Magazine - Life & Arts
Life’s little provable victories
I was supposed to meet some people for lunch yesterday, and I stood them both up. I didn’t text or email or contact them in any way.…
July 19, 2022
Beltway Confidential
Only blue states can prevent homeless fires
In California, fires have always been a hot-button issue. But bad forest management has taken a backseat to bad city management, as California’s blazes have moved from…
Magazine - Life & Arts
The Great Man Theory reviewed
In his well-received third novel, 2016’s Loner, Teddy Wayne put readers inside the mind of an awkward male college student who develops a disturbing obsession with a…
Beltway Confidential
Word of the Week: ‘Hispandering’
On July 11, first lady Jill Biden was at the 2022 UnidosUS Annual Conference in San Antonio, where she spoke at its “Latinx IncluXion Luncheon.” There, she…
Magazine - Life & Arts
Spiderhead needs squashing
Spare a thought for America’s pharmacologists. Having seen one of their own unleash an inadvertent monkey apocalypse in 2011’s Rise of the Planet of the Apes, the…
Magazine - Life & Arts
A grizzled Jeff Bridges delivers spy thrills in The Old Man
The old man is plagued by nightmares and haunted by disturbing flashbacks of a woman in distress. He wakes up at all hours of the night. His…
Business
Musk’s dalliance with Twitter takes shareholders on wild ride
Elon Musk moves markets. He is the wealthiest person in the world, lead’s the planet’s largest electric vehicle producer, and aspires to send mankind to Mars. So,…
Beltway Confidential
Dear daughter, happy ‘breach of contract’ day!
Endless options for customization are one happy byproduct of 21st-century consumer culture. Streaming services, sushi bowls, blankets featuring family photos — you name it, you can customize…
Business
Up in the air
The drawn-out bidding war between JetBlue Airways and Frontier Airlines over Spirit Airlines has taken another turn. JetBlue came in with what it characterized as its “last,…
Magazine - Washington Briefing
John Spencer is a world-renowned expert on urban combat. Here’s how he thinks the war in Ukraine is going
In his 25 years in the Army, John Spencer rose from the rank of private to major, did two combat tours in Iraq, and served as an…