Magazine - Life & Arts
Authentic Hollywood grime
The news is filled with horror stories about summer travel — canceled flights, missed connections, people putting their bare feet on airplane armrests — but that hasn’t…
July 12, 2022
Business
Airlines are grappling with worldwide pilot shortage
Many of America’s airlines are in a world of hurt due to a pilot shortage, and they aren’t the only ones. On July 5, Scandinavian Airlines, which…
Magazine - Life & Arts
More hell in Helmand Province
In my last column, I told you about Frank Wallman, a Marine who served in Afghanistan in 2009. His unit established an American presence deep in southern…
Beltway Confidential
America wants to be Top Gun again
I’m not much of a moviegoer, still less a devotee of Hollywood blockbusters. But I spent an enjoyable couple of hours at a movie theater this week…
Magazine - Life & Arts
Jon Mooallem’s essays are like nutritious candy
The magazine world isn’t what it used to be. If you read a killer piece from the Atlantic or Harper’s or the New Yorker, you’re more likely…
Crime
The dazzling Landscapers
The best film of 2021 was one few people even heard of: The Electrical Life of Louis Wain, directed by the Brit Will Sharpe. A fantastical biopic,…
Energy and Environment
Supreme Court EPA decision upends legislative priorities for Democrats
The Supreme Court dealt a blow to the executive branch’s ability to regulate carbon emissions, effectively insisting that Congress take back its jurisdiction over environmental regulations and…
Business
Pandemic’s reshaping of economy complicates recession predictions
WASHINGTON — As people pay more than ever for everything from bacon to gasoline and the Federal Reserve hikes interest rates in response, some economists say a…
Beltway Confidential
Messing and Klain
The White House is in crisis. It must be true: Even CNN is saying it. President Joe Biden will be furious when he hears — if anyone…
Economy
Biden vacillates between braggart and bystander
President Joe Biden had a simple message for voters in Cleveland when he went to defend a provision of the first big spending bill he signed into…