August 6, 2019
Economy
Pete Buttigieg fails his way to political stardom
Pete Buttigieg wants to be the youngest president ever elected. To get there he will have to prove to voters that his record as the youngest-ever mayor…
Magazine - Life & Arts
Hot Trout
It had been about two months since my brother-in-law Chris and I had last fished for trout when his email suggesting a day trip showed up in…
Magazine - Washington Briefing
The ticking time bomb of Taiwan
How China resolves the current crisis with Hong Kong may foreshadow the fate of another of its longstanding irritants, the free and independent island state of Taiwan,…
Immigration
Senate GOP rolls past Democrats on asylum
Senate Republicans, who have long avowed that the nation’s asylum laws are the main cause of the recent massive surge of illegal immigration over the southern border,…
Magazine - Personal Finance
Then and Now – Nukes
It was 74 years ago that the United States became the first and only country ever to use nuclear weapons in war, detonating two bombs over Hiroshima…
Magazine - Life & Arts
Zillennial Zeitgeist
In his new book, Panic Attack: Young Radicals in the Age of Trump, Robby Soave examines the activism of millennials and Gen Z — a combined cohort…
Energy and Environment
Manufacturing remains climate challenge with few solutions
Members of both parties are aiming to help reduce carbon emissions that result from the manufacturing of products like steel, cement, and iron — one of the…
Magazine - Features
Whatever happened to quicksand?
For the first 20 minutes that 34-year-old hiker Ryan Osmun was stuck in quicksand, he thought everything would be all right. “I pretty much thought it was…
Business
Capital One hack may force hearings, but little more
Americans have a long history of getting mad as hell about something and deciding they won’t tolerate it any more. Eventually, at any rate. British colonists complained…