Editorials
Take the age of presidential candidates a lot more seriously
When Democrats take the debate stage on Tuesday night, the top two candidates for the party’s nomination will be in their late 70s. Joe Biden and Sen.…
January 14, 2020
Foreign Policy
Soleimani’s death fits Trump’s desire for orderly withdrawal from the Middle East
There are withdrawals, and then, there are withdrawals. You can flee, desperate and defeated, as from Saigon in 1975, or you can back slowly out of the…
Editorials
Republican Senate should vote on any new Supreme Court nomination this year
Now that a presidential election year has begun, we can expect that if any new Supreme Court vacancy were to arise, Democrats would cite the “Merrick Garland…
Columnists
Dollar General is a part of Americana worth saving and celebrating
TARRS, Pennsylvania — Five years ago, the plot of land where the Dollar General store sits on Glades Pike was just that: a plot of land of…
Magazine - Washington Briefing
Debate over access to encryption isn’t going away
Expect the U.S. Department of Justice and officials from allied countries to push harder for large technology companies to give them access to customers’ encrypted communications, and…
Magazine - Life & Arts
Literature’s benevolent taskmaster
During his long career reviewing books for the Guardian, the New Republic, the London Review of Books, and the New Yorker, James Wood has established himself as…
Magazine - Life & Arts
A history of anxiety
Norman Lebrecht’s new book, Genius & Anxiety: How Jews Changed the World, 1847-1947, is both humbler and more ambitious than its title suggests. A reader judging the…
Magazine
Letter from the editor: Tit for tat? Really?
Two of our moment’s three biggest stories, Iran and the Democratic presidential primary — the third is impeachment — have come together naturally, if awkwardly, several times in…
Magazine - Your Land
Word of the Week: Bingeing
Collins Dictionary named “climate strike” its 2019 word of the year. Runners-up included “rewilding” (to return something to a more natural state) and “bopo” (a shortened version…
Magazine - Life & Arts
The resurrection of Kenny G
While standing in line at the grocery store the other day, I heard The Cure blasting through an overhead speaker. For those of us a certain age,…