Outside the Beltway

Thanks to a Federal District Court Judge, most of Sherlock Holmes is now in the public domain.

Under 21 in New York City? No more smokes for you!

Until this weekend, Mario Cuomo had refused to watch The Godfather. He still isn’t being very fair to it.

Prism ain’t got nothin’ on the Hemisphere Project.

A Federal Judge has declared the NYPD’s “stop & frisk” policy to be unconstitutional.

The high cost of raising children is making it difficult for many Americans to have multiple children.

What can an incident at an elite New York party ten years ago tell us about race in America?

Is 2013 the year of second acts in American politics? Eliot Spitzer seems to be the latest disgraced politician to hope that it is.

The latest NSA leaks are likely to prove to be diplomatically embarrassing.

Edward Snowden has likely violated many laws, but, absent additional facts, treason is not one of them.

A song written when Grover Cleveland was President is still protected by Copyright Law. That makes no sense at all.

Are two parking spaces in Boston really worth $560,000? According to an auction earlier this week they are.

Former President Bill Clinton says President Obama should ignore the polls and intervene in Syria.

Will voters care about the revelations about NSA data mining? Signs point to no.

Jean Stapleton, an accomplished stage and screen actress who achieved entertainment immortality playing opposite Carroll O’Connor as Archie Bunker’s long-suffering wife Edith, has died at the age of 90:

Some on the right are complaining that Dzhokar Tsarnaev was read his Mranda rights too soon.

The days of tax-free online shopping are coming to an end.

Big Brother is watching us. And he may be watching us a lot more after what happened in Boston.

You can either have a career in a white shoe law firm or marry a military officer. Pick one.

A Fox News reporter may go to jail for refusing to reveal a source. Should journalists have an absolute testimonial privilege?

Conveying military experience to civilian human resources departments is hard.

The Judicial Confirmation process needs to be fixed.

Rand Paul’s questions about the nation’s drone war were only the beginning.

About 8.1 percent of U.S. workers have commutes of 60 minutes or longer and nearly 600,000 have “megacommutes” of at least 90 minutes and 50 miles.

The Big Gulp ban won’t ban Big Gulps. But it’ll ban 2-liter Cokes with your pizza and pitchers at Chuck E. Cheese.

Ed Koch, former mayor of New York City and one of America’s most colorful politicians, has died at 88.

For the New Year, how about challenging your ideas just a little bit?

Mayor Bloomberg has decided to hold the New York Marathon Sunday even though millions are still without power and the city infrastructure is unable to cope with normal activity.

The Mid-Atlantic region is under the gun.

Another loss in the Federal Courts for the Defense Of Marriage Act.