Business
Strike threatens to further derail economy
A three-member emergency board President Joe Biden has tasked with helping major freight railroads and unions end a contract stalemate is out with its recommendations. The Aug.…
August 23, 2022
Beltway Confidential
Skepticism and misinformation
I am once again asking corporate media to stop taking statements from the Justice Department and the intelligence community at face value. Former President Donald Trump claimed…
Magazine - Features
Russia’s appetite for destruction
It’s a calm spring day in Kyiv, free of the air raid sirens warning of impending Russian cruise missiles, when I meet Anzor Maskhadov in a nondescript…
Business
Revolt of the fat cats
You’ve likely noticed that once-solid, dependable companies have taken very public, very partisan, very unpopular positions, all of which seem to fit with the political agenda of…
Magazine - Life & Arts
Werner Herzog, debut novelist
Werner Herzog is the bard of the man against. In films such as Aguirre, the Wrath of God, Fitzcarraldo, Little Dieter Needs to Fly, Grizzly Man, and…
Magazine - Life & Arts
Nothing left to lose
The first episode of the HBO docuseries The Anarchists opens with a book burning. Children on a Mexican beach scream obscenities, tear pages from massive hardcovers they…
Magazine - Your Land
As climate heats up, America chills out
Europe may be going through a record heat wave, and the Mountain West is experiencing a drought, but people across the United States are now less concerned…
Magazine - Life & Arts
A writer’s eye view
I know a woman in Texas who was helping her very old grandmother move out of her very old house and into an assisted living facility. Don’t…
Magazine - Your Land
Sometimes, carrots are not enough
“I was concerned because I’ve never been in trouble in my life,” Kayla Phillips told National Public Radio. “And if we would have stayed out there another…
Business
New Democratic spending law draws criticism over taxes
The Inflation Reduction Act, a broad social spending law enacted this summer by President Joe Biden and congressional Democrats, will dramatically increase federal spending on climate and…