Foreign Policy
Trump campaign sees political win on Iran strike
The Trump campaign lost no time in touting the president’s decision to kill Iran’s most senior and most feared military leader. “Thanks to the swift actions of…
January 14, 2020
Magazine - Life & Arts
Terrence Malick’s A Hidden Life and the art of being free
Terrence Malick’s latest film, the World War II drama A Hidden Life, is not about President Trump, Viktor Orban, the Proud Boys, Antifa, Angela Merkel’s immigration policy,…
Magazine - Your Land
Someone on the internet does something good for once
Proverbs 25:21-22 reads: “If your enemies are hungry, give them food to eat. If they are thirsty, give them water to drink. You will heap burning coals…
Magazine - Columnists
The unconventional president
Donald Trump is not the first president to have had the opportunity to take out Maj. Gen. Qassem Soleimani, Iran’s terrorist mastermind. But past presidents thought killing…
Business
Why does Washington demonize drug companies?
Over the holidays, I read Elton John’s biography, Me. He writes about his friendship with Freddie Mercury, the ultratalented lead singer of the rock group Queen. Mercury…
Magazine - Life & Arts
A blimp of brick and mortar
“To tell you the truth,” the clerk told me, “we don’t really want anyone in the store.” I was at one of the new “Roll by Goodyear”…
Magazine - Features
Adrift in space
When Barbara Barrett became 25th secretary of the U.S. Air Force in October, she announced in a can-do tweet that she was ready to “get to work.”…
Magazine - Features
Where the US-Iran shadow war goes from here
The man once celebrated in Tehran as “the living martyr,” Maj. Gen. Qassem Soleimani, is now just a martyr in the traditional sense. Felled by a U.S.…
Economy
Darkness on the edge of town
“Economic anxiety!” is a favorite punchline among a particular segment of the political commentariat. Center-left writers employed by the likes of Vox and the Washington Post have…
Healthcare
New U-Haul anti-smoking policy could keep working-class people out of a job
A new U-Haul hiring policy disqualifies applicants who use nicotine products, which public health experts call discrimination against working-class men and women. The moving company announced last…