Magazine
Is failure a byproduct or an aim of Democratic policy?
This letter comes to you from Maine rather than, as normal, from Washington, D.C. Examining the entrails of federal policy is easier in the imperial city, but…
July 13, 2021
Immigration
Kamala in crisis
Vice President Kamala Harris has had a tough go of it in the media lately. Deputized to deal with the crisis at the border, she has become…
Crime
The tattler’s tale
James Ellroy writes like he thinks in ALL CAPS. Occasionally, he writes in ALL CAPS, too. He rages in italics, flings exclamation points like sticks of dynamite.…
Business
Another ransomware attack could escalate US-Russia tensions
A ransomware attack on software vendor Kaseya may have compromised hundreds of companies and raises new questions about relations between the United States and Russia. Security experts…
Magazine - Washington Briefing
Biden faces uncertain politics of the filibuster as his agenda stalls in Congress
President Joe Biden’s tenuous hold on Congress is impeding his ambition to govern like Franklin D. Roosevelt as the Senate’s filibuster stymies the passage of his liberal…
Magazine - Your Land
No time for bros
A decade ago, popular media wrestled with the definition of the “bro.” It was a term of mild derision that had probably originated as shorthand for “frat…
Magazine - Your Land
HENRY can’t save
Many young adults were never taught how to save their money. That’s the only explanation for a recent study that found that 60% of millennials earning more…
Magazine - Your Land
The nuclear family is a luxury good
One ingredient in our current demographic stew, mixed in with the low birth rates and declining marriage rates, is a positive one: More children live in a…
Magazine - Life & Arts
How to seek truth
Late in The Constitution of Knowledge, Jonathan Rauch introduces a “worried professor.” Confronting a proposal to inject politics into his school’s curriculum, top to bottom, our professor…
Healthcare
No end in sight for mask mandates on public transportation
UPDATE: This story was updated to remove a reference to Portland, Oregon’s Metro service, which does not handle public transportation. All across the United States, vaccination rates…