Entertainment
Peter Yarrow, 1938-2025
“You like Peter, Paul and Mary?” Jack Byrnes (played by Robert De Niro) asks Greg Focker (Ben Stiller) in Meet the Parents, as “Puff the Magic Dragon”…
January 15, 2025
Interview with Senate Majority Leader John Thune, also in the magazine Trump's FL Cabinet, CA wildfires, RFK Jr. vs Big Food, and China & Trump 2.0.
Infrastructure
California’s high-speed fail
It was supposed to be the “Grand Central Station of the West.” And in 2010, every big-name Democrat in northern California was at the groundbreaking of the…
Beltway Confidential
In its 50th year, the National Italian American Foundation to sharpen perceptions
“What does one think of when reading the words Italian American?” I asked a friend. Was she going to say tomato sauce (gravy) or delicious food? How…
Magazine - Your Land
Work-from-swamp
More than 6 million people live in the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area, but only about 700,000 live in the actual District of Columbia. The rest live in…
Magazine
The ‘70s against type
Peter Hujar’s place in American photography was summed up aptly, and not a little harshly, deep within the biography of another photographer. Hujar’s career, Patricia Morrisroe wrote…
Magazine
The back blast area is clear
The new year is off like a rocket. 2025 has dawned with more optimism than we’ve known for years. Inhaling that hopeful air, I asked my Army…
Magazine
What makes LA: Fire can’t stop Hollywood
Los Angeles is burning again. Some combination of dry hillside, wind, and an as-yet unidentified spark has set the neighborhood of Pacific Palisades on fire. This happens…
Magazine
Murdo’s new digs: Thune’s bison sidekick moves up
Sen. John Thune (R-SD) has added a touch of South Dakota to his new Senate office, hanging a bison head named Murdo in the front room of…
Columnists
Joe Biden’s enduring deceptions
JOE BIDEN’S ENDURING DECEPTIONS. As far as the press are concerned, Joe Biden has been the least accessible president in memory. There’s a reason for that. It’s been…
Columnists
Facebook embraces free speech: The masses win, the experts lose
The times, they are a-changing. The balance of power in the perhaps eternal battle between the experts and the masses has been shifting starkly, even wildly, with…