Magazine
Pride and peril in punditry
We pundits occasionally make predictions that fool us into believing we’re blessed with uncommon insight. One, for me, was forecasting Republican gains in the 2002 midterm congressional…
December 10, 2019
Magazine - Life & Arts
I can’t get no Santasfaction
It’s with futile hope that, this time each year, I break out the previous year’s Christmas lights. Emphasis on “break.” Every year on New Year’s Day, I…
Healthcare
HIV prevention on demand?
Pharmacists have more power in some states than patients might realize. They vaccinate, provide overdose-reversal antidotes, and even prescribe birth control, all without the patient seeing a…
Magazine - Washington Briefing
Democratic lawmakers: Amtrak’s new arbitration policy will ‘stack the deck’ against consumers
Democratic lawmakers and consumer interest groups are pressuring the rail operator Amtrak to rescind the newest version of its ticketing agreement. Amtrak overhauled part of its ticketing…
Magazine - Washington Briefing
Google’s most tenacious pest: Yelp’s Luther Lowe
Luther Lowe, policy chief at review website Yelp, has been on a crusade against Google for the better part of the last decade. This week, after Google…
Magazine - Your Land
If you outlaw water guns, only outlaws will have water guns
You can buy weed and smoke up in Las Vegas. You can find a stripper or a prostitute. You can gamble anywhere. And you can get married…
Magazine - Washington Briefing
‘Snoozefest’: Trump campaign veterans say tale of two billionaires is stark
For the first month of President Trump’s campaign in 2015, many Republicans weren’t sure if he was sincerely trying to win. Now, the same feeling is being…
Magazine - Features
Lebanon is gone
As Lebanon grapples for the second month with popular anti-government protests, there’s been a tempest in a teapot on Capitol Hill over the status of military assistance…
Magazine - Your Land
Peloton panic
Controversial advertisements from this past year have ranged from a Gillette commercial to that notorious Colin Kaepernick ad that ended up winning an Emmy Award. The most…
