Magazine - Your Land
The dark web
Staring at the screen of a computer, smartphone, or tablet connected to the internet — you may be doing it right now — is the main activity…
January 14, 2020
Magazine - Life & Arts
Messiah whiffs on religion
It may surprise many Christians to learn that Jesus is one of the most revered people in Islam. In fact, Jesus is mentioned 25 times in the…
Education
Girls just want to … do anything besides code
Is there a gender gap in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and math? Absolutely. But when researchers get past the ideological ax-grinding and look at the…
Magazine - Life & Arts
Hipsterism for the carriage trade
The museum as we know it began with the 16th-century cabinet of marvels, or wunderkammer. Such “cabinets” were the joy of eccentric, rapaciously curious collectors of specimens…
Magazine - Washington Briefing
Successful Soleimani strike cements Pompeo’s status as de facto secretary of defense
In the end, there was a consensus. For months, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo had been advocating for an audacious counterterrorism strike that two previous administrations had…
Energy and Environment
Trump’s overhaul of environmental permitting could help clean energy build-out
The Trump administration’s new effort to speed permitting reviews for infrastructure could allow for an easier build-out of massive clean energy projects envisioned by Democrats to decarbonize…
Magazine - Life & Arts
The joy of being angry
The Buddha taught us that life is filled with suffering, and if you think that’s a pretentious way to begin a paragraph, wait until you read the…
Economy
Key phase two goal of US-China trade talks is explaining what’s in phase one
When President Trump travels to China later this year to begin phase two of trade talks with Beijing, there’s one thing that a lot of people are…
Magazine - Features
Changing the screen-time debate
I recently attended a standing-room-only parents’ night at a junior high school featuring a renowned and polished speaker. He deftly captivated the packed auditorium with a fear-based,…
Healthcare
Elizabeth Wurtzel, 1967-2020; Heather Ashton, 1929-2020
They were two women who defined, and in some cases became emblematic of, the treatment of mental illness, though opposite in every way. One was a career…