Columnists
Kick your Twitter addiction
My name is Daniel, and I’m a recovering addict. It has been six months since my last tweet. Tearing myself away from those dopamine hits was, if…
March 21, 2023
Economy
Joe Biden’s ebbing economic tide
Just as a rising tide lifts all boats, so ebbing ones sink them closer to the rocks. Economies are the same. When they weaken and recede, everyone…
Beltway Confidential
Biden is pulling the reverse ferret
The Ukraine war is President Joe Biden’s war. Like all foreign misadventures, it is coming home as a domestic issue. It’s impressive how fast and early this…
Magazine - Features
Saddam Hussein was there too
The surest proof that the Iraq War ended in disappointment and failure is that it has receded into history as an orphan: “George W. Bush’s war,” as…
Foreign Policy
What is the most important lesson of the Iraq War?
No era-defining event, least of all a bloody and grinding decade of war, contains only one lesson for public policymakers and the society they represent. But the…
Foreign Policy
What we got right in Iraq
Based on what U.S. officials knew 20 years ago, they were absolutely justified in taking military action to evict Saddam Hussein from power in Iraq. Twenty years…
Foreign Policy
What we got wrong in Iraq
My views on nation-building in general and nation-building in Iraq in particular are, as is said, “complicated.” Perhaps we can begin this way: In many ways, the…
Economy
Michigan is headed back to Rust Belt poverty
Opinion Michigan is headed back to Rust Belt poverty By Stephen Moore March 17, 2023 08:52 AM Twitter LinkedIn Facebook Email Print Opinion Michigan is headed back…
Magazine - Washington Briefing
A president from Walmart?
Asa Hutchinson, 72, has announced that he’s considering running for the Republican nomination for president, casting a spotlight on his record as much as on his judgment…
Magazine - Life & Arts
A new book that has the lottery’s number
For many lower-income Americans, the lottery “is more than just a game: It represents the likeliest path to financial stability, not to mention wealth,” Jonathan D. Cohen…