Foreign Policy
Watching Venezuela disintegrate around me
CARACAS — There is nothing that can really prepare you for the human suffering on display here in Venezuela or the degree to which this country is…
February 5, 2019
Infrastructure
Travel industry still worried about a shutdown
Transportation and travel groups won a short-term victory after the partial government shutdown concluded in January, but the industry is still moving to secure a long-term funding…
Magazine - Life & Arts
Cruelty in the name of ‘child welfare’
In 2016, about one out of every 10 children in the country were reported as suspected victims of abuse or neglect. After an investigation, fewer than a…
Foreign Policy
New Congress starts strong on cyber
The 116th Congress came out of the gate quickly on cybersecurity issues, passing two cyber-related bills in the last month. One creates a “bug bounty” program at…
Beltway Confidential
America’s ‘Dark Knight’
America’s greatest living vice president, Dick Cheney, celebrated his 78th birthday on Jan. 30, roughly one week after “Vice,” the new biopic about his life and career,…
Magazine - Life & Arts
Flying hands and sticks
There’s a Bakersfield school of country-rock guitar playing. In the 1950s, there was a San Francisco school of Dixieland jazz. There’s a Chicago school of classical trombone…
Magazine - Life & Arts
Fair weather, fowl hunting
I was pretty psyched when I looked up the weather for Greeley, Colo., near where I was headed for a goose-and-pheasant hunt, and saw the best prediction…
Business
Retailers look to promote ‘experiences’ to survive the industry’s apocalypse
There’s a reason the bankruptcy of retail icons like Sears and Toys’R’Us resonates with U.S. consumers in a way that the demise of vinyl records, cassette tapes,…
Economy
EU trade talks get tripped up before they start
President Trump’s upcoming trade talks with the European Union have hit an apparent impasse before they have even been scheduled. Trump administration officials maintain that the talks…
Immigration
The ‘bad ass’ keeping her caucus unified
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., isn’t a member of the bipartisan team of 17 lawmakers appointed to negotiate a critical border security deal, but she is poised…