Foreign Policy
Summit gamble won’t cool Iran tensions
President Trump abruptly invited Iranian leaders to “call me” to strike a “fair deal” blocking nuclear development on May 12, but experts say there’s unlikely to be…
May 21, 2019
Beltway Confidential
Millennials’ money moves
Young people get a bad rap for being addicted to their phones and their Instagram likes. But they’re surprisingly philanthropic, and an ancient philosopher might be able…
Magazine - Features
Coming home
No matter where you lived in America on the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, the story often begins with a sapphire sky filled with airy white clouds…
Magazine - Life & Arts
Mother’s Day roses really smell like …
My wonderful wife Michele has been a mom for nearly 30 years, so for this past Mother’s Day, I really tried to find an unusual present. Earrings…
Magazine - Your Land
Word of the Week: ‘Marxist’
I hope it won’t bore you too much to hear a little bit about Marxist theory. Apparently Das Kapital bores actual, self-identified “Marxists” too much, because they…
Columnists
Don’t underestimate the Democrats
A consensus appears to be coming together on the Right that President Trump is headed to reelection in 2020. And why not? Republicans are united behind Trump…
Magazine - Features
Rolling Thunder rides off into the sunset
The roar begins in the parking lot at the Pentagon. Within minutes, the slow rumble, mostly of Harley-Davidson motorcycles, makes its way onto Memorial Bridge. Thus begins…
Magazine - Life & Arts
‘The Phantom Menace’ at 20
In NBC’s tremendous-if-uneven sitcom “Community,” there is an episode wherein a neurotic film student named Abed Nadir suffers a temporary psychotic break after he enrolls in a…
Beltway Confidential
How Rembrandt and Degas could help end the opioid crisis
The pharmaceutical company that allegedly inflamed the opioid crisis is finally being held accountable, and its reckoning has come, in part, from an unlikely source: the Metropolitan…
Energy and Environment
Trump’s ethanol edge
President Trump’s ethanol policy could help him outpace competitors in the 2020 presidential election in Iowa, according to ethanol’s biggest supporter in the Senate, Republican Chuck Grassley.…