Beltway Confidential
Who weeps for North Carolina’s hurricane victims?
People have lost their homes and family members. Rebuilding will take time and resources. Yet, the crisis is largely out of the news. No, it’s not the…
January 22, 2025
Trump's second chance: He's supposed to be here
Entertainment
Nosferatu faces the darkness
It is hard not to view the latest film by Robert Eggers (The Witch, The Northman) as intentionally correcting the perplexity Timothy Garton Ash writes about in…
Entertainment
The wordless brilliance of Wallace & Gromit
Among all creatures with the capacity to be cartoonified, the canine can express the most while saying the least. That Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, and Porky Pig…
Magazine
This is what democracy looks like: Review of ‘The Reactionary Spirit’ by Zack Beauchamp
A popular New Yorker cartoon published around the time of the first Trump election features an angry-looking man on a plane saying, “These smug pilots have lost…
Education
Ilya Shapiro diagnoses legal education
There were some things I really loved about working for Columbia Law School. I had a fantastic team of colleagues in the Office of Public Affairs who…
Magazine
Generations of allergies
Late in his life, my father developed a severe allergy to shellfish. For a person from Maryland who loved oysters and crabs, this was a genuine hardship.…
Magazine
Hostages to fortune
With the Middle East, nothing is ever quite what it looks like. There are always side deals and cover stories, fake stances and false trails. The hostage…
Defense
Why Republicans rallied around Trump’s ‘unconventional’ defense secretary pick
Democrats were downcast after the four-hour Jan. 14 Senate confirmation hearing for Pete Hegseth, President Donald Trump’s polarizing pick to be the 29th secretary of defense. “He…
Economy
A welfare check: House Republicans have their sights on income-based federal programs
A key House Republican seeking significant spending cuts, House Budget Committee Chairman Jodey Arrington (R-TX), has set his sights on means-tested programs, a line of attack that…
Magazine
Trump Greenland gambit draws varying degrees of GOP interest
There’s a precedent for almost everything controversial in President Donald Trump‘s plans for his second, nonconsecutive term. Past presidents led crackdowns on immigration, raised tariffs, risked trade…