Education
The student loan fiasco
White House chief of staff Ron Klain recently hinted that President Joe Biden may once again extend the pause on student loan payments, which is currently set…
March 22, 2022
Magazine - Features
Biden throws Putin a nuclear lifeline
The Russian war of aggression in Ukraine has significantly encumbered the Biden administration’s drive to reach a renewed Iran nuclear deal. Seeing an opportunity to build leverage…
Healthcare
Too cool for Juul
I have a young friend who, like a lot of irritating young people, uses one of those ridiculous vape pens. We were talking recently and he pulled…
Magazine - Your Land
‘LOL, let’s ban ordinary time!’
GameStop, a video game store, saw its stock go from about $18 a share to $325 over the course of January 2021. AMC movie theaters also saw…
Magazine - Obituary
William Hurt, 1950-2022
William Hurt arguably had two well-connected, well-trod paths in front of him. He took neither. Hurt was born in Washington, D.C., to parents who were part of…
Education
No such thing as value-less education
For the past two years, two distinct but connected phenomena have dominated American schooling. The first of these is the COVID-19 pandemic and its associated school closures,…
Magazine - Washington Briefing
The coast is clear, grave-dancing
Last week, the New York Times published a bombshell scoop confirming the reporting that got the New York Post banned from social media during the 2020 presidential…
Beltway Confidential
Jussie Smollett forced to share a jail cell with his attacker
Is there a more delusional group of people than those who support Jussie Smollett? From Samuel L. Jackson to Black Lives Matter to the state’s attorney who…
Beltway Confidential
Biden’s risk aversion is escalating Putin’s war
The Biden administration is right to try to avoid a direct military confrontation with Russia, but their confrontation avoidance has made the White House dangerously and unreasonably…
Magazine - Features
The war next door
In 2008, President Lech Kaczynski of Poland took a hard-line anti-Putin attitude in the war following Russia’s invasion of Georgia, saying, “Today Georgia, tomorrow Ukraine, the day…