Magazine - Features
Original Sinema
The last time a Democrat won an open Senate seat in Arizona, he was helped along by a GOP candidate who never recovered from a campaign misstep…
April 16, 2019
Beltway Confidential
A tale of two heartbeats
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, a multimedia artist whose work now spans the second floor of the Hirshhorn Museum in D.C., wants to resist nationalism. He says that’s the purpose…
Beltway Confidential
Facebook’s ghosts
On Monday, Facebook announced new features to deal with a growing demographic on the platform: the dead. The company had already introduced options for users to memorialize…
Magazine - Life & Arts
Drinking like Homer
Even “their women drank,” the Greek philosopher Plato once groused about the wine-drinking Thracians of what is now southern Bulgaria. And why not? Taking time off from…
Magazine - Washington Briefing
Record numbers sign petition against ‘meme’ article
Online petitioners clamored in record numbers for the European Union to abandon the controversial Article 17, formerly Article 13, of its new directive on Copyright in the…
Healthcare
Rural areas behind in the fight against opioids
Angi Edwards-Matheson, the assistant clinical director of the Southwest Behavioral Health Center in Utah, faces a major problem in fighting the opioid epidemic afflicting the state’s rural…
Business
Word of the Week: ‘Emotional’
The old saying has it that “if you don’t have anything nice to say, don’t say anything at all.” This is, of course, censorious nonsense meant to…
Infrastructure
Infrastructure package will come down to the money
When it comes to the possibility of a sweeping infrastructure package, it’s all about the money. Despite some gridlock between the White House and Congress, lawmakers are…
Columnists
An answer to the cost of college and community collapse: Community colleges
PITTSBURGH — When the Pirates opened their season last week at PNC Park, Nathan Sibley, a York County, Pa., kid who struggled in high school and subsequently…