Magazine - Life & Arts
Tie fighter
How astonishing it is that the tie survives. But for how much longer? In the days after World War II, a man was more likely to go…
January 22, 2019
Magazine - Your Land
Baba O’Rourke’s teenage wasteland
National Review editor Rich Lowry asked recently, “Is Beto Doing OK?” It’s a fair question. Beto is Robert O’Rourke, the Texan and former congressman who ran unsuccessfully…
Healthcare
What 2020 Democrats can learn from Trump’s border wall quagmire
President Trump is in a quagmire over border wall funding. He has no leverage that he can use to convince Congress to give him what he wants,…
Magazine - Columnists
Key Justice Department officials, including Mueller deputy, knew about dossier
Testimony last year before a House task force investigating the Trump-Russia affair confirmed that top Justice Department officials knew about the Trump dossier earlier than first thought,…
Magazine - Columnists
If you’re gay, you should choose life
This Friday, thousands of people will converge on the nation’s capital to stand up for the unborn and unabashedly declare their support for pro-life principles at the…
Beltway Confidential
Kirsten Gillibrand says her ‘values are never for sale.’ Here are the receipts
She announced she was running for president from a glittering Manhattan television studio and to plenty of fanfare. She stood in a nondescript upstate parking lot the…
Magazine - Columnists
‘The Good Place,’ Marie Kondo, Gillette razors, and the joy of simplicity
On NBC’s sneaky-smart sitcom “The Good Place,” Eleanor Shellstrop finds herself in the afterlife. Having spent her life as a selfish person, she is accidentally sent to…
Columnists
Washington builds plenty of walls. And then charges you to pass through the gate
Somewhere in the third week of the government shutdown, the Associated Press figured out how to make some average readers far distant from the Beltway get worked…
Magazine - Columnists
With its vote on paying federal workers, Congress just ducked accountability
Former White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel once said, “You never want a serious crisis to go to waste. And what I mean by that is…