Magazine - Columnists
It’s not about the man
America’s culture wars are crossing the Atlantic. The polarization, the readiness to see rivals as enemies rather than opponents, the elevation of the leader over the party…
July 23, 2019
Magazine - Features
How the Supreme Court undermines its own legitimacy
Another Supreme Court term is in the books. Although the radical right turn that liberals had feared after Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s bruising confirmation fight failed to materialize,…
Magazine - Washington Briefing
Midsummer meltdown in the House
Congress is having an epic summer meltdown. Rather than passing critical bipartisan legislation, including a slew of spending bills needed to keep the government operating, lawmakers spent…
Magazine - Washington Briefing
Trump road tests his 2020 trade message in Wisconsin
When President Trump stepped on stage before an audience of aerospace contractors in Wisconsin, flanked by images of the F-35 Lightning and C-130 Hercules transport plane, he…
Magazine - Columnists
Barnes – Trump’s obsession with attention
In his Sunday morning tweets, President Trump denounced four female House members known as the Squad: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, Rashida Tlaib…
Beltway Confidential
Squad, attention!
In January, four weeks after the Washington Examiner magazine launched nationwide, we ran a cover story under the headline “Hostile Takeover” about four extreme young left-wingers barging…
Magazine - Features
Defusing the debt bomb before it blows up in millennials’ faces
A decade ago, during the rise of the Tea Party movement, conservatives elected a generation of Republicans to Congress under the banner of three essential agenda items.…
Business
Facebook’s biggest crypto problem may be its own reputation
The economic risks of a global cryptocurrency with the reach of Facebook were sufficient by themselves to give official Washington pause. It may be the social media…
Magazine - Life & Arts
Anatomy of a Dad Joke
The Sydney Morning Herald defines a Dad Joke as “a poor or obvious pun. It does not pretend to be more than that.” A Reader’s Digest collection…
Magazine - Life & Arts
Chaos Theory
Despite his iconic silence in oral arguments, Clarence Thomas is not the least-known justice to sit on the Supreme Court in recent years. That distinction probably belongs…