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.

The real story of Bain Capital is impressive. Mitt Romney chose instead to present an origin story that’s utter horseshit.

Will an MRI of your brain someday be able to tell if you’re lying? And, if it can, should it be admissible in Court?

Jon Huntsman calls for an end to “unforced errors in immigration policy.”

A true pioneer passed away today.

Apple has won a huge victory in the smart phone patent wars. If the news reporting is accurate, the outcome doesn’t pass the common sense test.

TechCrunch’s Alexia Tsotsis declares “Siri Is The New Clippy.”

Signs are brewing that the Chinese economy is slowing down significantly.

A new lawsuit from Google’s Motorola Mobility subsidiary seeks to bar Apple from importing it’s most popular products into the United States.

Think the auto bailout was a success? Think again.

A columnist for The Guardian says she wishes her mother had aborted her.

There’s a large group of people out there that like the President, but they’re probably not going to vote.

People from blood groups A, B, and AB are at greater risk of heart disease than those with type O, a new study finds. Or does it?

A Federal case in Virginia is testing the boundaries of what constitutes protected speech in the digital age.

Storing all your data in the cloud isn’t necessarily a good idea.

After “seven minutes of terror” the Curiosity rover is already sending back pictures from the surface of Mars.

The President’s former Budget Director joins the ranks of those calling for Postal privatization.

Andrew Hacker argues that, while quantitative skills are “critical for informed citizenship and personal finance,” making kids master algebra to graduate high school has disastrous consequences.

..because apparently we can apply a modern definition of “arms” to the constitution, but not modern understandings of the word “citizens.”

Andrew Sullivan believes Sally Ride “had a chance to expand people’s horizons and young lesbians’ hope and self-esteem, and she chose not to.”

A man dressed like a goat is living among the mountain goats of northern Utah.

What happened in 1970 to decouple wages and productivity?

Carbon emissions in the U.S. have declined just as use of natural gas in electricity production has increased. That’s no coincidence.

Farhad Manjoo is trying the demo version of Microsoft Word 2013—which he likes—but notices something out of place.

Jeopardy phenom Ken Jennings contends Mount Everest isn’t really Earth’s highest peak.

We’ve reached a point where our wonder at modern technology fades almost instantaneously and is replaced by annoyance that our technology isn’t better

Lies and misrepresentations in politics seem to be something the American people have come to, if not accept, at least expect.

Would faith survive the discovery that the central premise of the Bible is a lie?

A recent decision out of Massachusetts threatens to make business quite difficult for online service providers.