Business
Elon Musk vs. Twitter
Based on many of the reactions to billionaire Elon Musk’s offer to buy Twitter last week, you’d think the world was ending when, really, the only thing…
April 26, 2022
Beltway Confidential
That giant exhaling sound is post-pandemic relief
A line of cars inching along a once-quiet rural road in Maine recently prompted the realization that traffic is not back at pre-pandemic levels but now exceeds…
Business
Ron Arnold, 1937-2022
In early 1981, Interior Secretary Jim Watt telephoned me in my office at the other end of the two-block Department of the Interior building in Washington, D.C.…
Business
House and Senate versions of the Innovation Act won’t be wed without a fight
It’s hard enough to get a bill passed in one chamber of Congress but somehow more complicated when two similar, but not identical, bills pass in the…
Magazine - Features
Parent trap
“More needs to be done to improve foster kids’ options for stability in their lives. Premature modification of parental rights too often leaves children in foster care…
Infrastructure
No more masks on planes, trains, and buses — for now
Betting markets had favored April 18 as the day the federal mask mandate on public transportation would finally get lifted. That is basically what happened — but…
Beltway Confidential
Rotten to the core
It’s one thing for a lone journalist to be a toxic sociopath, abusing power and position for political and personal ends. It’s another thing entirely for that…
Magazine - Washington Briefing
Trump’s JD Vance gamble in Ohio
Former President Donald Trump finally took the plunge into the Ohio Republican primary to potentially succeed retiring Sen. Rob Portman, throwing his weight behind Hillbilly Elegy author…
Magazine - Washington Briefing
Army scrambles to find new recruits at the same time it boots vaccine refusers
When the Army announced last month it would be temporarily reducing the size of its force over the next two years by 12,000 soldiers, from 485,000 down…
Magazine - Life & Arts
Car casting in film: The good, the bad, and the ridiculous
Who can forget the Jaguar E-Type driven by James Bond in Goldfinger? I can think of one person: Sir William Lyons, the founder and head of Jaguar,…