February 12, 2019
Magazine - Personal Finance
Weighing cash against an audit
Person A makes $500,000 a year. Person B makes $20,000 a year. Who is more likely to be selected for a tax audit? The answer might surprise…
Magazine - Life & Arts
Like a prayer
Although now one of the best-known medieval morality tales, Le Jongleur de Notre Dame, or The Juggler of Our Lady, only became popular when the French author…
Magazine - Life & Arts
New York Knicks, dumpster fire
Start spreading the news. The unicorn is leaving New York. And the irony shouldn’t be lost on Knicks fans. First, they booed Kristaps Porzingis after his name…
Magazine - Your Land
Too famous to be famous
The Feb. 6 birthday of Babe Ruth, coming mere weeks before spring training starts, is as good an occasion as any to think about why we shall…
Infrastructure
Infrastructure, crumbling
“Both parties should be able to unite for a great rebuilding of America’s crumbling infrastructure,” President Trump said in his State of the Union address on Tuesday…
Magazine - Life & Arts
Pole position
It’s not difficult to imagine my confusion when Bill Mays, 92, told me he was a Marine captain of a rifle platoon and followed up saying, “I…
Beltway Confidential
Letter from the editor: Feb. 12, 2019
A couple of years ago, commentary editor Timothy P. Carney and I realized we needed a new approach to writing editorials about the Bill of Rights. Once…
Business
House rules
Buying and selling property reveals a lot about a culture — the good, the bad, and the ugly. Economics and culture are, of course, intertwined, and never…
Beltway Confidential
Vacuous vacuuming
At Washington’s Flashpoint Gallery, Ivanka Trump is vacuuming crumbs. Or at least, a 16-year-old model dressed like Trump is vacuuming crumbs, and more than a dozen visitors…