Magazine - Life & Arts
Well done but vanishingly rare
Why is Austin’s famed Franklin BBQ always running out of BBQ? Perhaps for a reason related to why I made terrible stir-fry in college. When I say…
May 21, 2019
Columnists
Real America sits at one end of the Potomac — and also at the other
GORMANIA, W.Va. — Life here along the North Branch of the Potomac River is very different than life 162 miles downriver. Here, there is raw natural beauty…
Economy
Export-Import Bank critics rebound
Critics of the Export-Import Bank are hoping for a chance to reform it before September, when the bank’s existing charter runs out. Free market critics of the…
Magazine - Life & Arts
The fallen on foreign shores
Veterans talk about war differently from those who’ve never experienced combat. When they actually communicate about what they saw and endured — something they’re reluctant to do,…
Magazine - Washington Briefing
Warren wants credit rating agencies to pay for data breaches
Credit reporting agencies would pay hefty fines for data breaches under legislation introduced this month by a group of Democratic lawmakers. Inspired by the massive 2017 data…
Business
Farmers in US heartland fume over fallout from Trump’s China tariffs
As a Minnesota farmer, Mike Peterson is accustomed to dealing with slumping crop prices or damage from volatile weather. He had no way to prepare, however, for…
Beltway Confidential
What comes between me and my Calvins: Their pathetic ad campaigns
In 1980, a fully clothed Brooke Shields reinvented sex with just 11 words. “You wanna know what comes between me and my Calvins? Nothing,” she purred into…
Beltway Confidential
Letter from the editor: May 21, 2019
There’s an elegiac tone to this week’s magazine. It’s appropriate, for this is the final issue we will publish in Military Appreciation Month and our two main…
Education
Social justice warriors are just getting started
The forthcoming young adult novel “Blood Heir” would not strike most readers as racist. Its Chinese author, Amélie Wen Zhao, was born in Paris and grew up…