Education
There’s no Twitter like snow Twitter
Why does a member of the Fairfax County School Board have 308,000 Twitter followers, more than most members of Congress? Ryan McElveen is popular because he tweets…
February 26, 2019
Magazine - Your Land
Free Zion
A mere 36 seconds into Feb. 20’s marquee matchup between the University of North Carolina and Duke University, college basketball’s most electric player, Zion Williamson, was forced…
Magazine - Features
Is there karma for Kamala?
Before Sen. Bernie Sanders announced he was entering the race, Sen. Kamala Harris was dubbed the front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2020. And she made…
Magazine - Life & Arts
Calamitous caliphate
We spotted him, my translator and I, when stopping off with our driver to inspect a one-story house in the Aleppo countryside that had narrowly escaped being…
Magazine - Lead Stories
War over war powers
President Trump will face a choice later this week, when Congress sends him its first-ever use of the War Powers Resolution of 1973 to withdraw from a…
Magazine - Features
The truth about democratic socialism
Ilhan Omar, the newest Democratic member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, has had a contentious first month in Washington, stumbling through multiple anti-Semitism controversies. But it…
Magazine - Your Land
Offense archaeology
“That’s what liberalism is, now — the search for baddies doing bad things, like little offense archaeologists, digging deeper and deeper to find out who’s Good and…
Magazine - Washington Briefing
Ready to revive gun control fight
The newly minted House Democratic majority is eager to advance gun control legislation after years of being sidelined in the minority. But they are not starting with…
Magazine - Features
#MeToo and today’s McCarthyism
Which is more scrupulous, the #MeToo movement or McCarthyism? The original McCarthyism, I mean — that of the blacklist and the Hollywood Ten, of which the junior…
Magazine - Your Land
You can’t say that on the radio
“I like morning.” If you’re listening to the radio, and Cardi B’s “Money” comes on, you might hear her chirp this pleasant ode to sunup. Unfortunately, it’s…