Healthcare
Telemedicine gets a boost with new study
A new study provides ammunition for members of Congress who hope to expand health coverage, both private and public, to cover telemedicine, remote health services that keep…
June 11, 2019
Magazine - Life & Arts
The full life of Herman Wouk
In the words of Flannery O’Connor, “A good man is hard to find.” During the last century, many literary tastemakers and trendsetters did not stop to wonder…
Magazine - Features
The libertarian fight over Trump
Former Sen. John Danforth, R-Mo., took to the op-ed pages to blast President Trump, early in his term, as “the most divisive president in our history.” While…
Beltway Confidential
Not my fault: How Cathy Guisewite’s essay collection redeems ‘Cathy’
As a young, single woman in the late 1980s, my mother enjoyed reading the comic strip “Cathy.” She found Cathy’s boy troubles and diet failures comforting, if…
Magazine - Columnists
Democrats’ Biden opportunity
Democrats have an advantage in the 2020 presidential race. They can select their nominee for president from a pack of candidates. Republicans are limited to one: President…
Energy and Environment
Around the world with Rick Perry
Energy Secretary Rick Perry is set to ramp up his shuttle diplomacy this summer, as he and his deputies fan out to advance U.S. interests from the…
Magazine - Obituary
Word of the Week: ‘Pride’
“With out killing them out there’s no way to fix it,” wrote Mark Chambers, the mayor of Carbon Hill, Ala., a town of about 2,000 just about…
Magazine - Columnists
Finding America at a back-roads gas station
DICKERSON, Md. — Everything happens for a reason. At least that’s what people tell you when your plans go south. Driving from Pittsburgh to Washington, D.C., recently,…
Beltway Confidential
Of cover-ups and beach reading
It has been apparent since the congressional midterm elections last November that little or no legislation would escape Capitol Hill, there being an absolute breach between President…
Magazine
France pays the price of grandeur
Julian Jackson, a professor of history at Queen Mary University of London, has painstakingly researched the life of a man, Charles de Gaulle, who dedicated himself in…