Magazine - Washington Briefing
Stacey Abrams’s election do-over
The candidate who lost the election did not concede, on the grounds that the race was stolen by the opponent who wound up taking office. Now, a…
May 17, 2022
Magazine - Features
Fed up with the firebrand
ROME, Georgia — Marjorie Taylor Greene is the rare House freshman who is already nearly a household name. In the two years since she was elected to…
Foreign Policy
Russian ransomware attack raises concerns about future actions
A ransomware attack by a Russian-speaking hacking group on the government of Costa Rica could be a preview of future attacks on the United States and allied…
Economy
Biden’s cure for high gasoline prices? The 2021 infrastructure bill
Facing rising gas prices, President Joe Biden made the case that his infrastructure bill is the thing that will really bring prices down. In a May 10…
Magazine - Your Land
Word of the Week: ‘Birthing people’
“If men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament,” feminist writer Gloria Steinem started saying in 1971, attributing the phrase to an “elderly Irish woman driver”…
Beltway Confidential
Who is protecting taxpayers from enrollment fraud?
The California college admissions process has once again found itself in the middle of a quagmire. First, celebrity parents were paying to get their children into California…
Magazine - Your Land
The Bucket List Is Back
When rock ’n’ roll legend Stevie Nicks played at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival on May 7, she repeatedly spoke of how it was the…
Magazine - Features
Thoughtcrimes of the past
In attempting to diagnose Americans’ sometimes-shoddy collective memory, the writer Gore Vidal once proposed renaming the nation “the United States of Amnesia.” Yet what ails much of…
Magazine - Life & Arts
The most important 19th century American you’ve never heard of
Every day, we are inundated with the names of people from the past. When you see an advertisement selling insurance for Lincoln Financial Group, drive down a…
Business
When everything is software, you don’t really own anything
The MacBook Air I bought in 2014 looks like it is in tip-top condition. It turns on quickly and easily. It runs Safari, Chrome, and Firefox just…