Columnists
Russia is now acting from sheer, wanton cruelty
A year ago, I experienced a moment of heart-stopping beauty in the middle of a war. It happened in the House of Scientists in Odesa, built as…
August 1, 2023
Magazine - Washington Briefing
Vice President Kamala Harris plays the heavy in Biden’s 2024 fight for reelection
Vice President Kamala Harris is playing the heavy as she and President Joe Biden tag-team their 2024 reelection effort. When Republican presidential aspirants flocked to Iowa, home…
Education
Democrats knew school closures were disastrous
Imagine the following scenario. As the 2024 Republican presidential primary draws closer, education emerges as a key GOP flashpoint. Instead of typical debates over vouchers and charter…
Magazine
Impeachment inflation
Inflation is everywhere, and it isn’t all about the value of money. There’s grade inflation at university, for example, with Harvard student GPAs soaring from an average…
Magazine - Washington Briefing
House Democrats, eyeing majority, look to 18 GOP-held districts Biden won
Turning 18 means you’ve become an adult. For House Democrats in 2024, the number likely means winning the majority after two years in the political wilderness. Democrats…
Healthcare
GOP 2024 hopefuls united on opposition to abortion and youth transgender surgery
Former President Donald Trump made healthcare policy a key feature of his successful 2016 White House campaign. For 2024, he and the rest of the Republican field…
Magazine - Features
Hung Cao’s next call of duty
A year ago, Hung Cao was a political ingenue without campaign experience or name recognition when he surprised a crowded GOP primary field by winning the nomination…
Magazine - Life & Arts
The atom splits, the genders unite, and the block busts
Last weekend’s twin cinematic debuts of Greta Gerwig’s Barbie and Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer didn’t just comprise a cultural event but also an economic one — the films…
Magazine - Features
Trying to be the ‘good’ human rights group
Some 70% of the people on the planet, according to the most frequently cited statistic, live under a dictatorship of one form or another. By the best…
Magazine - Life & Arts
The selected writing of one of America’s best black sportswriters
Wendell Smith, the pioneering African American sportswriter who worked for black-owned newspapers (Pittsburgh Courier) and white-owned newspapers (Chicago Sun-Times) between 1937 to 1972, was either the first,…