Foreign Policy
Word of the Week: ‘Totalitario’
There are a few slightly precious linguistic taboos I have noticed people in older generations than mine are likely to maintain. Obviously, young people use the classic…
November 1, 2022
Magazine - Life & Arts
The Banshees of Inisherin is despairingly funny
“How’s the despair?” The question is repeated through The Banshees of Inisherin, Martin McDonagh’s existential howl of a comedy that brings to mind everyone from Samuel Beckett…
Finance
Healthcare costs could be a sleeper midterm elections issue
With Election Day around the corner, the midterm elections have been widely portrayed as a referendum on decades-high inflation, stubbornly expensive gas prices, abortion policy, and the…
Foreign Policy
Ash Carter’s Russian evolution
Most obituaries for Ashton B. Carter prominently credited the former Pentagon chief with removing the last barriers to women serving in combat and allowing transgender troops to…
Magazine - Life & Arts
Netanyahu in his own memory
With its release in Hebrew and English just two weeks before the election, it would be easy to dismiss Bibi: My Story as another hastily compiled, ghostwritten…
Business
Liquored up?
The colonial legacy of Massachusetts is on display in British-style architecture around the Bay State — and even in the “r”-less Boston accent of some locals, with…
Magazine
The Democrats rely on trickery
Democrat John Fetterman’s sad, stumbling debate performance against Republican Mehmet Oz underlined the fact that his party seeks victory with trickery. It isn’t interested in winning political…
Courage, Strength & Optimism
House GOP promises energy policy change if party wins majority in midterm elections
News House GOP promises energy policy change if party wins majority in midterm elections By Jeremy Beaman, Energy and Environment Reporter October 28, 2022 03:15 AM Twitter…
Magazine - Features
Republicans on a roll
HARRISBURG, Pennsylvania — Mediocre candidates, lackluster fundraising, self-inflicted wounds. Squint hard enough and you might catch remnants of the three political hurdles, or some combination thereof, that…
Magazine - Life & Arts
The life of a lawyer for Big Tobacco
Cigarettes are the deadliest consumer product in the world. Researchers have known this since rigorous studies established the link between smoking, lung cancer, and other diseases in…