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Smoke ’em if you got there
One of the great joys of travel, if you’re a certain kind of person, is discovering how many places are still basically OK when you pull out…
March 19, 2024
Baby Bust: How a family-unfriendly culture has left us with fewer children
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Eric Carmen, 1949-2024
You’re making a Valentine’s Day rom-com, and you’ve reached the moment in your movie when your love interests have their inevitable breakup-before-eventually-getting-back-together scenes. Yes, you’ll give your…
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Europe fears Trump’s return
A specter is haunting Europe. Not Vladimir Putin’s Russia, whose imperial ghost has returned in the invasion of Ukraine. Not illegal immigration, which could be called a…
Magazine - Your Land
Retirement is not stupid, it’s a sign of a healthy nation
In a recent episode of his wildly popular podcast, conservative commentator and author Ben Shapiro drew viral attention for arguing that the concept of retirement is “stupid”…
Infrastructure
Another $100 billion needed for California’s train to nowhere
When California voters were first sold on the vision for a high-speed train connecting San Francisco to Los Angeles back in 2008, they were told the 500-mile…
Business
Not even the Fed can counter a decade of bad zoning law distorting the housing market
By all available accounts, the Federal Reserve’s unilateral war against the worst inflationary crisis in 40 years is going precisely according to plan. The fastest monetary tightening…
Entertainment
Hulu gets James Clavell’s classic Shogun right
Finally, something good to watch on TV again. Amid a sea of Disney-Marvel dross, the drip-feed of mediocre Netflix dime-a-dozens, and billion-dollar adaptations not worth the server…
Beltway Confidential
Tacos to-go only
The most important problem in most cities right now is crime. That is to be expected when you can’t even enjoy tacos in peace. Oakland is one…
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Ex-Rep. Justin Amash returns to Republican fold for Michigan Senate run
Michigan Senate candidate Justin Amash will have a familiar (R) by his name on the Aug. 6 primary ballot. However, that’s not how he wanted to be…
Entertainment
The strange twilight of men’s lifestyle magazines
As publications designed to appeal to the young, the affluent, and the upwardly mobile, men’s lifestyle magazines have always had a liberal, cosmopolitan sensibility. People who join…