Magazine - Columnists
Liz Cheney’s toughness
When House Republicans declined to oust Liz Cheney of Wyoming as their third-ranking leader, it didn’t get top billing in the media. That went to Marjorie Taylor…
February 9, 2021
Business
US lawmakers will push for new privacy regulations
A significant privacy bill will be on Congress’s agenda during the next two years, with privacy-focused Democrats holding thin majorities in both the House and the Senate.…
Healthcare
Will the CDC transportation mask mandates matter?
On Feb. 1, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a mask mandate for public transportation in the United States. The federal agency’s order followed the…
Magazine - Life & Arts
Empathy for the dumb
We live in a golden age of stupidity, and it is a source of endless amusement for those capable of surmounting or ignoring the horror it initially…
Magazine - Features
America’s lost voice
Michael Pack has the distinction of being the very first person fired by the Biden administration. On Inauguration Day, the new president fired Pack before taking action…
Foreign Policy
Nobel ‘mostly peaceful’ Prize
Blessed are the peacemakers. But cursed are those of us who try to stomach what the Nobel Peace Prize process has become. Just take a look at…
Business
The worst budget in American history
Is there even one single half-sane Democrat that will stand up and denounce the fiscal atrocity of President Biden’s $1.9 trillion spending bill? Is there are not…
Beltway Confidential
The end of the affair
America’s worst governor probably never thought he would miss America’s most obnoxious president. But that is the situation that New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo likely finds himself…
Magazine - Life & Arts
Everyone’s got a tell
A talent agent I know has two ways to say the word “because.” She’s from New York, and one of the ways she pronounces it is with…
Beltway Confidential
Remember when spending and debt mattered?
I first became a Wall Street correspondent 34 years ago, after Black Monday, Oct. 19, 1987. An element in that day’s panic was an undertow of concern…