this make him the greatest ever?

Romney’s foreign tour didn’t go quite as well as planned, but it’s unclear how much the minor gaffes will actually matter.

NBC’s Olympic coverage doesn’t necessarily recognize the realities of social networking and the 24 hour news cycle.

Mitt Romney is no more of a wimp than George H.W. Bush or John Kerry.

Why the hell is CNN—which purports to be a news organization—pretending that NBC is live casting the Olympics?

The athletes gathered at the London Olympics have sacrificed much of their lives training to excel at their sports. But most also have extraordinary genetic advantages.

The campaign silly season took a trip across the pond.

Two words spoken by a Romney aide have led to a ridiculous firestorm on the right, while the rest of their comments are being ignored.

Nick Cohen dubs this year’s London Games the “Censorship Olympics.” Had he called them the “London Censorship Olympics,” the “2012 Censorship Olympics,” or titled the piece “Censorship Takes London Gold” he might have faced civil or criminal penalties.

Four years after the financial crisis tanked the global economy, bankers still put their interests above those of their customers, even to the extent of skirting the law.

A nine month Al Jazeera investigations indicates that poison may have played a role in Yasser Arafat’s 2004 death.

Scientists have made a major step toward unlocking one of the biggest mysteries of particle physics

London’s iconic clock tower, known affectionately as “Big Ben” for some 150 years, has been renamed “Elizabeth Tower” in honor of QE2’s 60 years as royal figurehead.

Two centuries ago, a war that makes less and less sense with the passage of time began.

Public opinion of the Supreme Court has declined in recent years. But It’s not because of anything the Court did.