Magazine - Your Land
Exodus 2020
Escape from New York just got real. People have been fleeing coastal cities gradually over the past decade, but the coronavirus pandemic hastened their exit. Bad governance,…
January 12, 2021
Magazine - Washington Briefing
Pardons, executive orders, and legal jeopardy will dominate Trump’s final days
President Trump’s public schedule for the day after his supporters stormed the Capitol was pointedly terse. “President Trump will work from early in the morning until late…
Magazine - Your Land
Word of the Week: ‘Simp’
Twitch is a video game streaming platform with 140 million users, more than the total votes cast in the 2016 election and almost half of the “population”…
Magazine - Life & Arts
Everything is totally normal
A friend of mine who lives at the beach was once rousted out of bed at dawn by the beeping sound of a van in reverse. He…
Magazine - Features
Debacle in Georgia
“The entire fate of the Republican Party for the foreseeable future will be cast in the next 48 hours,” predicted GOP strategist Bradley Blakeman on the eve…
Business
Trump exits, but will his tariffs remain?
One of the most significant shifts in policy under President Trump was the United States’s reembrace of tariffs as economic and geopolitical tools. Trump described himself as…
Magazine - Washington Briefing
The override of Trump’s NDAA veto shows Congress can reign supreme
Members of Congress like to remind people that under the system of checks and balances crafted by our Constitution’s Founding Fathers, the legislative, executive, and judicial branches…
Business
US officials see fewer than 10 agencies compromised in recent attack
Weeks after officials revealed a potentially massive hack of U.S. government and private companies by possibly Russian hackers, there’s a bit of good news: So far, investigators…
Magazine - Washington Briefing
Meet the Senate’s new power players: Centrist Democrats
There’s a new, powerful gang in the Senate. Centrist Democrats, who make up a handful of lawmakers in the Senate, are the new doorkeepers to a sweeping…
Crime
Criminal behavior
New York. Los Angeles. Chicago. Omaha, Nebraska. It doesn’t matter. Ask a law enforcement officer in almost any major city how it’s going, and he’ll tell you…