Magazine - Life & Arts
Forest service
Almost 20 years ago, fed up with inside-the-Beltway living and the crappy schools and crime that came with it, my wife and I gassed up the Subaru…
February 12, 2019
Energy and Environment
Can coal compete?
There are no new coal plants under construction or planned in the United States today, as utilities instead look to natural gas, wind, and solar. But that…
Business
‘Right to repair’ your phone
More than a dozen states have introduced legislation that would give consumers more control over the electronics that they buy. Under “right to repair” laws, tech manufacturers…
Magazine - Features
Here’s my beef with the war on meat
Scientists have seen the future, and it is neither delicious nor satisfying. Or at least that’s the considered judgment of a panel of distinguished doctors and researchers,…
Economy
Democrat debacle on the Trump economy
“The Republican tax bill rigged the system against working people,” Stacey Abrams said Tuesday night in her Democratic response to President Trump’s State of the Union speech.…
Magazine
Middle America’s distrust of the major media isn’t Trump’s fault
JEFFERSON, OHIO — The banner headline in the Ashtabula Star Beacon the day after the President’s annual State of the Union Address was pretty straight forward. “Trump:…
Magazine - Features
The self-muzzling of the free world
To attend a meeting of the Danish Free Debate Society several years ago in Copenhagen, my name had to be submitted to the police in advance. A…
Beltway Confidential
The Super Bowl that America deserved
The 2019 Super Bowl exquisitely captured today’s mainstream American life: a culture that now screams, “Please don’t notice me!” There was nothing fun, new, or — God…
Magazine - Features
Women’s March becomes a goose step
The first Women’s March, in January 2017, was a giant, boisterous success. President Trump had just been inaugurated, and plenty of people were angry enough to take…
Foreign Policy
Trade war may not end ‘Made in China 2025’ threat
Beijing stopped talking publicly about its “Made in China 2025” plan for technological dominance once the initiative became a sticking point in a costly trade war with…