Economy
Who needs universal basic income?
Supporters of universal basic income (UBI) share with Marxists an almost heroic indifference to evidence. The most ambitious trial yet, sponsored by the Finnish government, came to…
March 12, 2019
Magazine - Your Land
Making ‘socialism’ cool
As author Simon van Zuylen-Wood writes in a dryly biting essay in New York magazine, the spread of “socialist” politics is changing the way New York’s young…
Business
‘Club drug’ variant wins FDA approval
Developed in the early 1960s, ketamine first gained popularity as a battlefield anesthetic for wounded soldiers. By the mid-1980s, it had achieved a second life as a…
Beltway Confidential
Letter from the editor: March 12, 2019
An ambitious acquaintance of mine once said he’d roll his tanks on to his boss’s lawn within six months. It’s an effective though uncomfortable metaphor conjuring a…
Economy
Grassley empowered
Sen. Chuck Grassley, R.-Iowa, newly empowered as the chairman of the Senate Finance Committee and Senate president pro tempore, will help determine the fate of President Trump’s…
Beltway Confidential
The kids are not alright
There’s something happening to America’s teenagers, and it’s not good. Most U.S. teens are worried about the mental health of their peers, according to a recent study…
Magazine - Washington Briefing
Momentum builds for national privacy law
The specter of dozens of privacy bills moving through state legislatures this year may push Congress to pass its own legislation this year, despite doubts about lawmakers’…
Magazine - Lead Stories
Our empty mayo jar society
Never let it be said that I am some sort of Luddite. Yes, I have a taste for vintage this and retro that. Were I offered the…
Magazine - Columnists
Losing a hometown hero
PITTSBURGH — Baseball is always held up as a metaphor for life in America. The struggles and disappointments, along with the workaday perseverance, form clear parallels. Both…
Healthcare
What’s Left?
In the 2004 comedy “Team America: World Police” a squad of terror-fighting marionettes lands in Paris to subdue a small group of terrorist infiltrators. To head off…