Magazine - Life & Arts
The shallow depths of Lana Del Rey
After a brief false start to her career under her given name of Lizzy Grant, the pop chanteuse Lana Del Rey emerged fully formed with her 2012…
April 4, 2023
Magazine - Life & Arts
That is the question
On December 17, 2010, the Tunisian street vendor Mohamed Bouazizi set himself on fire after police confiscated his fruit and beat him. Unlike other suicide methods, self-immolation…
Magazine - Your Land
Why so many dad jokes? That’s just how eye roll
When does a joke become a dad joke? When the punchline is a parent. When does it become so much more than a joke? When it helps…
Magazine - Life & Arts
Semper infidelis
In September 2021, I wrote about the liars, the guys who exaggerate or completely fabricate the story of their military service. Last week, I encountered a liar…
Infrastructure
Lights out
One would think that the government of the District of Columbia, from the mayor’s office down to the Advisory Neighborhood Commission, had been established as an institution…
Magazine - Washington Briefing
From Des Moines to Jerusalem
Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) is widely seen as the chief 2024 Republican primary rival to former President Donald Trump. DeSantis hasn’t said he’s in, but the governor’s…
Magazine - Life & Arts
The true communist history of International Women’s Day
As a descendant of the island of Eire who has, on occasion, made a nuisance of himself on the Feast of St. Patrick, I don’t begrudge anyone…
Beltway Confidential
Hope, belief, and why you should be watching Ted Lasso
Life is tough. It can be cruel, mean, and nasty, even before you start interacting with people. But through all this misery, what if one believed in…
Magazine - Life & Arts
Outer Banks is a pioneer in moodboard TV
Critics’ reaction to the third season of Netflix’s Instagram-filtered teenage original Outer Banks has, for the most part, been “Damn, it fell off.” (That’s Zoomer for “It…
Magazine - Obituary
John E. Woods, 1942-2023
In Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, and French, the word for “translation” — traduzione, traducción, tradução, traduction — is derived from the Latin root that also means “betrayal.” As…