Magazine - Features
Reality check on gun control
The great challenge of gun control advocates is convincing enough people, or their representatives in Congress, that the next policy will do the trick and put a…
April 20, 2021
Magazine - Life & Arts
The Army’s Wild Kingdom
Once upon a time, there was a U.S. Army outpost outside the city of Farah in western Afghanistan. Army life there was progressing well. The soldiers knew…
Beltway Confidential
Wimpy in the White House
The man in the Oval Office is like Wimpy, Popeye’s foil, who’d “gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today.” Joe Biden demands trillions of dollars of…
Business
Polling shows slight majority support for mileage tax
Do a slim majority of people now support a vehicle miles traveled tax? That is one takeaway from the Mineta Transportation Institute’s 12th annual survey of taxation…
Magazine - Life & Arts
The exhausting cool of Rachel Kushner
The trouble with being cool is that you have to make it look natural, effortless, almost accidental, and maybe inevitable. It isn’t a simple matter of the…
Magazine - Washington Briefing
House Democrats hit the brakes on liberal wish list
Democratic leaders are tapping the breaks on some of the most liberal agenda items pushed by their far-left flank in the House and the Senate, including a…
Energy and Environment
Biden administration and industry alike see hydrogen as ‘Swiss Army knife’ for eliminating emissions
The Biden administration and all types of industry see developing a domestic hydrogen economy as a linchpin in the effort to eliminate U.S. emissions by 2050. The…
Healthcare
Biden pitches creation of high-risk, high-reward disease research division with a massive budget
The Biden administration proposed the creation of a high-risk, high-reward disease research agency called the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health to develop breakthrough treatments for cancer…
Economy
The open road
Early in the film Nomadland, the latest from writer-director Chloe Zhao and an Oscar nominee for best picture, protagonist Fern (Frances McDormand) faces a blunt question from…
Magazine - Washington Briefing
Could war with China be lost in cyberspace?
“It’s bad, Sandy.”“What’s bad?” he asked Hendrickson.“The Ford and the Miller, they’re gone.”“What do you mean gone?” That dialogue is an exchange between two characters in a…