Magazine - Lead Stories
Obituary: Morton Sobell
When Hannah Arendt invented the idea of “the banality of evil,” she was writing about Nazi Germany. But the phrase has endured because it’s so adaptable to…
February 12, 2019
Magazine - Life & Arts
Not Watergate under the bridge
When Richard Nixon announced he was resigning the presidency in the wake of Watergate, it seemed that an earth-shaking decade of assassinations, uprisings, scandals, and cultural upheaval…
Opinion
The continuing creep of social injustice
Let’s start with the basics: What was so appalling about Liam Neeson’s behavior? When he was a young man, the Irish actor learned from a friend that…
Energy and Environment
‘Green New Deal’ unveiled
Democrats, newly empowered in the House majority, are reviving an effort they began but abandoned a decade ago to curb the nation’s carbon emissions and ramp up…
Columnists
Michael Barone: Trump’s State of the Union was surprisingly reflective and disciplined
“This year,” President Trump stated in the seventh paragraph of his widely viewed and positively rated State of the Union address, “America will recognize two important anniversaries…
Magazine - Columnists
How Churchill’s love of Jews helped him foresee the Nazi threat
“Why is your chief so violent about the Jews?” Winston Churchill asked a Nazi publicist, who at a Munich hotel in 1932 had offered to arrange a…
Beltway Confidential
How Amy Klobuchar could win
“Amy’s Making a Big Announcement,” posted Sen. Klobuchar, D-Minn., from her Twitter account just hours after the State of the Union. Absent from the presidential tease were…
Columnists
Trump goes big, uses delayed State of the Union to make case on border, much more
When House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., disinvited President Trump from delivering the State of the Union on its originally scheduled date, Jan. 29, the White House and…
Columnists
The state of our neighborhood communities is not strong
As most of Washington was readying for partisan and ideological warfare over walls, abortion, and federal taxes, a handful of scholars and writers in D.C. on Tuesday…