Outside the Beltway

Another round of threats from North Korea.

Some thoughts on the voter registration/voter turnout debate.

Charlie Savage documents a major shift in Barack Obama’s philosophy of presidential authority.

Last week, an absurd campaign became even more absurd.

We should want more voters, not less, if we actually value representaitve democracy.

According to some historians, a President isn’t truly great unless he involves America in a bloody and destructive war.

The arrival of Discovery in Washington D.C. has led to another lament about “national greatness.”

Rex Huppke reports, “Facts died Wednesday, April 18, after a long battle for relevancy with the 24-hour news cycle, blogs and the Internet.”

John Edwards is a pathetic human being, but that doesn’t mean he’s necessarily a criminal.

An unusual proceeding, but an unsurprising result.

You’ve likely heard that Alabama’s 2011 football championship trophy was accidentally smashed last weekend by the father of one of the players. Now, as Paul Harvey would have said, for the rest of the story.

The commander of Fort Knox has canceled a Ted Nugent concert after the rocker’s recent rant about President Obama.

Pat Summitt’s predecessor stepped down as head coach to work on her doctorate.

Copy specific phrases and buzzwords from the job posting into the résumé and build them into the bullet points.

Newt Gingrich is still getting Secret Service protection at an estimated cost to taxpayers of $44,000 a day.

It would be nice if policies were assessed in terms of costs and benefits.

Some Marine women are going to Infantry Officers Course. Here’s how to make it work.

The consequences of ten years of war?

Legendary musician Levon Helm is dying.

Pat Summitt, arguably the greatest women’s basketball coach of all time, is stepping down to deal with Alzheimer’s .

Ted Nugent, whose music I really liked when I was in junior high school, said something vile and crazy.

Thomas Friedman is fantasizing about Michael Bloomberg again.

Andy Baio and friends have undertaken an interesting project: color coding political blogs to track bias.

The story of Ensign Chuck Lord may be the greatest—or perhaps only—prank in Pentagon art history

The Atlantic’s Max Fisher reflects on “What America Can Learn From Norway’s Anders Breivik Trial.”