Magazine - Life & Arts
The ordeal of Pvt. Pond
In the summer of ’99, the Army sold us yearbooks to help us remember our three months at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri, enduring basic training and learning…
March 16, 2021
Business
Don’t force workers to join a union
In 1978, when I was 17 years old, I worked as an usher at concerts and sporting events earning $2.25 an hour, the minimum wage. I had…
Magazine - Obituary
Roger Mudd, 1928-2021
There’s an interesting irony in the long, productive life of Roger Mudd, the veteran broadcast journalist and newsreader who died last week at his home outside Washington,…
Energy and Environment
Carbon taxes are out, and clean electricity standards are in
Top Democrats are ditching carbon pricing and carbon taxes in favor of a policy known as a clean electricity standard. President Biden placed a clean electricity standard,…
Magazine - Features
Party of groupthink
When President Biden finally signed into law a $1.9 trillion spending package, passed without a single Republican vote in either house of Congress, the White House celebrated…
Magazine - Features
The pope’s historic visit to Iraq
Dressed all in black and wearing a Rolex, Abu Bakr al Baghdadi slowly climbed the pulpit of the Great Mosque of al Nuri in Mosul and declared…
Magazine - Life & Arts
Patrice O’Neal’s tragedy, and ours
In June 2011, a few months before he suffered the stroke that would eventually claim his life, comedian Patrice O’Neal made one of his last appearances on…
Magazine - Features
Bad Times
On Wednesday, Feb. 24, there were two journalism-related announcements in New York. The first, by Long Island University, unveiled the winners of the 73rd annual George Polk…
Magazine - Your Land
RIP #MeToo
Recent sideshows, such as President Biden’s embrace of accused rapist Jacob Blake and the cable news replatforming of accused serial groper Al Franken, have indicated that the…
Business
Maine’s a la carte cable law faces swift legal setbacks after being first of its kind in US
A federal appeals court rejected a Maine law that would have required cable companies to provide subscribers the ability to purchase individual channels. For years, consumers have…