Magazine - Your Land
A memorial for whom?
Forget the fallen soldiers. Some people want Memorial Day to become a day about COVID-19. A group of activists is petitioning the federal government to create a…
March 23, 2021
Magazine - Life & Arts
Things were different back then
“We’re looking for something edgy and groundbreaking,” an executive at one of the big television streaming services told me last week. “We want to shock people,” she…
Magazine - Life & Arts
The roots we’ve lost
Roots, in the literal sense, connect life and earth. They transfer nourishment, anchor against the winds, and bind things together. Grace Olmstead’s new book, Uprooted: Recovering the…
Magazine - Features
Woody Allen and ‘living’ art
We hear regularly of the concept of a living constitution. Now, we seem to have entered a time of living books, films, and pieces of music. Pieces…
Magazine - Your Land
Word of the Week: ‘Embiggen’
The Simpsons episode “Lisa the Iconoclast” aired during season seven of the show that’s now been renewed for seasons 33 and 34, which will take it to…
Magazine - Life & Arts
Shaq, LeBron, and the specter of anti-Mormonism
As the NBA went into its spring All-Star break, the Utah Jazz, led by three league All-Stars, held the best record in basketball. Given the misconceptions the…
Magazine - Your Land
Wokeness won’t let us have problematic, good fun like The Bachelor
Reality television classic The Bachelor was supposed to have reached its woke redemption with its first black leading man, Matt James. Instead, by the end of his…
Business
Mitt Romney leans in on carbon tax to spur clean energy technology breakthroughs
Sen. Mitt Romney is “interested” in passing a carbon tax to address climate change, making him the most prominent active Republican in Congress to consider the policy.…
Magazine - Your Land
Rerouting or renaming
If you’re driving through northwest California and the road on your GPS suddenly changes names and then changes back, you can thank racial justice. Last summer’s Black…
Foreign Policy
Catastrophe in the Horn of Africa
President Biden’s decision to put human rights at the center of his foreign policy agenda is facing its first major test: A U.S. ally, Ethiopia, stands credibly…