Beltway Confidential
The Colorado Model
I was talking with Rep. Kevin McCarthy recently about Republican chances in 2020. Naturally, he hopes to regain the House majority and wrest the speaker’s gavel from…
February 11, 2020
Economy
Ohio still waiting on Trump’s manufacturing revival
“Don’t move. Don’t sell your house,” President Trump told a cheering crowd in Youngstown, Ohio, in July 2017. The speech was made just 15 miles down the…
Magazine - Life & Arts
The Turning is a disappointing take on a masterpiece
In 1898, the expatriate American writer Henry James, a solitary man in search of even more solitude, was looking to move out of London. His brother, William,…
Immigration
Pay Dirt
When Jeanine Cummins’s novel American Dirt, about a mother and son’s perilous odyssey from cartel-ravaged Mexico to the United States, was named an Oprah’s Book Club selection,…
Business
Wage growth slowed for a good reason
President Trump has positioned himself as a job creator in the run-up to the 2020 elections. With the unemployment rate at a 50-plus-year low at 3.5%, he…
Magazine - Life & Arts
Three rules for life
When you meet someone for the first time, the worst thing you can hear is, “Actually, we’ve met before.” Well, maybe not the worst. The worst thing…
Business
Pink taxation without representation
Peruse the aisles of any drugstore in the United States, and you may notice the “pink tax.” From soap to shower gel, women’s products cost an average…
Energy and Environment
Trump and GOP push to help plant 1 trillion trees won’t be easy
President Trump and congressional Republicans are rallying around the idea of planting a trillion trees to boost their environmental credentials ahead of the 2020 election. House Republican…
Magazine - Life & Arts
The death of the presidential author
When we think of books and presidents, we tend to think of books about, not by, our commanders in chief. Some books have been influential in shaping…
Magazine - Washington Briefing
Trump and Pelosi feud reaches boiling point
They have one of the most important relationships in Washington, but Speaker Nancy Pelosi and President Trump aren’t even on speaking terms. In fact, the two haven’t…