Outside the Beltway

The president went there.

Ellen Page is gay. So is Michael Sam. Shouldn’t we be aiming for the day when the response to news like this is “So what?”

The beginning of the end of an era.

Michael Sam is gay.It didn’t matter to his University of Missouri teammates. Will it matter to the NFL?

Richard Petty and Dale Earnhardt have company.

My latest for The National Interest has posted.

Alex Rodriguez and 12 other Major League Baseball players were suspended today for PED use. Rodriguez is the only one vowing to fight the suspension.

Apparently, there was a culture clash at the Grey Lady.

No, the NFL isn’t a non-profit. Yes, it pays massive amounts of taxes.

Lance Armstrong joins a long line of the greatest athletes of his generation whose glory was fueled by performance enhancing drugs.

After a nine week trial, Roger Clemens was acquitted of perjury charges this afternoon. What that means for his future in the world of baseball is unclear.

An object lesson in the problems with our intellectual property laws

This week we learned that even breast cancer can become politicized. Is there anything that can’t at this point?

Players have taken control of the NBA from the owners. That’s bad for fans. But probably a good thing.

While the amount of wealth controlled by the top 1% is at record highs, real inequality is smaller than ever.

Too many copyright owners are stupidly invoking their rights to keep short clips off of YouTube and other services, losing potential customers in the process.

Roger Clemens is probably regretting today the decision to testify before a Congressional committee about steroids back in 2008.

Southern Guilford High School in North Carolina briefly had a SHCOOL zone, thanks to a contractor’s gaffe.