Education
School choice continues to gain ground
Yanking your child from public school has never been more popular. It’s too bad this is only an option for those with means. In the past year…
February 2, 2021
Energy and Environment
Biden faces pressures to speed clean energy permitting without undercutting reviews
President Biden faces a tricky challenge as he works to expand renewable energy: speeding up clean energy permitting without sacrificing environmental reviews that give full consideration to…
Business
Every man a day trader
Populist resentment against speculators has always been a touchstone of politics in the United States. Especially in times of heightened inequality, regular folks tend to turn against…
Magazine - Life & Arts
One weird trick
It’s a lonely feeling to find oneself unmoved by a book that’s been borne aloft in the sweaty grasp of universal acclaim. If it’s bad enough, one’s…
Magazine - Business
The repeal of Section 230 has broad ramifications beyond Big Tech
Among former President Donald Trump’s many grievances was a once-obscure law known as Section 230, which some conservatives view as empowering censorship by Facebook and Twitter. Republicans…
Magazine - Obituary
Larry King, 1933-2021
These days, it’s hard to imagine a time when a plurality of the population agreed on anything, especially media consumption. Strange as it sounds to say, for…
Magazine - Your Land
What to expect from this year’s Super Bowl commercials
If it’s not you, someone close to you will say it: “I watch the Super Bowl for the commercials.” Companies know this. That’s part of why they…
Business
Pete Buttigieg walks back comments about gas tax increase
Pete Buttigieg, President Biden’s likely incoming transportation secretary, admitted in his Jan. 21 Senate confirmation hearings that raising the federal excise tax on gasoline was one option…
Beltway Confidential
Doubts grow in freedom’s last redoubt
Free speech as both a principle and an operational element of Western democracy is more threatened today than in living memory. News media, cardinal beneficiaries of the…
Magazine - Life & Arts
WandaVision and the America we’ve lost
WandaVision, the new series from Disney+, works, but maybe not for the reasons its producers imagine. The show stars the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s Wanda Maximoff (Elizabeth Olsen)…