Magazine - Life & Arts
The skinny suit is dead. Good riddance
Ben Platt presented a startling image on the cover of a recent issue of Washington’s Capitol File magazine. It wasn’t the fact that the singer-actor was standing…
November 12, 2019
Economy
Service worker union looks to limit the fallout of the rise of the gig economy
Technological change has always been a challenge for organized labor and not just for workers in manufacturing or high-tech. The service and hospitality industries are struggling to…
Healthcare
American farmers ask for mental health help in face of economic stress
Randy Roecker had just finished building a new state-of-the-art dairy barn on his family farm when the Great Recession hit. The facility was part of his efforts…
Magazine - Your Land
Word of the Week: ‘X’
At the California Institute for the Arts, there is an Office of Alumnx and Family Engagement. Click around at some university websites, and you can find more…
Foreign Policy
At the Pentagon, Esper and Milley adapt to Trump’s intuitive and impulsive style
Things are getting back to normal at the Pentagon, the new normal that is — a world in which no military plan or policy survives its first…
Magazine - Life & Arts
Uruguay’s detective of despair
A critic with the time and inclination could make his name proposing an epidemiological model of world literature, with disease vectors representing the way themes and stylistic…
Magazine - Life & Arts
Love on the farm
I do a lot of writing in coffee shops. When visiting my old hometown of Dysart, Iowa, I frequent KE Black Mercantile, a kitchen store and cafe…
Columnists
Testimony: How Trump helped Ukraine
One notable and little-reported conclusion emerging from the House Democratic impeachment proceedings is a consensus among some foreign policy professionals that President Trump’s Ukraine policy has been…
Columnists
The Trump-era realignment is a death sentence for the GOP
Gov. Matt Bevin’s loss should send a message to embattled Republicans in Trump Country: President Trump is not going to save you if you’re drowning. Republicans’ loss…