Magazine - Your Land
Pull your pants up
One predictable lockdown symptom has been an increase in waistlines. But there have also been plenty of decreases. And even if you’ve been hiding from your neighbors…
June 29, 2021
Infrastructure
Biden’s two-step dance with liberals and centrists
President Joe Biden campaigned as a bipartisan deal-maker who had decisively beaten the socialists and police defunders in his own party — and then promptly unveiled a…
Magazine - Life & Arts
Equality or self-rule?
Fyodor Dostoevsky’s novel on leftists, Demons, follows a liberal teacher who doesn’t understand how his high-minded idealism leads to nihilism and civil unrest. George Packer, a National…
Business
Senators reintroduce legislation that would strengthen penalties for cyberattacks
A bipartisan group of senators has reintroduced legislation that would create new criminal penalties for cyberattacks. The International Cybercrime Prevention Act, reintroduced after it failed to pass…
Magazine - Features
Cheney hasn’t changed
When Rep. Liz Cheney is not in Washington, D.C., she lives a life not all that different from her Wyoming constituents. A mother of five, she recently…
Magazine - Life & Arts
The scientific Poe
As we know from John Donne, no man is an island. By the same token, no writer is separate from their place and time. The insight may…
Infrastructure
Infrastructure is far from done ‘deal’
President Joe Biden and a bipartisan group of 10 senators Thursday triumphantly announced they had reached an accord on a narrow infrastructure spending framework that would provide…
Magazine - Your Land
Running amok
Those unlucky enough to own a Peloton treadmill were hit with more unfortunate news this week: Not only do owners need to worry about their machines malfunctioning…
Magazine - Your Land
Word of the Week: ‘Drone’
On Dec. 17, 1903, on the dunes of Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, Orville Wright rode his and his brother’s flyer down a track, where it picked up…
Magazine - Life & Arts
The talented Mr. Jake
Plagiarism is a tricky thing. There are open-and-shut cases, such as stealing sentences or entire passages from other works, but these are mostly limited to undergraduates writing…