Magazine - Your Land
Human sacrifices
There’s no such thing as a truly secular politics. It’s one of my iron rules, and it has proved essential to understanding the supposedly secularist political currents,…
January 29, 2019
Magazine - Your Land
‘Rightness-smuggling,’ explained
Have you watched Vox’s Netflix show “Explained”? No? Neither have I. The title of the show, a reference to the classic Vox headline style, “[Subject of Article],…
Magazine - Business
PG&E plows ahead with bankruptcy despite shareholder pushback
PG&E, the power company threatened by liabilities in California’s deadly wildfires, negotiated $5.5 billion in bank loans to carry it through a bankruptcy restructuring even as a…
Business
High CEO pay is perfectly justifiable — here’s why
“Top CEOs in America now earn, on average, over 300 times average pay. In 1965 it was 20 times. And folks wonder why there are populist uprisings…
Magazine - Features
The unstoppable envoy
Richard Grenell has made a career of confounding expectations. That hasn’t changed since becoming U.S. ambassador to Germany last year. On his first day of work, he…
Magazine - Life & Arts
Two men in a boat
Keeping friendships fresh is one of the more enjoyable things in life, but, let’s face it, time — or lack of it — has a habit of…
Crime
Drafting error stalls inmate release under Trump plan
Thousands of prisoners expecting to go home under the First Step Act are stuck behind bars indefinitely due to an apparent drafting error, frustrating families and leaving…
Magazine - Life & Arts
Honorable service on a nameless ship
Every member of the Gentleman’s Coffee Club is a veteran, but although military topics come up from time to time, that is hardly all that’s discussed. There…
Magazine - Washington Briefing
Senate may move to speed up judicial confirmations
Senate Republicans, frustrated with delay tactics by Democrats, may soon vote unilaterally to change the chamber rules in order to speed through President Trump’s judicial nominations. Republican…
Beltway Confidential
Tony Romo, MVP
Athletes who make the jump to the broadcast booth usually have a period of adjustment. Former Dallas Cowboys tight end Jason Witten famously struggled as color commentator…