Magazine - Features
Useful idiocracy
Now that China’s fever has broken in terms of its mismanagement of the novel coronavirus, the Chinese Communist Party has the strength to raise its finger to…
March 24, 2020
Magazine - Your Land
Word of the Week: Tkarón:to
In a vain attempt to avoid writing about what we were still calling the “novel coronavirus” two weeks ago, I went spelunking in the notes I jot…
Magazine - Your Land
Finding community in isolation
The coronavirus pandemic has isolated thousands of Americans, forcing most adults to take refuge at home and avoid social situations. But community is not out of reach…
Magazine - Features
Quarantine: A guide for the perplexed
WHAT TO READ Christine Rosen Reading in a time of pandemic prompts some obvious recommendations: Giovanni Boccaccio’s The Decameron (1353), which explores the behavior of a small…
Magazine - Columnists
What Trump is and isn’t doing right about the virus
Things will get worse in America before they get better. That’s the dark cloud the coronavirus has spread over our country. Great suffering has come our way…
Business
Counterfeits in the time of pandemic
The coronavirus outbreak has prompted more people to shop online at a time when the number of counterfeit goods sold on the web has also increased. The…
Magazine - Washington Briefing
Republicans who loathe big spending forced to embrace biggest stimulus plan in history
Republicans, who have long opposed massive stimulus measures, are now spearheading the most expensive one in history to try to rescue the economy from the effects of…
Magazine - Life & Arts
Stale obscenities
Shock ages poorly and is a sentiment ill-suited to the age. If outrage still abounds, its most irritating facet is its phoniness: With the heroic portions of…
Magazine - Your Land
Flying in a pandemic
Two weeks ago, I was on a flight returning to Washington, D.C. News of the coronavirus outbreak in the United States had just hit the airwaves, so…
Magazine - Washington Briefing
New privacy bill would add 440 FTC employees
New legislation introduced in the Senate would pump up the Federal Trade Commission as a way to enforce new privacy and data security laws. The Consumer Data…