Columnists
Republicans cannot shake their harmful Trump addiction
For most of my life, I was a bigger supporter of the U.S. Republicans than of my own party, the British Conservatives. The two parties were similar…
August 16, 2022
Magazine - Life & Arts
The deeper meaning of Bruce Lee
When Bruce Lee died mysteriously in 1973, he was on the cusp of becoming the first international Chinese film star. He was already a star in Hong…
Magazine - Your Land
Word of the Week: ‘Spaz’
On her June single “GRRRLS,” pop icon Lizzo sang, “I’m a spaz.” Two months later, Beyonce included the line “spazzin’ on that a**, spaz on that a**”…
Magazine - Life & Arts
The unacknowledged legislators of the world
W.H. Auden hated Percy Bysshe Shelley’s apothegm that poets are “the unacknowledged legislators of the world.” That phrase, he wrote, “describes the secret police, not the poets.”…
Magazine - Your Land
Polarized paradise
The city’s high school principal lives in a camper. A small business owner lives out of his truck. A family of six lives in a two-car garage.…
Education
Set school districts free
As school children head back to class this fall, the hangover from pandemic school policies continues to buffet public education. The stubborn refusal by big city school…
Beltway Confidential
America’s teachable moment
Message coordination is something Democrats do well, usually much better than Republicans and conservatives. The Left is like Napoleon, who won because he focused his forces on…
Magazine - Your Land
There’s no place like homeless
Much is made of increasing shelter capacity for homeless people across the country. But what if many of them simply don’t want to be sheltered? It is…
Magazine - Washington Briefing
Biden tries to tread carefully after FBI searches Trump’s home
President Joe Biden’s relationship with the Justice Department has become more complicated after the FBI enforced a search warrant at former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home and…
Business
Eating by algorithm
I had a friend in high school who spent part of her summer working at McDonald’s. And one of the reasons McDonald’s makes so much money is…