Outside the Beltway

Another study shows that voter ID laws negatively affect a lot of Americans.

Some interesting developments in Pyongyang.

Several key members of the Syrian government were killed in a suicide bomb attack today in Damascus.

Nick Cohen dubs this year’s London Games the “Censorship Olympics.” Had he called them the “London Censorship Olympics,” the “2012 Censorship Olympics,” or titled the piece “Censorship Takes London Gold” he might have faced civil or criminal penalties.

“The average Canadian has quietly become richer than the average American,” claims a pro-Canada organization.

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

Were the Colonists wrong to toss aside the British Empire so casually?

A nine month Al Jazeera investigations indicates that poison may have played a role in Yasser Arafat’s 2004 death.

However, he and his party have hardly taken over.

London’s iconic clock tower, known affectionately as “Big Ben” for some 150 years, has been renamed “Elizabeth Tower” in honor of QE2’s 60 years as royal figurehead.

America’s Drug War has caused more problems for Mexico than Fast & Furious ever will.

The candidate of the Muslim Brotherhood is the next President of Egypt, but the political future of Egypt itself remains quite murky.

President Fernando Lugo of Paraguay was impeached and removed from office this week.

The slow motion election continues at least one more day.

Gas prices are falling nationwide but that’s mostly because the economy kind of stinks.

Fast and furious, or a lot of sound and fury signifying not too much?

What hath a fury greater than a woman scorned? Hundreds of scorned women with Twitter accounts.

Mitt Romney’s confrontational approach to Russia makes no sense.

Jeffrey Goldberg asks, “What if Mitt Romney were Jewish?”