Beltway Confidential
Digging up your dog’s bones
Americans are obsessed with identity, not just identity politics. They want to know who they are and where they’ve come from, and millions of them have paid…
March 12, 2019
Beltway Confidential
Empathy for the devil?
One of the weaker defenses of art is that it cultivates empathy. So what are we to make of the latest television show in which the viewer…
Magazine - Life & Arts
The Hamlets of neoliberalism
Anand Giridharadas has powerful qualifications for writing about the “winners” in a globalized world. After studying at Michigan, Oxford, and Harvard, he joined McKinsey, where his father…
Magazine - Lead Stories
New rules, same slowpoke play
Golf finally gets a new rule book, and it took the equivalent of only one year … of a dog’s life. The U.S. Golf Association and the…
Magazine - Features
Bernie’s Promised Land
Bernie Sanders officially kicked off his quest to be Joshua. His opponents for the Democratic presidential nomination hope he’ll turn out to be Moses. The question to…
Magazine - Washington Briefing
Cohen offers road map, not bombshells
Michael Cohen’s testimony before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee was must-see TV in Washington, D.C., and beyond, with his denunciations of President Trump and revelations…
Energy and Environment
The moderate Republican on Pelosi’s climate committee
Rep. Garret Graves, R-La., says he despises the labels that have come to define the climate change debate and modern politics. “I consider myself a conservative, an…
Foreign Policy
Biblical Ambassador
In his new office in Jerusalem, David Friedman, the U.S. ambassador to Israel, has a huge, brightly colored painting of the 12 spies returning from the land…
Beltway Confidential
Billion dollar baby
President Trump turned a $60.7 million loan from his father in 1975 into his $3.1 billion net worth today. That’s more than a 5,000 percent return on…
Magazine - Your Land
Band of brothers
The Jonas Brothers are back and, dare I say, better than ever. After a six-year hiatus, the former teen-heartthrob trio has reunited to take the world by…