Magazine - Lead Stories
California’s migrant mess
SAN DIEGO — Courtney Porter, 23, sat on a wall in front of the San Diego Convention Center last week with a backpack and carry-on suitcase. He…
April 6, 2021
Magazine - Features
Border towns struggle to afford the surge
GILA BEND, Arizona — Tim Micklin sells thick woolen blankets and large specialty flags out of the back of a white van in Gila Bend. He’s parked…
Immigration
On the front lines of the border crisis
MCALLEN, Texas — The sleepy-looking downtown of McAllen would give passersby no reason to believe it is the epicenter of a border surge that threatens to consume…
Editorials
Joe Biden’s border crisis
Democrats and the liberal media are policing the words we should use to describe the absolute catastrophe we’re witnessing each day at the southern border. They don’t…
Magazine - Columnists
Why they will never cancel Foucault
Imagine if a political philosopher from outside the hard Left — John Rawls, say, or Karl Popper — was credibly alleged to have abused small boys. He…
Beltway Confidential
Media’s Jekyll-and-Hyde act on immigration
There’s “no migrant ‘surge’ at the U.S. southern border,” a Washington Post headline declared on March 25, the report itself asserting there is neither “a surge” nor…
Magazine - Obituary
G. Gordon Liddy, 1930-2021
In 1966, an ambitious young prosecutor in Dutchess County, New York, had the bright idea of staging a raid on the communal home of Timothy Leary. G.…
Magazine - Life & Arts
I’m sorry, Barbara
I am almost never on Facebook, but last week, as I was waiting to board a plane, I started idly flipping around on my phone, and once…
Magazine - Washington Briefing
America’s coming robot Navy: What could go wrong?
Later this month, off the coast of San Diego, California, the U.S. Navy will be test-sailing what it sees as its destiny. A single manned surface ship,…
Magazine - Life & Arts
Roth’s complaints
The next time literary biographer Blake Bailey sits down to write a book, would it be possible for him to select a subject who isn’t a) a…