Economy
Dollar against dollar
In Roger Lowenstein’s latest book, Ways and Means: Lincoln and His Cabinet and the Financing of the Civil War, Secretary of the Treasury Salmon Chase, the 37th…
April 26, 2022
Magazine - Life & Arts
Mysteries of the boulevardier and Negroni, solved
The Negroni (equal parts gin, sweet vermouth, and Campari) and the boulevardier (the same but with bourbon instead of gin) are the cocktail equivalent of Masonic handshakes.…
Business
The Open App Markets Act spurs significant debate
Apple CEO Tim Cook warns Washington against “Big Tech” antitrust regulations that sacrifice privacy and security on iPhones. Cook used his keynote address at the International Association…
Magazine - Life & Arts
There are no literalists in foxholes
A green second lieutenant from Pasadena, California, Paul Fussell was wounded while hunting Germans in the forests of Alsace during the last year of World War II.…
Business
Pot’s broken promises
April began with federal marijuana legalization passing the House, and activists are pressing Democratic Majority Leader Chuck Schumer to bring it to a vote in the Senate…
Magazine - Your Land
All the news that partisans want to watch
CNN’s Brian Stelter has somehow managed to make a career out of bashing Fox News. CNN bills Stelter as the network’s “chief media correspondent,” but tune into…
Magazine - Life & Arts
Domination by deception
Niccolo Machiavelli wrote centuries ago in The Prince that a political leader must “be a great pretender and dissembler” because “men are so simple, and so subject…
Business
A free-market oasis in the desert
Term-limited Arizona Republican Gov. Doug Ducey leaves office this year after a six-year run during which he balanced the state budget, shrunk the state government, cut taxes,…
Immigration
Biden’s selective COVID emergency
Is the pandemic over now, or will it end in May, or August, or after Election Day? Depending on the issue, the Biden administration’s answer is “all…
Magazine - Features
The infielders who changed America
The Chicago Cubs, improbably, were riding a nine-game winning streak on Sept. 14, 1953, facing the first-place Brooklyn Dodgers for the second game of a two-game set.…