Magazine - Columnists
Will the Brexit Party prevent Brexit?
Here is a paradox. The Brexit Party, despite its name, cannot deliver Brexit, but might yet prevent it. Nigel Farage established the Brexit Party in January after…
December 10, 2019
Columnists
He makes a village
SAVANNAH, Georgia — Tyler Merritt has taken the saying “It takes a village to raise a child” and turned it a bit sideways. He’s building a village,…
Magazine - Life & Arts
LBJ’s Great Folly
Calvin Coolidge once advised his commerce secretary, Herbert Hoover, that “if you see ten troubles coming down the road, you can be sure that nine of them…
Magazine - Obituary
D.C. Fontana, 1939-2019
Courting female fans has become a priority among entertainment companies. But long before that was the case, Dorothy Catherine “D.C.” Fontana, who died last week at age…
Crime
The virtue of vengeance
With the alt-right’s nighttime, torchlit march on Charlottesville, where chants of “Jews will not replace us!” could be heard, and the disruption of European soccer matches by…
Magazine
Small-town America fights for its life
IMOGENE, Iowa — Main Street is an unpaved gravel lane, wide enough for one car. Along the street’s entire three blocks, there is not a single business.…
Magazine - Life & Arts
Captain America
Tiger Woods will turn 44 later this month. For 42 of those years, he has been in the public consciousness to one degree or another. We knew…
Infrastructure
Pothole problem
U.S. cities have a pothole problem. An estimated 55 million of these pesky pits litter roads across the country, and some of them have the potential to…
Energy and Environment
Trump EPA can help companies and prosecute them, former EPA official says
Environmental enforcement is alive and well in the Trump administration. In fact, some of the changes the Environmental Protection Agency is making could strengthen oversight of polluters,…
Magazine - Your Land
Word of the Week: Malarkey
The Joe Biden 2020 campaign rolled out a bus emblazoned with a shiny new slogan: “No malarkey!” The Oxford English Dictionary dates “malarkey” — and the alternate…