Magazine - Life & Arts
Are we there yet?
The first truly memorable thing I saw outdoors after three months confined to my house was a Megarhyssa macrurus, or long-tailed giant ichneumonid wasp, depositing its egg…
August 10, 2021
Infrastructure
Infrastructure bill escalates climate change clash
Liberal Democrats and climate change activists are vying to make big changes to the nation’s transit and power grid with infrastructure and social spending packages. But Republicans…
Columnists
Small-town survival amid a pandemic
All weekend in the tiny Southwest Iowa farm town of Imogene, throughout its annual Shamrock Days celebration — at the Emerald Isle, at St. Patrick’s Church, at…
Magazine - Washington Briefing
Senate report says agencies including Homeland Security and State have substandard security measures
Government agencies are putting citizen data at risk through poor cybersecurity practices, such as running legacy systems and applications no longer supported by the vendor with security…
Magazine - Life & Arts
Putting the baby to work
Living with a baby in the house is a little like having a drunken bum as a roommate. There’s a lot of unintelligible gurgling, jerky hand movements,…
Magazine - Features
The ‘disinformation’ deception
“We’re flagging problematic posts for Facebook that spread disinformation,” White House press secretary Jen Psaki said, almost matter-of-factly, in July. The same week, Biden communications director Kate…
Economy
Republican Bill Cassidy’s push to address climate change ‘resilience’ in the infrastructure bill
The bipartisan infrastructure bill advancing in Congress would provide tens of billions of dollars to help cities and states protect against the effects of climate change, the…
Magazine - Life & Arts
Righteous storm
Military life has a way of rapidly and unexpectedly changing. On Jan. 16, 1991, Air Force Tech Sgt. Chris Johnsen was stationed in Germany with the 23rd…
Magazine - Washington Briefing
Alaska’s growing strategic importance
When Secretary of State William Seward closed the deal to buy what was then known as “Russian America” from Czar Alexander in 1867, he knew he’d pulled…
Healthcare
Uber ride-sharing prevented over 200 drunken driving deaths in 2019
The ride-sharing app Uber helped prevent more than 200 drunken driving-related deaths in 2019, according to economists who had access to the company’s proprietary data. “When we…