Magazine - Your Land
Let us out to a ballgame
Baseball is coming back April 1, but if you’re a fan in Washington, D.C., Seattle, or Baltimore, the joke’s on you. While most teams will have fans…
March 16, 2021
Education
Cabo over classrooms
Concerns about the coronavirus tend to fall flat when they’re coming from teachers sunbathing on the beach with a margarita in hand. So warns the United Teachers…
Magazine - Life & Arts
Factory-made cocktails
A few weeks ago, in this space, I made my peace with the long-brewing trend of packaging craft beers in cans. But there is a parallel trend…
Magazine - Your Land
Word of the Week: ‘AAPI’
Sometimes, you will find a minor controversy over whether the term “female” rather than “woman” rings overly clinical. In fact, usually, it’s just a regional difference in…
Magazine - Life & Arts
Nothing new under the sun
In the field of artificial intelligence, a “child machine” is one endowed with just enough cognitive architecture to bootstrap itself to intelligence. See Alan Turing’s essay “Computing…
Daily Memo
Byron York’s Daily Memo: Keep your eye on the things that matter
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Columnists
Biden’s open borders immigration policy — why?
“BIDEN,” read the young demonstrators’ T-shirts, imitating the new president’s campaign logo. “PLEASE LET US IN!” The picture ran in the New York Times, but one wonders…
Beltway Confidential
Beware Biden in the equity market
My Wall Street reporter self of 1987-1990 is amazed to hear politicians and the news media throw the word “equity” around as though everyone knows what it…