Outside the Beltway

The major you choose in college will have an impact on your future.

Another potential scandal in New Orleans.

The American economy is so bad that people are reverse migrating to the Third World.

Republicans should have listened to Mitch Daniels, because he was right.

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.