Magazine - Your Land
Word of the Week: ‘Milk’
When we say, “The Milky Way galaxy,” we are being redundant. The word “galaxy” itself means “milky way.” It comes via French and Latin from a modified…
February 4, 2020
Magazine - Washington Briefing
Senate primary fight in Georgia could foil GOP’s effort to win back suburbs
The battle to keep the Senate majority in Republican hands faces complications from a primary fight in Georgia between newly appointed Sen. Kelly Loeffler and a favorite…
Magazine - Features
Blacklist Valley: How Big Tech reshapes politics by censoring conservative ideas
For better or worse, social media is the new public square. Of adults, 68% use Facebook, 73% use YouTube, and a quarter use Twitter. The numbers are…
Magazine - Your Land
It’s almost time to repeat the past
It’s a new American tradition. January, for followers of music and literature, marked when some classics written a lifetime ago entered the public domain. A 1976 copyright…
Magazine - Washington Briefing
People outside the Beltway are not transfixed by impeachment
Travel out of Washington to find out what everyday people with everyday jobs and practical problems, not the people in TV studios, are saying about impeachment, and…
Magazine - Your Land
I’ve got a feeling somebody’s watching me
The “King of Paranoia Rock” was on to something. When Rockwell sang Somebody’s Watching Me in 1984, the song became a smash hit, though not everyone could…
Energy and Environment
This Republican Indiana mayor is redesigning his city to curb climate change
James Brainard, one of the longest-serving mayors in Indiana, is used to being one of the only Republicans in the room talking about climate change. Years before…
Magazine - Your Land
A Winter Wonderland for whom?
Fifteen thousand gallons of water, 20 million pounds of ice, and one destroyed basement: Welcome to New Hampshire’s Ice Castles, an annual attraction complete with slides, tunnels,…
Business
Don’t regulate the rail industry
President Trump rightly touts the economy-wide savings from his deregulation initiatives. But one federal agency didn’t get the memo. Some members of the Surface Transportation Board, which…
Magazine - Your Land
Generation Z’s melancholic pop queen
How does an 18-year-old with green hair sweep the awards on music’s biggest night? Last Sunday night, breakout pop star Billie Eilish took home four Grammy Awards:…