Magazine - Your Land
Word of the Week: ‘Diphthong’
The power couple comprising billionaire Paypal co-founder and electric car subsidy grifter Elon Musk and the Canadian pop singer Claire Elise Boucher, who goes by the stage…
May 12, 2020
Magazine - Washington Briefing
Mitch McConnell demands liability protection in any new coronavirus spending bill
The fate of the next economic aid package in Congress will hinge on whether Republicans and Democrats can agree on a provision to limit coronavirus-related lawsuits. Senate…
Magazine - Life & Arts
Minor threat
The Frederick Keys, the High-A affiliate of the Baltimore Orioles for the past 31 years, led the Carolina League in per-game attendance in 2019. The team is…
Magazine - Life & Arts
The losing end
Ed West’s conservatives are a deeply unattractive bunch. Wannabee rugged individualists frightened of the world, losers driven by resentment and self-pity, sex-obsessed hypocrites whose internet searches likely…
Editorials
The unbearable lightness of Joe Biden’s shallow coronavirus declaration
Joe Biden, stripped of his ability to hold events or campaign traditionally and robbed of the usual spotlight afforded to presidential challengers, has tried to stay relevant.…
Economy
COVID-19 is no good reason to cancel rents or mortgages
As the housing market collapsed in 2008 and 2009, millions of people stopped paying their mortgages. The ensuing disaster — the secondary mortgage market imploded — is…
Beltway Confidential
The damage done by journalism prizes
Could Nikole Hannah-Jones’s Pulitzer Prize for commentary have fallen more neatly into that category of events that are shocking yet unsurprising? The announcement landed with a thud…
Beltway Confidential
What does ‘isolate the vulnerable’ even mean?
Those arguing for a more rapid lifting of coronavirus restrictions have a refrain that goes something along the lines of: “Isolate the elderly and more vulnerable populations,…
Beltway Confidential
The importance of being essential
The closure of nonessential businesses in most states across the country has left millions of people out of work, with either reduced wages or no clear income…