Magazine - Life & Arts
Roll Over, Soldier
Staff Sgt. Everett Patterson was an infantryman with the Minnesota Army National Guard and my squad leader in Afghanistan. He was a good soldier and a great…
July 23, 2019
Magazine - Life & Arts
Can It
There’s a new* trend for premixed cocktails in cans or bottles. The word “new” gets an asterisk because there have been trends for premixed cocktails every so…
Magazine - Washington Briefing
Can Turkey be trusted with U.S. nukes?
The decision by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan to choose Russia’s S-400 air defense system over America’s best weapons, including the vaunted Patriot missile and the F-35,…
Beltway Confidential
Alien Nation
If more than a million people stormed Area 51, would they be able to find aliens? When curiosity meets the internet, people can always try. At the…
Magazine - Life & Arts
Have You Dug Out a Ford Lately?
I could see it off in the distant haze, a burly and impressive pickup truck ripping through the deep sand at Assateague Island National Seashore just a…
Economy
Battle for union members goes to the states
The Supreme Court’s 2018 Janus v. AFSCME ruling, expected to be a major blow to public sector unions, has set off a battle at the state level…
Beltway Confidential
Trigger warning: Mixed messages ahead
Despite college administrators’ best efforts, most of them are failing to prepare students for the real world. Part of that, though, is the students’ fault. According to…
Energy and Environment
Coal-reliant counties unprepared for fiscal collapse
Coal-producing counties across the U.S. are failing to account for the harm inflicted on their finances by the ongoing decline of the fuel. That decline, prompted mostly…
Magazine - Business
California quakes drive emergency supply sales
Nothing prompts people to prepare for a natural disaster like a brush with one, a truism reinforced when a pair of earthquakes rattled southern California this month.…
Magazine - Obituary
John Paul Stevens, 1920-2019
It’s difficult to say whether the life of Justice John Paul Stevens, who died last week in his Florida retirement at age 99, was important in the…