Magazine - Business
Facebook fine disappoints
Facebook’s $5 billion penalty from the Federal Trade Commission set records for its size, but critics fear that neither the cash nor the new operating requirements agreed…
August 6, 2019
Beltway Confidential
Erasing women from camp, darling!
If you’re looking forward to seeing an exhibition based on this year’s Metropolitan Museum of Art Met Gala, “Camp: Notes on Fashion,” you’ll be disappointed when you…
Beltway Confidential
Can you legislate respect for the police?
During New York’s heatwave, a shirtless man in Harlem flung a red bucket at a police officer trying to detain someone on the hood of his cruiser.…
Beltway Confidential
Giving the sweet life
For every cupcake Michael Platt bakes, he gives one away to the homeless. The baker from Bowie, Maryland, also uses his business to raise funds for local…
Magazine - Columnists
Boris Johnson is no Donald Trump
Now really, chaps, that’s quite enough. I must say it here: Boris Johnson is not Donald Trump. He doesn’t resemble the president except in the most superficial…
Magazine - Editorial
Democratic doomsayers
To hear most of the Democratic presidential candidates is to wonder if their role model growing up was Chicken Little. In a time of unprecedented peace and…
Beltway Confidential
Exit stage left
One of my first assignments as a reporter, in 1981, was at the press gallery of a local legislature. The standard of debate was not high. One…
Economy
Trump administration giving hi-tech visas new scrutiny
The administration began rejecting more visa extensions for immigrants with high-tech or other specialized skills, a little-noticed policy change that will put the brakes on migration. The…
Healthcare
Executive order gives hope to kidney patients
The Trump administration’s recent pledge to transform kidney care is cause for hope for late-stage kidney disease patients languishing on transplant lists and in dialysis clinics. However,…
Beltway Confidential
Taxing the Beach
Massachusetts might seem like a freezing tundra during the winter, but it’s always had lovely summers. Thousands flock every year to Cape Cod in the southern part…