Magazine - Life & Arts
The phone drinks first
The setting was wrong. All wrong. For starters, it was nighttime in Washington, D.C. It was indoors — which, wrong as it was, was just as well,…
January 21, 2020
Magazine - Your Land
Cross (country) stitch
While Shannon Downey combed through estate sale treasures in early September, she came across a beautiful embroidery project: a map of the United States. It showed the…
Magazine - Your Land
Make momma get a job?
Who knew the aim of socialism was putting more mothers into cubicles? The Democratic debate on Jan. 14 showed a political class that believes mothers should be…
Magazine - Washington Briefing
Rare Senate impeachment trial leaves witness question hanging
The Senate began a rare presidential impeachment trial on Thursday without an agreement on whether to call witnesses whose testimony could be critical to helping lawmakers decide…
Magazine - Your Land
Word of the Week: ‘Talking point’
“Your question is a Republican talking point.” That’s a reply from Bernie Sanders in July, asked by Jake Tapper about whether the poor polling of his costly…
Magazine - Features
Now you have to listen to Tom Steyer
NASHUA, New Hampshire — “I get that it’s ironic. It’s ironic to me, too,” billionaire Tom Steyer insists to a crowd of about 200 gathered in a…
Magazine - Life & Arts
Men should see Little Women
I’ve never read Little Women. Raised as a male, I was given a set of rigidly gendered directives: Never cry; keep a bullfrog under your coonskin cap…
Energy and Environment
China coal additions are key source of emissions, and America is doing almost nothing about it
Curbing China’s coal consumption is in many ways the main challenge when it comes to slowing global climate change, but accomplishing that goal has as much to…
Magazine - Features
The French and German threat to NATO
President Trump’s targeted killing of the world’s master of international terrorism, Iranian Maj. Gen. Qassem Soleimani, highlighted Washington’s improved cooperation and concordance with Middle Eastern allies. But…
Magazine - Features
Cory Booker mortgaged his reputation for a failed presidential bid
On Day Three of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation hearings, Cory Booker seized the political spotlight. With one hand pointed toward the ceiling, the New Jersey…