Magazine - Life & Arts
Open container
The “honey deuce” is an odd cocktail to be the default drink of the U.S. Open. Odd, because it is missing any ingredient distinctively American. Consider the…
August 24, 2021
Magazine - Washington Briefing
Biden’s Afghanistan bungle will face a barrage of Capitol inquiries
The House will return next week to consider a $3.4 trillion budget resolution. Still, lawmakers will now carve out time to grill the Biden administration on the…
Business
End the real estate racket
The housing market is hot, hot, hot right now as home prices continue to soar in many markets to their highest prices ever. Since it doesn’t cost…
Foreign Policy
Afghanistan isn’t helping Biden build back better
This was supposed to be infrastructure summer. The Senate voted to advance a bipartisan piece of legislation funding roads, bridges, and other traditional brick-and-mortar projects alongside a…
Education
The N-word for me but not for thee
Can a person use the N-word as a slur against a black person in polite urban society? If that person is “anti-racist” and the target is a…
Magazine - Life & Arts
Truth will tear us apart
“Follow the science!” is the cry of some who think they love reason. They despise “science-deniers” and the politicians who manipulate them. Others wail that “common sense…
Magazine - Life & Arts
The noise and the fury
Marc Ribot’s new book, Unstrung: Rants and Stories of a Noise Guitarist, begins in a surprisingly earnest fashion for a musician who is considered the epitome of…
Magazine
America on the run
Sometimes, a single news event is so titanically important that it blows away every other story, even those that had seemed titanically important, such as Democrats piling…
Magazine - Features
Biden’s catastrophe
Responding to the disastrous fallout of his Afghanistan withdrawal, President Joe Biden declared that the “buck stops with me” — and then spent the rest of his…
Magazine - Your Land
Word of the Week: ‘Immunocompromised’
Early in 2021, with the vaccines in short supply, lots of people looked up for the first time whether, under the absurd measurement created in the 1800s,…