Business
Scrambled pricing: Why eggs and other foods are so expensive
A dozen eggs or four sticks of butter at $8, milk at over $4 a gallon, groceries at $40 or more a bag, restaurant prices way up:…
February 7, 2023
Beltway Confidential
American aid to Ukraine is in a war spiral
Opinion American aid to Ukraine is in a war spiral By Dominic Green February 03, 2023 05:50 AM Twitter LinkedIn Facebook Email Print Opinion American aid to…
Magazine - Life & Arts
The Son never rises
Florian Zeller’s latest picture, The Son, chronicles the descent of a depressed teenager named Nicholas into suicide, and by the end, you may wish to join him.…
Magazine - Washington Briefing
The Schiff-Swalwell saga: Is McCarthy being politic, or playing politics?
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) insists his rejection of California Democrats Adam Schiff and Eric Swalwell to be members of the Intelligence Committee is all about protecting…
Infrastructure
Monumental blunders
I found myself the other day just off the National Mall marveling at the monumental blunders all around me. I was walking along southwest Independence Avenue, between…
Beltway Confidential
Vindication edition
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Magazine - Washington Briefing
Lawmakers dissatisfied at Supreme Court leak probe running dry
The Supreme Court’s failure to identify the culprit behind last year’s leaked draft opinion signaling the overturning of Roe v. Wade dissatisfied both Republicans and Democrats on…
Education
Orban, conservatives, and the education power struggle
In October, protesters linked hands from the Elizabeth Bridge to Keleti train station, a mile-and-a-half human chain that stretched through the heart of downtown Budapest. Bus passengers…
Magazine - Life & Arts
HBO’s The Last of Us is living on borrowed time
“If a bad version of The Last of Us comes out,” game developer Neil Druckmann told the New Yorker earlier this year, “it will crush me.” Relax,…
Magazine - Life & Arts
Italo Calvino at 100
At a party in London recently, an Italian man asked me what I was working on. To my reply that I was writing a review of Italo…