Business
The business end of TikTok
In the book business, there are technical bestselling authors who manage to hawk anywhere from a few thousand to tens of thousands of copies in a relatively short sales window.…
April 23, 2024
The new way of war: How US enemies foster American anger, disunity, and self-doubt
Foreign Policy
Israel and Arab states need to work together against Iran
In a shocking act of provocation, the Islamic Republic of Iran sent more than 200 drones and missiles screaming over the Israeli sky. Thankfully, Israel and its…
Magazine
Amash attempts Michigan comeback: Can a libertarian still win in Trump’s GOP?
Former Rep. Justin Amash served in Congress for exactly one decade, with his final years in Washington, D.C., featuring him dramatically quitting the GOP, voting to impeach…
Justice
Left-wing district attorneys, selective prosecution, and the 2024 campaign combine to damage the rule of law
The Prussian general and strategist Carl von Clausewitz famously said that “war is the continuation of policy with other means.” But that was in the 1830s. Here…
Magazine
Lynne Reid Banks, 1929-2024
For those of us who grew up in the 1980s and ’90s, Lynne Reid Banks’s Indian in the Cupboard novels held something of the same appeal as…
Magazine - Your Land
Churches close as Baltimore closes its heart
No city is as integral to the history of the Catholic Church in the United States as Baltimore. In 1789, Pope Pius VI established Baltimore as the…
Defense
Iranian attack on Israel sparks US concern about wider, regional conflict
President Joe Biden has spent the last six months fervently trying to prevent the Middle East from devolving into a regional war. Yet Iran’s drone and missile…
Magazine - Your Land
The lonely grind
The largest smartphone “dating” app for gay people believes it can boost its stock price, it seems, by optimizing even more for promiscuity and sex with strangers.…
Magazine - Life & Arts
Guys like us
“Short guys like us,” a friend of mine said to me recently, “should never get their pictures taken when they’re standing next to someone tall.” “Short guys…
Beltway Confidential
California splits the salmon
Nothing is quite as Californian as the lose-lose policymaking of hamstringing oneself for a pointless cause and failing in that cause anyway. California’s water policy over the…