Magazine - Your Land
Don ‘Beto’ Quixote
From the dudes who brought you the Iran Deal, détente with communist Cuba, and “Pod Save America” comes “Running with Beto.” The 93-minute Don Quixote remake masquerading…
June 4, 2019
Magazine - Life & Arts
The joy of losing
If the Washington Post’s Chuck Lane was annoyed by the weekslong reign of “Jeopardy!” champion James Holzhauer back at the end of April, he must be positively…
Magazine - Life & Arts
Tom Zinkle takes a stand
The U.S. Army does a lot right. That shouldn’t stop us from speaking out when it does wrong. When Staff Sgt. Tom Zinkle served with the Army…
Magazine - Your Land
The opposite of the truth
When Bill Buckner died last week, I mentioned on Twitter that he had handled his fielding-error-induced infamy with class and also that it was a good thing…
Magazine - Washington Briefing
Mueller statement ticks up impeachment push
Special counsel Robert Mueller’s surprise public statement about his investigation into alleged Russian collusion with the 2016 Trump campaign prompted pro-impeachment Democrats to declare they should start…
Energy and Environment
Republicans resist push for clean electricity mandate
Congressional Republicans are resisting entreaties from Democrats to support a federal clean electricity mandate, widening the gulf between the two parties and showing the limits on what…
Healthcare
Bill moves to end NIH monkey business
House legislators are looking to require the National Institutes of Health to write a plan for using fewer monkeys and other primates in medical research labs and…
Education
Teachers unions play a double game with charter schools
Last December, teachers at Acero Schools in Chicago initiated the first major strike at a charter school network, capping off a year of teacher strikes across the…
Magazine - Features
Injustice funders
Dana Kawaoka-Chen, executive director of a new group called Justice Funders, issued a rallying cry in a recent talk with the Chronicle of Philanthropy. She said, “There…
Crime
Police banned from using facial recognition in San Francisco
A bipartisan group of U.S. lawmakers is considering federal legislation to limit the use of facial recognition technologies by law enforcement agencies. “Facial recognition is a fascinating…