Magazine - Your Land
Watching the big game
Sports records are falling left and right. New stars are being made. Welcome to the life of an American sports fan at a time when no sports…
April 28, 2020
Magazine - Washington Briefing
Trump’s senior moment
When the first bit of organized conservative discontent with the anti-coronavirus quarantines bubbled to the surface, President Trump was quick to signal his support. He tweeted that…
Magazine - Life & Arts
Prep school
I read Notes from an Apocalypse: A Personal Journey to the End of the World and Back while quarantined in my apartment in New York, bedridden and…
Magazine - Business
China deserves stringent financial penalties for its role in the COVID-19 outbreak
We’ve known for years communist China lies and cheats and steals when it comes to international trade. Now, we’ve learned that it also spread the deadly disease,…
Magazine - Features
Crime against humanity
Dr. Deborah Birx was discussing global mortality rates at one of the near-daily White House Coronavirus Task Force press briefings alongside a curious chart. China’s numbers had…
Beltway Confidential
From social distancing to strategic distancing
Before being handed over to China’s tender mercies in 1997, Hong Kong’s people feared that reunification would kill the colony’s wealth-generating boom. A foreboding joke went, “China…
Magazine - Life & Arts
Renaissance man
There are, or were, before assorted 20th-century innovations, broadly two kinds of lyric poetry: the poetry of exaggeration (of the virtues of the poet’s beloved, of the…
Magazine - Your Land
Essentially high
April 20 has become its own kind of holiday, celebrated by devotees to cannabis and the culture it has created. But this year’s 4/20 looked a little…
Magazine - Washington Briefing
Republicans and Democrats set to clash on more coronavirus spending
Even before Congress passed a $484 billion coronavirus aid package last week, Democrats were planning something even more significant for the weeks ahead. Speaker Nancy Pelosi and…
Energy and Environment
Biden’s promise to ban federal drilling wouldn’t significantly reduce emissions
Joe Biden’s pledge to block oil and gas drilling on federal lands and waters would likely not be effective in reducing emissions over the long term, considering…