Beltway Confidential
Generation Z makes music history
Lil Nas X started making memes, then music. It’s a Generation Z success story if there ever was one. The 20-year-old rapper, whose social media presence catapulted…
August 13, 2019
Magazine - Features
Obamacare? Never heard of it
The passage of Obamacare, then-Vice President Joe Biden famously said, was a “big f—ing deal.” Listening to the Democratic presidential debates, however, you might get a different…
Magazine - Life & Arts
Remember the Iowa
A few years after enlisting in the U.S. Navy, Jeff Pierce rated an E-3 seaman, serving as a yeoman working administration in the ship’s office aboard the…
Magazine - Washington Briefing
Gun rights supporters say Trump could lose their vote
Less than a week before calling for more gun control laws, President Trump invited boos at a massive Ohio campaign rally, warning 17,000 supporters that if Democrats…
Energy and Environment
Democrats struggling to face fact that their plans would all but end fossil fuels
Most Democratic presidential candidates running for president have rallied around a shared goal: Cutting greenhouse gas emissions to net-zero by 2050. However, few candidates appear to appreciate…
Beltway Confidential
Straws buried
If you aren’t willing to replace plastic straws with flimsy paper alternatives, you don’t care about the environment. We have to save the planet, and we’re going…
Magazine - Personal Finance
Then and Now: Trade
The trade war with China is heating up. The stock market is volatile as a result, and the Federal Reserve may have to cut rates again in…
Editorials
Don’t do ‘anything’ about gun violence
“Do something!” is the cry of the day. Hecklers disrupted a memorial service in Dayton to yell “Do something” at Republican Gov. Mike DeWine. A professional soccer…
Magazine - Life & Arts
Broken Arrow
It was my second perfect 60-yard practice shot from my Excalibur Assassin crossbow. And the minute I heard it strike the big “block” target, I knew it…
Beltway Confidential
A sidewalk of grief
A woman with short blond hair and eyes red from crying knelt before the door of Dayton’s Hole in the Wall bar, just a short walk from…