Magazine - Life & Arts
Don’t call me Shirley
When I was 8 years old, life seemed so very serious to me. I remember it as an age when truths are told by parents: Yes, there…
August 25, 2020
Magazine - Life & Arts
Street-fighting men
“History doesn’t repeat itself,” Mark Twain reputedly said, “but it often rhymes.” Twain’s actual words, found in his 1873 book The Gilded Age, were less pithy: “History…
Beltway Confidential
Ask not …
The Democratic primary in Massachusetts is showing that times have changed in that state. In a recent campaign ad, Sen. Ed Markey adopts a quote made famous…
Magazine - Life & Arts
The pandemic workout blues
My health club has never been so tidy. Pre-pandemic, I would arrive for my pre-dawn workouts knowing that before I could do anything, I would have to…
Columnists
What will Never Trumpers do if Biden and Harris win?
Should Joe Biden end up winning the presidency, his endorsers who still claim to identify as conservatives will face a test: Will they join the fight against…
Beltway Confidential
Do Democrats hear what they are saying?
Today’s Alice in Wonderland political rhetoric means almost no outlandish assertion is completely surprising. There are so many false, new orthodoxies that attempting to compile a comprehensive…
Business
V-shaped economic recovery requires more free trade, not tariffs
It seems evident that President Trump will need a blockbuster economic revival if he hopes to win reelection in November. Part of the equation to achieve that…