Magazine - Columnists
Trump’s loss is the GOP’s gain
Since losing his bid for reelection, President Trump has been impeached, denied his best means of communication with the country, and widely denounced as a political menace.…
January 19, 2021
Magazine - Life & Arts
OK, boomers
The story of America over the last half-century is the story of the baby boomers. Born between 1946 and 1964, the boomers were, for more than 50…
Magazine - Features
Biden and Big Tech’s ‘reverse revolvers’
After helping to vet personnel picks for thousands of political and staff positions, including for roles at the Federal Trade Commission, Federal Communications Commission, and leading the…
Magazine - Life & Arts
Trading Places and the joys of commercialized Christmas
Among all of the traditions suspended, curtailed, or canceled this past Christmas season, there was at least one custom that proved immune to the coronavirus: binge-watching Christmas…
Magazine - Features
The last days of the Trump presidency
The images are surreal. Truckloads of National Guard troops pouring into the nation’s capital in the days before President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration. As the perimeter of security…
Magazine - Washington Briefing
Activist archives Parler posts after Capitol riot
A researcher and activist led an effort to archive more than 99% of content posted on Parler, including the location data of users who stormed the Capitol…
Magazine - Your Land
Plague of health
The “new normal” includes a lot less travel, a lot fewer parties, and a lot less vomit. An ironic silver lining of our disastrous plague is that…
Business
Infrastructure week delayed again
“Infrastructure Week” would have been a week blocked out in Congress to debate and pass a bipartisan bill to fund more roads, bridges, and the like during…
Magazine - Life & Arts
The real thing
On page 625 of William Gaddis’s The Recognitions (1955), we find “undisciplined lights … instructed by the tireless precision of the traffic lights turning green to red,…
Magazine - Washington Briefing
What is the endgame for Trump?
President Trump did something new this week, when, on Wednesday, he was impeached for an unprecedented second time, becoming the most impeached president in history. On Wikipedia,…