Columnists
The autocrats are winning
At the very moment that Xi Jinping was saying goodbye to Vladimir Putin in Moscow, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida was arriving in Kyiv. Separated by 5,000…
March 28, 2023
Magazine - Features
Chris Christie on Trump: ‘I’m tired of losing’
On Aug. 29, 2012, Chris Christie took the stage at the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Florida. The conservative Republican governor of deep-blue New Jersey led his…
Magazine - Washington Briefing
White House fired up over Freedom Caucus budget ahead of debt ceiling fight
The White House is invoking Adam Smith against congressional Republicans ahead of a showdown over the debt ceiling. “Goodbye invisible hand — and hello angry MAGA fist?”…
Beltway Confidential
The ripple effect of Joe Biden’s mismanagement
The banking crisis is like a brick thrown into our economic pond. Busted banks don’t just sink silently to the bottom, never to be heard of again.…
Foreign Policy
Guns vs. butter
“Guns vs. butter” has been a perennial feature of standard macroeconomics textbooks for decades. The phrase purports to illustrate the concept of “opportunity cost,” which economists define…
Healthcare
Biden budget promises changes to Medicaid
President Joe Biden’s fiscal 2024 budget proposal claims that if enacted, it will make a real dent in the federal budget deficit, which now stands at $1.8…
Foreign Policy
Bipartisan duo looks to force Biden’s hand on US-Saudi relations
A bipartisan pair of senators is trying to force President Joe Biden’s administration to reevaluate its relationship with Saudi Arabia with new legislation targeting the human rights…
Business
Congress debates lifting the limit on insured bank deposits after SVB crash
It’s not often that liberals such as Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and financial executives, or Republicans, agree on banking reforms. But the latest major crisis in the…
Magazine - Life & Arts
Two ways the marketing tail wags the product dog
Last week, I suggested that the Carthusian monks didn’t actually have much to do with the making of Chartreuse. This precipitated a courteous note from Tim Master,…
Business
My heart beats with Dan Snyder
I have accumulated an increasingly soul-numbing feeling of waste and moral injury from caring about the football team Dan Snyder has blackened over the past quarter-century. Under…