Beltway Confidential
Biden is 100 days in — but Rome wasn’t destroyed in a day
The weirdness of President Joe Biden’s address to Congress on April 28 was due not solely to having so few people in the House of Representatives to…
May 4, 2021
Magazine - Washington Briefing
A candid conversation with Rep. Mike Waltz, Congress’s only combat-decorated Green Beret
The first-term Florida Republican discusses his battles both in combat and at the Pentagon, his fight against wokeness at West Point, and his worries about Afghanistan. To…
Magazine - Your Land
People you hate punching one another
One of the greatest (and most hated) boxers of the 2000s, who retired in 2015, will fight a YouTube personality who is 0-1 as a professional boxer.…
Economy
Republicans look to corner Biden into deal on infrastructure
President Joe Biden says he wants to deal with the GOP on infrastructure, and Republicans have a much stronger hand than during the coronavirus spending package negotiations.…
Magazine - Life & Arts
Daddy Hemingway
The latest Ken Burns project, a three-part, six-hour documentary on Ernest Hemingway, aroused controversy before it even aired. In a short essay last year, filmmaker Grace Lee…
Economy
Then and Now: Beef
Last week, the food recipe website Epicurious pompously announced its decision not to publish new recipes featuring beef due to concerns over climate change. “This decision was…
Beltway Confidential
Emails reveal Montgomery County health department’s contempt for nonpublic schools
“The privileged class of the county is showing their behinds,” health officer Travis Gayles of Montgomery County, Maryland, wrote on Aug. 1, dismissing objections from parents, teachers,…
Columnists
Republicans, too, should wake up to Carville’s cry against ‘wokeness’
Legendary Democratic political strategist James Carville is on a mission against “wokeness,” but it is conservatives who can learn the most from his efforts. Carville began on…
Columnists
The 2020 census: Small Republican gains in a nation hunkered down
The COVID-19-delayed results of the 2020 census are finally in, with totals for the 50 states and the District of Columbia, and nearly one-third of a billion…