Business
Data privacy push pits Washington against states
Silicon Valley trade groups are consistent in their hope that a federal data privacy law will preempt the growing thicket of state regulations, including one that mirrors…
March 5, 2019
Infrastructure
Trump, California spar over high-speed rail
The Trump administration and California Gov. Gavin Newsom are sparring over funding for California’s high-speed rail project, a bullet train originally designed to carry passengers from Los…
Business
Curing Northern Virginia’s government dependency
The longest government shutdown in U.S. history served as a reminder this year, if one were needed, of the Washington, D.C., region’s economic dependence on federal payrolls.…
Magazine - Washington Briefing
America’s nuclear commander defends deterrence
The following is a condensed and edited version of testimony that Air Force Gen. John Hyten, the U.S. strategic commander in charge of America’s nuclear forces, gave…
Magazine - Features
Everything you know about Brexit is wrong
Tracing the footsteps of the conservative Anglophile man of letters Nirad C. Chaudhuri, my English life as a doctoral researcher started in 2015 with disillusionment. It’s hard…
Magazine - Features
My Geneva Convention for the Trump wars
Conservatives have long quarreled strenuously among themselves about fundamental ideas and matters of principle, as well as practical political decisions such as whether Eisenhower or Nixon deserved…
Magazine - Your Land
‘True Detective’ succeeds where ‘Green Book’ failed
Actor Mahershala Ali is on a roll. He won his second Oscar for actor in a supporting role for his performance in “Green Book.” On the same…
Energy and Environment
Leaked climate committee plan raises hackles
President Trump’s former climate adviser says the new ad hoc White House effort to investigate climate change could be headed for the scrap heap before it even…
Magazine - Life & Arts
Pallet cleanser
Next to duct tape, there really isn’t anything more useful out in the country than a good wooden pallet. You know the kind, two layers of slats…
Education
Harvard vs. John Adams and America
Standing in a courtroom before his fellow Bostonians on Dec. 3, 1770, John Adams began his closing argument in defense of the eight British soldiers involved in…