Outside the Beltway

Shouldn’t medical advances available in Germany be available in the United States and vice-versa?

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:

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

Matt Yglesias has a smart push-back against the lamentations of the decline of journalism.

Olympic paralympic champion Oscar Pistorius has been arrested after the fatal shooting of his girlfriend.

“Killing Americans,” my latest for The National Interest, has posted.

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

Will a disagreement over accounting rules increase the bad feelings between China and the U. S.?

Prince Charles has been waiting for his mom to die for a very long time.

Not surprisingly, television and reality don’t really coincide.

There are signs that some Romney supporters have already decided their candidate is going to lose.

The Romney campaign is doubling down on bizarre foreign policy pronouncements.

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.