Education
Obituary: Nathan Glazer
Nathan Glazer, who died Jan. 19 at age 95, was for more than a half-century a leading scholar on race and ethnicity, immigration, the challenges of urban…
January 29, 2019
Magazine - Features
Hostile takeover: Democrats’ younger generation is brushing party leaders aside
Washington frequently feels like middle school, with its gossip, cliques, and unwritten rules. And woe to any woman who breaks those rules. Republicans have often chosen the…
Magazine - Life & Arts
A fitting legacy
When Charles Krauthammer died on June 21, 2018, the country lost a true master of his craft. For more than three decades as a columnist for the…
Energy and Environment
Appalachia’s approaching energy boom
MONACA, Pa. — Economic “game changer” is not a phrase often used in Appalachia and rarely a phrase proclaimed in unison by politicians from both parties at…
Magazine - Washington Briefing
Maxine Waters readies for combat
The House Financial Services Committee is poised to become must-watch television, at least by C-SPAN standards. Its new chair is Maxine Waters, one of President Trump’s most…
Beltway Confidential
Letter from the editor: Jan. 29, 2019
Now that the Democrats are the party of the rich and, appropriately, collect the lion’s share of Wall Street’s campaign donations, it’s only natural that they should…
Beltway Confidential
Howling at the blood moon
Hey, did you see that super blood wolf moon on Jan. 20? Was that cool or what? It was so cool it almost made me howl, or…
Energy and Environment
Liberals grow skeptical of carbon tax proposal
Liberals are moving away from carbon taxes as the primary answer to combating climate change, leaving the policy with little support on either side of the political…
Economy
Another thing Americans and Brits have in common is costly government paralysis
For better and for worse, Great Britain and the United States have navigated for centuries what leaders of both countries call a “special relationship,” one that dates…
Magazine - Life & Arts
Don’t Kondo my condo
Americans live in a minimalist age. Just not quite as minimalist as the reigning cultural tastemakers and our machines want us to believe. There is trouble, you…