Crime
Are snowballs criminal?
At a press conference in early December, the local deputy police chief of Wausau, Wisconsin, picked up a snowball and hurled it at the city’s mayor on…
January 7, 2020
Magazine - Life & Arts
Should America abolish the two-party system?
Virtually nobody in America is happy with the politics of the present age. Though we disagree about pretty much everything, we can all agree on that. It…
Magazine
Welcome to 2020
Several new features launch in the Washington Examiner magazine this week. We’re delighted with them and hope you will be, too. The biggest change is to the…
Foreign Policy
Trump is the last word on military justice
President Trump’s order late last year shielding three U.S. service members from further punishment from the military justice system has produced a lot of hand-wringing, both inside…
Magazine - Life & Arts
Hoping for the worst for my old neighbors. Nothing personal
I sold my house in Venice Beach, Los Angeles, six months ago, but every now and then, I check into the neighborhood Facebook group to make sure…
Magazine - Washington Briefing
Locking up the ‘internet of things’
A wide range of “internet of things” connected devices are now required to include “reasonable” and “appropriate” cybersecurity measures under a California law that went into effect…
Magazine - Life & Arts
Robert Musil, the forgotten modernist
Robert Musil is the great also-ran, the Pete Best of modernism, forever overshadowed by his contemporaries Marcel Proust and James Joyce. He is, along with Eugene Ionesco…
Magazine - Life & Arts
Freedom, up in smoke
As a tribute to the spirit of Prohibition, and in its never-ending quest for more power over our lives, the federal government has pushed the minimum age…
Magazine - Life & Arts
Name Games
My middle child once had a pleasantly semi-rare name, Greta, a variation on my grandmother’s name, Gretchen. No more. It isn’t that my daughter has changed her…
Magazine
Then & Now: Articles of impeachment
Last month, the House of Representatives adopted articles of impeachment against President Trump. The first article charges him with abuse of power and the second with obstructing…