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.