Beltway Confidential
Whitewash supremacy
A high school in San Francisco has decided to destroy an 83-year-old Depression-era mural of George Washington because of its depictions of racial minorities. This is odd,…
July 16, 2019
Beltway Confidential
NASA promised us the moon, and delivered
Fifty years after Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walked on the moon, too few people appreciate that achievement fully and with the appropriate degree of wonder. For…
Beltway Confidential
Ask the question, and answer it
The almighty fuss over a citizenship question in the census indicates that it should be asked. The administration says it needs the question to administer the Voting…
Beltway Confidential
What just happened in Vegas shouldn’t stay in Vegas
Everyone hates getting parking tickets, but there may be a way to make them less painful. What if, instead of paying a fine, you got to donate…
Columnists
Democrats: Prisoners of the past on the economy
We are all, to some extent, prisoners of the past. Things that have already happened — or that we remember as having happened — constitute the world…
Beltway Confidential
Interview: Yankees legend Mariano Rivera explains why he’s a strong supporter of Israel
New York Yankees legend Mariano Rivera will be inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame on July 21 as the first player to be unanimously selected. But…