Magazine - Life & Arts
Chris Pine keeps on fighting in The Contractor
Last month, after only 40 days of retirement, Tom Brady announced that he would be returning to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers for what will be his 23rd…
April 12, 2022
Infrastructure
Biden administration is intervening in a Surface Transportation Board decision
The Biden administration is asking the Surface Transportation Board, the independent, appointed body that regulates U.S. rail, to set a precedent by forcing railways to let Amtrak…
Magazine - Your Land
Politics would be better as basketball
People often complain that our politics are treated too much like sports. But perhaps it isn’t so — and we would be better off if it were…
Magazine - Obituary
Estelle Harris, 1928-2022
The show was called Seinfeld, but Jerry Seinfeld, the co-creator, star, and lead character of the classic sitcom, was never the main attraction. No one was. Jerry…
Magazine - Life & Arts
Can Bob Dylan paint?
Bob Dylan’s done it all; some would even say that America’s preeminent songwriter and “song-and-dance man,” as he once called himself, has done too much. Dylan’s recorded…
Magazine - Your Land
Word of the Week: ‘Inspiration’
We are often totally unaware of where the words we use come from — even, or especially, words we use all the time. The prime examples of…
Magazine - Life & Arts
Secretary of the invisible thing
As one of Don DeLillo’s displaced East Coast professors says in the novel White Noise, “California deserves whatever it gets. Californians invented the concept of life-style. This…
Business
What is next for Twitter now that Elon Musk is on the board?
The world’s wealthiest man is now Twitter’s largest shareholder and newest board member. According to SEC filings, Elon Musk acquired 9.2% of Twitter’s common stock and will…
Foreign Policy
Congressional Republicans criticize small defense increase in Biden’s budget blueprint
President Joe Biden, late last month, unveiled a proposed $5.8 trillion budget that seeks to address urgent problems facing his administration at home and abroad, all while…
