Editorials
Don’t reopen tax loopholes
The 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act has been very effective so far, judging by low unemployment rates and strong rates of economic and wage growth. But…
June 25, 2019
Energy and Environment
Jay Inslee is putting climate on the 2020 agenda
Jay Inslee is succeeding in raising the profile of climate change, if not in gaining traction in the Democratic presidential primary. Climate change has matched or overtaken…
Magazine - Features
Chaos at the NRA
The National Rifle Association has ousted its president and first vice president, watched an open revolt from some members on the floor of its annual meeting, sued…
Healthcare
Student debt is keeping doctors from rural areas
Burdensome student loan debt is discouraging aspiring doctors from setting up their own practices, exacerbating the decline of primary care doctors in rural and impoverished communities. Student…
Beltway Confidential
Let the bad times roll
The 2020 presidential election is in high gear; some 16 months before voters cast their ballots, the campaign already promises to be intense and bitter to a…
Magazine - Features
Return of the kingmaker
Pete Buttigieg needed to connect with black voters. Or, more precisely, he needed black voters to know that he knew that he needed to connect with black…
Magazine - Lead Stories
An epic poem to America
In my life, “there’s an acute sense of time’s passage,” David Milch once remarked. “Things are important. You don’t want to be inconsequential in your perspective on…
Beltway Confidential
The silent victims of 9/11
Near the southern tip of Manhattan, each name of the 2,977 victims of 9/11 is inscribed in stone. Americans have vowed to remember those who died during…
Crime
A good guy with a machete
But when the blast of war blows in our ears,Then imitate the action of the tiger;Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood,Disguise fair nature with hard-favour’d rage;Then…
Beltway Confidential
This 10-year-old, climbing El Capitan, really rocks
It’s not clear whether to file this under the category of “crazy things parents push children to do” or under “wow, that little girl is so, so…