Magazine - Life & Arts
When murder mystery was new
One morning, Paul Larkins is rudely awakened in his London home by frantic knocking and anguished shouting. A murder is announced: Maria, a 19-year-old dancer from a…
January 9, 2024
Beltway Confidential
Free Mickey
Despite its best efforts, Disney has lost the rights to Mickey Mouse — vintage Mickey, that is. The mouse’s first iteration, which appeared in the 1928 short…
Magazine - Columnists
There is no Palestinian state
As the new year is a time of new beginnings, here’s an old joke about the end of the world. A giant meteorite is headed toward Earth…
Entertainment
The Godzilla we deserve
Like all the best movies, Godzilla Minus One contains multitudes. A moving domestic melodrama, it is also a meditation on collective responsibility and individual guilt. A persuasive…
Magazine - Life & Arts
Veteran to veteran with Ron DeSantis
Last week, I spoke to Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) about something a little different from what many journalists in America have discussed with him: the strange combination…
Foreign Policy
How a Cuban spy operated inside US intelligence and how she was caught
For nearly two decades, one of the world’s most successful spies hid in plain sight. Ana Montes, a “superstar” employee for the Defense Intelligence Agency, was a…
Immigration
There’s no such thing as free parking in Biden’s America
More than two dozen buses dropped hundreds of immigrants off in the parking lot of the Sam’s Club near Denver’s Central Park one December morning, and the…
Entertainment
Tom Wilkinson, 1948-2023
Just before the tough, conflict-filled year that was 2023 was set to expire, it inflicted on us one final misfortune before taking its leave from the stage…
Magazine - Your Land
Pay no mind to the diesel behind your EV charging station
In order to save the planet, you must switch to driving an electric car. And in order to drive your electric car, you must rely on diesel.…
Economy
Minnesota’s nice economy
Minnesota has a better-than-average unemployment rate and per capita GDP. It also has a top-tier employment-to-population ratio and the third-lowest rate of poverty. The state’s economic numbers…