Beltway Confidential
On a snowy evening, promises to keep
As Arctic cold swept over swaths of the country, there was a dictum to keep in mind besides “stay inside.” Go look at the snow. This is…
February 5, 2019
Magazine - Features
Joe Biden embraced segregation in 1975, claiming it was a matter of ‘black pride’
Joe Biden, weighing a 2020 White House bid, once advocated continued school segregation in the United States, arguing that it benefited minorities and that integration would prevent…
Magazine - Columnists
Democrats embrace Trump’s ‘code red’ politics
Ever since Donald Trump announced he was running for president in 2015, American politics has seemed to resemble the dream sequence in Christopher Nolan’s “Inception,” in which…
Columnists
Michael Barone: A time for humility among the Davos elite
Turnout at Davos was lousy this year. President Trump, preoccupied with the government shutdown, was a no-show at last week’s World Economic Forum there. So were British…
Magazine - Columnists
The kids today are high on socialism, but they haven’t ruled out capitalism
Generation Z is here, and they are just as left-leaning as the millennials who came before them. But new data suggests their openness to socialism and government…
Columnists
‘Kamala the Cop’ is the perfect prosecutor for a bloodthirsty base
“She is a dead-on prosecutor,” Kamala Harris’s political mentor Willie Brown wrote about Kamala Harris in her first months in the Senate, “and when she goes into…
Columnists
Byron York: In border talks, a new fight for barrier deniers
A House-Senate conference committee is beginning work on a package of border security policies that, it is hoped, can win the support of both Democrats and Republicans.…
Magazine - Personal Finance
Getting out of debt — and staying there
What Is debt consolidation? If you’re struggling with credit card debt, you’re certainly not alone. According to credit reporting bureau Experian, the average American has a credit…