Topic - Jimmy Carter

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  KNIGHT: Voter fraud in this life and the next

  Did you know that according to a new Pew study, more than 1.8 million dead people are registered to vote? And that leading Democrats are fiercely opposing new laws that tighten voting requirements?

• 'Trombone Shorty' to perform at White House

  Jazz and funk musician Troy "Trombone Shorty" Andrews is performing on Mardi Gras, but he won't be in his hometown of New Orleans. He'll be at the White House.

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  KUHNER: End of the Constitution

  Is America sliding toward autocratic rule? This is the essential question of Barack Obama's presidency. Mr. Obama vowed to "fundamentally transform" the United States. Despite his incompetence and economic failure, the president is making good on his central promise: the destruction of our constitutional republic.

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  Critics slam Obama's handling of Arab Spring

  Growing instability from Syria to Egypt highlights the Obama administration's failure to develop a consistent strategy for promoting democracy in the wake of popular uprisings in the region, analysts say.

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  No cigar: Economic embargo on Cuba turns 50

  When it started, American teenagers were doing the twist, the United States had yet to put a man into orbit around the Earth, and a first-class U.S. postage stamp cost 4 cents.

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  WOLF: Obamacare is worth getting angry about

  In November, Republicans will face an incumbent whose failed presidency makes Jimmy Carter look worthy of Mount Rushmore. And they will lose unless they focus like a laser on the two intertwined strands of disastrous DNA that define the Obama era: Obamanomics and Obamacare. It is mystifying, then, that the GOP would risk surrendering either of these issues.

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  HANSON: Fidelity and the presidency

  The news media seem obsessed with the serial affairs of a younger Newt Gingrich back in the last century. The anger of his second of three wives mysteriously became national news on ABC's "Nightline" on the eve of the South Carolina primary. Millions watched Mrs. Gingrich II complain that Newt and the current Mrs. Gingrich III had done to her (while ill) just about the same thing that she and Newt had earlier done to Mrs. Gingrich I (while ill).

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  FIELDS: Is America in decline?

  T here's a debate just behind the Republican search for a winning candidate, just at the edges of President Obama's campaign for re-election, about whether America is finished. These debaters put it in the form of a polite academic question: Is America in decline?

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  KNIGHT: Many to benefit from president's ruling, but not us

  Checking his sundial and solar-powered calendar, Barack Obama has decided that he did not have enough time to study the impact of the $7 billion Keystone XL pipeline from Canada, so he killed it.

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  EDITORIAL: Employment advice for Obama

  President Obama brainstormed at the White House Wednesday at a forum on "insourcing American jobs." The administration's greatest political vulnerability is sky-high unemployment. The basic idea that trickled out of the session was America must "bring back" jobs from overseas by raising taxes on companies that invest abroad. That's a bad idea.

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  BOOK REVIEW: 'Tension City'

  Jim Lehrer is the avuncular, even-keeled executive editor and anchor of "PBS NewsHour" who has moderated 11 of the nationally televised presidential and vice-presidential debates. As a journalist and as a moderator, Mr. Lehrer tells us he attempts to play it straight down the middle, always aware that he and his opinions are never the story and never should inform the questions he asks.

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  MEYER AND HARDEN: Generation Y asks 'why us?'

  President Obama, who rode into the presidency on a wave of youth enthusiasm, has seen his support among young people fall by nearly 30 points since he took office. Young people are disappointed that this administration's policies failed to live up to the hope-filled rhetoric of 2008, but more pointedly, America's youth are taking an economic beating.

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  Inside Politics

  The Pentagon is unveiling a strategy designed to manage hundreds of billions in budget cuts without sapping the military's strength.

• Jimmy Carter's latest book offers lessons in faith

  Jimmy Carter may never have been president if he didn't go square dancing.

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  Inside Politics

  Club for Growth's political arms on Tuesday launched a media attack against three moderate Republican congressional candidates in battleground states, accusing them of failing to live up to conservative fiscal principles.

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