Economy
Dueling tariff bills
Prominent senators looking to restrict President Trump’s ability to enact tariffs are divided over which bipartisan legislation to support. Sens. Pat Toomey, R-Pa., and Mark Warner, D-Va.,…
February 19, 2019
Magazine - Life & Arts
Birthday butchering
I’ve given my wife, Michele, so many ways to mock me that I’ve lost count. The latest came this month on my 62nd birthday. I regularly get…
Beltway Confidential
Letter from the editor: Feb. 19, 2019
In the catalog of political folly, one of the most dangerous notions among conservatives is that some left-wing ideas are so nuts they’ll never happen. Just such…
Beltway Confidential
Evangelicals claim Justin Bieber, but he won’t claim them
Evangelicals have united around a strange champion: Justin Bieber. The singer’s comments about abstaining from sex before marriage in a recent interview have prompted portions of American…
Magazine - Life & Arts
Straighten up and fire right
Fifteen years ago this winter, I was activated for the war in Afghanistan. I think about my time there every single day, and how it was typified…
Magazine - Features
Howard Schultz and independent folly
Howard Schultz had every reason to be surprised when his recent announcement that he might run for president in 2020 was met with fury by fellow liberals.…
Columnists
Eight days in May: New revelations about intrigue to remove Trump
There are new revelations about what took place in Washington during the extraordinary period from May 9, 2017, when President Trump fired FBI Director James Comey, to…
Healthcare
California is where liberal dreams go to die
In his 1939 novel on American disillusionment, “The Day of the Locust,” Nathanael West chronicled people who flocked to Hollywood with high hopes, only to face a…
Columnists
‘Mean Girls’ meets the ‘MAGA’ era
Esquire Magazine found itself under fire this week for putting not a controversial celebrity or model, but a teenaged white male on its cover. Esquire assured readers…
Columnists
Why are leading Democratic presidential candidates endorsing ‘the green dream or whatever they call it?’
There’s an old joke about an egotistical politician whose disgruntled speechwriter, just before quitting, prepares a draft that promises the moon, and specifics for how to pay…