Magazine - Columnists
America, the beautiful exception
Chileans have just voted for a new constitution. Whoa, wait! Come back! I’m going somewhere with this! Don’t stop reading just yet. I know there is a…
November 10, 2020
Magazine - Columnists
Voters stood up to the culture and declared their center-right values
PINE TOWNSHIP — Had you spent any space of time in this northern suburb of Pittsburgh listening to voters, finding out what things mattered to them when…
Business
Chamber of Commerce breaks with some Republicans who want to open up the economy fully
Neil Bradley is executive vice president and chief policy officer at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the nation’s largest business advocacy group. The Chamber is the largest…
Business
With a slimmer House majority, Democrats may have to compromise on infrastructure
“Infrastructure week” has been a running joke for the last four years of the Trump administration, which lacked the focus and then the votes to get it…
Magazine - Your Land
A queen and a king
It was bound to happen: Chess is having a moment. The Queen’s Gambit, a 1983 novel about an orphan girl who becomes a chess prodigy in her…
Magazine - Life & Arts
The masculine image of Sean Connery
From the moment the words “Bond, James Bond” left the mouth of Sean Connery in the debut Bond movie, Dr. No (1962), moviegoers were never in doubt…
Beltway Confidential
Election Day distraction
Time for some “self-care.” A survey of 2,000 adults in the United States found that going into the election, 55% expected that it would be the most…
Business
I guess God isn’t a Republican?
Think back to one year ago. America was at peace. American troops were coming home from the hot spots around the world. Incomes and jobs were skyrocketing,…
Magazine - Obituary
Izzat Ibrahim al Douri, 1942-2020
In Saddam Hussein’s paunchy, khaki-clad, mostly gray-haired inner circle, one of his ubiquitous Baath Party deputies always stood out from the crowd: Izzat Ibrahim al Douri, who…
Magazine - Washington Briefing
Trump legal challenges muddy water for Biden victory
The turning point was Arizona. When Fox News called the Sun Belt State, which had only voted for a Democratic presidential candidate once since 1948, for Joe…