Columnists
A genocide, by any other name
How are we to describe the abominations being carried out in Xinjiang by the Chinese Communist Party? What word is apt for the concentration camps, the mass…
January 26, 2021
Education
The relationship between unity and geography is complicated
YOUNGSTOWN — There is a little township in Columbiana County along the back roads that connect Pittsburgh and this eastern Ohio city. It is named Unity, and…
Business
Operation Warp Speed’s success
On April 27, 2020, in the throes of coronavirus-induced shutdowns across the globe, the Wall Street Journal ran a little-remarked piece titled “The Secret Group of Scientists…
Magazine - Washington Briefing
Trump leaves behind a coterie of frustrated former national security advisers
Retired Marine Corps Gen. John Kelly, who served as President Donald Trump’s chief of staff and homeland security chief, was one of hundreds of administration officials invited…
Business
Big-business shift on carbon pricing unlikely to move the needle on legislation
The new shift by big business to consider supporting carbon-pricing policies will create more momentum to combat climate change, but it is unlikely to shake Republicans from…
Energy
Biden moves quickly to erase traces of Trump
President Biden was only in office for a few hours before he struck down one of former President Donald Trump’s most controversial policies: the travel ban affecting…
Magazine - Your Land
Masking our faces
Health experts generally agree that face masks slow the spread of the coronavirus. But there’s reason to worry about the negative effects — particularly among children. Reading…
Magazine - Life & Arts
Don’t overthink it: Brooklyn’s Big Three will be great
Hating on NBA superteams has become such a popular tradition in recent years that it should probably come with a slice of apple pie and some medical…
Magazine - Your Land
Word of the Week: ‘Rebuild’
The verbiage of President Biden’s inauguration was self-consciously Lincolnesque. Emphasis on the self-conscious. He used the phrase “uncivil war,” a bit of wordplay that didn’t land as…
Magazine - Life & Arts
Satire in the city
Sex and the City gets misread all the time. The misreadings come from all directions. On the one hand, you have the fans. For some, Sex and…