Magazine - Life & Arts
Grace in the clutch
It is sometimes said of aging athletes, long-running TV shows, and performing artists of all stripes that it is better to go out on top. The implication…
May 24, 2022
Healthcare
Study examines the budgetary impact of expanding Medicare eligibility
Last week, the Congressional Budget Office released a new study, requested by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), chairman of the Senate Committee on the Budget, examining the effects…
Business
How high will gas prices go?
As the price at the gas pump continues to climb to new heights, people all over the country are feeling its impact in myriad ways. “I drive…
Magazine - Washington Briefing
NSA involvement in encryption project raises suspicions
The National Security Agency is assisting with an effort to define a new encryption standard that’s unbreakable by the quantum computers of the future, and the agency…
Magazine - Life & Arts
Conservatism’s progress
“A state without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation,” Edmund Burke famously wrote in Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790).…
Magazine - Life & Arts
Kendrick Lamar dares us to categorize him
Any real artist flirts with being misunderstood, but the greats actively want some large part of the public and even their own admirers to get them wrong.…
Healthcare
Word of the Week: ‘Choice’
“Pro-life” and “pro-choice” are both manipulative euphemisms, because life and choice each sound unequivocally good, whereas the realities of both abortion and abortion bans bother most normal…
Crime
Randy Weaver, 1948-2022
Most readers of a certain age will recall the 1992 siege at Ruby Ridge in which Randy Weaver was wounded and his wife Victoria, his 14-year-old son…
Magazine - Washington Briefing
Putting Pennsylvania in play
As Pennsylvania goes, so goes the nation. It’s been true since the 2016 presidential election, and this emerging battleground figures to be decisive again this November. With…
Business
White House and Congress rush to contain growing baby formula shortage
Parents across the country have been scrambling in recent weeks to find formula to feed their children amid a massive shortage, prompting the Biden administration to mobilize…