Magazine - Washington Briefing
The new rules
The House Rules Committee hearing room in the Capitol lacks the grandeur and ornate decorations of those often seen in televised hearings. A quick staircase walk or…
March 7, 2023
Magazine - Life & Arts
This little historian went to market
The historian of science Steven Shapin famously opened his 1996 study of The Scientific Revolution by declaring, “There was no such thing as the Scientific Revolution, and…
Magazine - Life & Arts
Someone should fire The Consultant
Disappointingly, Amazon Prime’s new series The Consultant is not a raucous sendup of Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg’s McKinsey years. That at least might have been entertaining. What…
Magazine - Life & Arts
Bomb busters
As a U.S. Army combat engineer who worked with explosives, I always admired people in explosives ordnance disposal, or EOD. These are the military’s technically proficient warriors…
Business
The great national supply chain arms race
Before the COVID-19 pandemic seized the world, many goods that Americans enjoyed were stamped “Made in China.” Many more might as well have been, with the components…
Magazine - Life & Arts
True forgiveness
Maybe you remember this: On Jan. 11, the Federal Aviation Administration halted all flights across the country for two hours. There was a computer glitch in the…
Magazine - Life & Arts
Grin and Cocaine Bear it
If Snakes on a Plane was too substantive for you, Cocaine Bear might just be your jam. Like Snakes on a Plane, the 2006 Samuel L. Jackson…
Business
Dwindling consumer bureau confidence
The Supreme Court will, in its next term, take up a case that could imperil the fate of a federal agency born out of the 2008 financial…
Infrastructure
At the end of the EV rainbow, you’ll probably be riding a bus
The electric vehicle is not a new idea, predating its gasoline-powered sibling by nearly 60 years. But it’s always been a tough sell. That’s because there has…
Magazine - Life & Arts
Tattoo etiquette
I sometimes feel as though I am the last man in America without a tattoo. Body art is one of those modern phenomena that is one day…