Education
Word of the week: ‘Prep school’
Some terms are obviously euphemisms fabricated in order to evade. When you say you “slept with” someone last night, the appropriate question in reply isn’t about how…
March 26, 2019
Magazine - Life & Arts
Resenting biology and common sense
Toward the end of her new book, Making Motherhood Work, Washington University sociologist Caitlyn Collins observes that the mothers she interviews in Italy often complain about having…
Magazine - Life & Arts
Bulldozing an unexploded bomb
Some people advocate a total U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan on the false claim that we’ve done no good there. One of the many ways we’ve made Afghanistan…
Magazine - Your Land
Snowplow parents
Almost everyone is familiar with the term “helicopter parenting.” When parents take an overprotective and excessive interest in their children and what they do, the moniker fits.…
Magazine - Business
Social media companies under pressure to censor violent content
Mass murders inspired copycats well before the existence of social media platforms, but governments around the world still say the industry must do everything in its power…
Magazine - Obituary
Obituary: Bernard Krisher
If the Talmudic precept “whoever saves a single life is considered by scripture to have saved the whole world” is to be believed, Bernard Krisher saved the…
Magazine - Features
Obama’s narcissism gets its monument
Presidential libraries are many things. They’re repositories of the official papers and, in many cases, the personal archives and artifacts of our nation’s chief executives, as well…
Magazine - Lead Stories
A jumbo slice of the swamp’s favorite pizza
New York and Chicago may be pizza-famous, but their pies are small tomatoes next to D.C.’s jumbo slice. Often over a foot in length, a jumbo slice…
Magazine - Washington Briefing
Congress takes on a force of nature
Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., wants to use her power as House Financial Services Committee chairwoman to overhaul a program that touches millions of homeowners: the National Flood…
Beltway Confidential
Go meme yourself
When Facebook and Instagram briefly went down last week, Twitter users welcomed Mark Zuckerberg devotees to their preferred platform. But Twitter is a dark place, full of…