Editorials
When does it end?
Sen. Rand Paul and top Biden adviser Anthony Fauci had a spat on Thursday over masks, vaccination, and reinfection. Partisans of both sides claimed victory, but the…
March 23, 2021
Healthcare
On vaccinations, the EU is showing its Venezuelan side
Last Wednesday, the European Union went rogue. Its leaders stopped behaving like dull functionaries and started behaving like Chavista demagogues or Nasserite dictators. Humiliated by the slow…
Columnists
Ignoring even one shattered norm endangers the civilian-military relationship
It took New York City 10 long years for them to welcome home Vietnam War veterans officially, gratitude they were denied in 1975 primarily because of the…
Editorials
The Democrats’ border crisis is decades in the making
Former President Donald Trump brought some order to the border — not with his much-vaunted wall, but with diplomacy. President Biden has already scrapped that diplomacy, in…
Education
Always a bully
It was Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2020, when it all started to go downhill for Andrew Cuomo. The New York governor had been enjoying a reputation for competency…
Magazine - Life & Arts
Sharks, hyenas, newts
Wolfgang Koeppen’s Pigeons on the Grass, in the new translation by poet Michael Hofmann, is a dizzying novel. It has no central character. There is no governing…
Magazine - Life & Arts
Behind Her Eyes isn’t problematic; it’s just preposterous
Trick endings come in two categories. In the first, comprising works such as The Usual Suspects, the concluding volte-face lands like a blow, having assiduously disguised itself…
Beltway Confidential
The Grammys are over
At the best of times, the Grammy Awards are garish displays of self-celebration by props Auto-tuned and surgically perfected, who we pretend put out good music. During…
Business
Judge allows class-action lawsuit against Google to proceed
A judge in California ruled that Google must face a class-action lawsuit claiming the technology conglomerate continued to gather data from users who used “incognito” mode on…
Magazine - Washington Briefing
Pressure builds on Democrats to ditch filibuster to pass Biden agenda
Pressure is building on Democrats to ditch the filibuster to pass a long list of party agenda items that Republicans oppose. Democrats hope to pass a trio…