Magazine - Features
Georgia on everybody’s mind
Georgia’s electoral votes aren’t likely to decide the 2020 election. But the “Empire State of the South” will live up to that 19th-century moniker with an outsize…
August 25, 2020
Magazine - Your Land
Word of the Week: ‘Tomahawk’
“Look! Up in the sky!” “It’s a bird!” “It’s a plane!” No, it’s yet another set of inane controversies over words. In mid-August, the Washington Post reported…
Beltway Confidential
Hair-razing modern leftism
When I was a boy of 11 in 1968, the musical Hair was a big deal. I thought I was cool singing its songs to myself. My…
Magazine - Life & Arts
Post-mortem
It’s come to this. And given the passions of the day, I guess it had to: Even the U.S. Postal Service is now an object of suspicion.…
Education
The Friday Night Lights flip back on
There are no multicamera national television broadcasts. The field will be used by a soccer team in the winter, and the track that wraps around it will…
Magazine - Obituary
Robert Trump, 1948-2020
As our great-grandparents had the Roosevelts, our grandparents had the Kennedys, and our parents had the Bushes, we have the Trumps. In many ways, it is perfectly…
Magazine - Columnists
Lucky Joe
You don’t hear much about luck in national politics these days. But nothing played a more critical role in Joe Biden’s capture of the Democratic presidential nomination…
Magazine - Washington Briefing
Despite uncertain future, U.S. Africa Command boosts Sahel counterterrorism force
Terrorists in the Sahel region of Africa are poised to take advantage of uncertainty in the American defense posture following a recent Defense Department announcement, but U.S.…
Magazine - Life & Arts
Europe’s first family
On Nov. 1, 1921, the last Habsburg emperor of Austria-Hungary, Charles I, left Vienna for good. His empire, the second-largest state in Europe, had already disintegrated at…
Magazine - Features
Trump’s Christian soldiers
A conservative Northern Virginia pastor was holding court with his flock in the narthex of the church. This was in pre-pandemic times, before masks, social distancing, and…