Economy
After Biden, the flood
After being asked for what must have seemed like the bazillionth time, West Virginia’s beleaguered Democratic senator, Joe Manchin, once again explained that he opposed nuking the…
June 15, 2021
Magazine - Life & Arts
The Woman in the Window can’t stick its landing
The Woman in the Window, a new film by master book-adapter Joe Wright, has one of the more interesting pedigrees in recent movie history. To begin with,…
Magazine - Life & Arts
Back to work
I know someone who works in advertising, and on his first week on the job, a more seasoned copywriter took him aside to give him advice. They…
Magazine - Life & Arts
Playoff hockey is the trashy action movie of sports. You should watch
Sandwiched between baseball’s slow trudge toward autumn and basketball’s interminable postseason deluge, the sporting world’s most underrated tournament glides by essentially ignored. If you don’t live in…
Magazine - Features
Give us the old normal
“Everyone who is born holds dual citizenship, in the kingdom of the well and in the kingdom of the sick,” wrote Susan Sontag in her classic 1978…
Beltway Confidential
Biden abroad — a trip or a fall?
President Joe Biden’s domestic agenda has hit a wall — infrastructure talks have collapsed, bipartisan opposition has hardened against his awful electoral reform bill, and the filibuster…
Healthcare
Outside-the-home social activities at highest levels since pandemic began as fears dissipate
People are leaving their homes to engage in social activities at growing rates as fears of the receding pandemic dissipate and people feel more comfortable loosening social…
Magazine - Washington Briefing
Biden’s hope for ambitious agenda is fading fast
President Joe Biden’s pretense as a deal-maker is about to be tested by Democrats as a compromise between the party’s rival factions appears to be as elusive…
Magazine - Life & Arts
Gifts for the discerning father
I propose that Father’s Day is an unnecessary holiday: We fathers, blessed with the stork’s generosity (this said with a catch in the throat), are possessed of…
Magazine - Your Land
We have a new ocean, everybody
There’s a new ocean, according to National Geographic. Abutting the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian oceans, and opposite the Arctic Ocean, the newly recognized Southern Ocean is a…