Entertainment
1982 forever onward
The Future Was Now: Madmen, Mavericks, and the Epic Sci-Fi Summer of 1982; By Chris Nashawaty, Flatiron; 289 pp., $29.99 As we approach the dying days of a…
November 13, 2024
Trump wins, Kamala Harris's final points, Trump unchained on Ukraine, Masterpiece cake baker's religious liberty fight, following the science on transgenderism.
Magazine
The burden of command
Few events in U.S. history are as romanticized as the Civil War. Many of its figures seem to be cast from marble, immune from the “picklocks of…
Magazine
Democracy in America (2024)
The following is a more-or-less verbatim transcript of a conversation I overheard between two people in line to vote. I record it here for future historians who…
Entertainment
Love once was blind, but now it sees
The seventh season of the reality show Love Is Blind promised to deliver a Washington, D.C., experience. In a sense, it did. In typical fashion for the…
Entertainment
A history of R.E.M.
R.E.M. grew out of the vibrant music scene of Athens, Georgia, in 1980. Lead singer Michael Stipe, a recent transplant from the St. Louis suburbs, was taking…
Beltway Confidential
So, when is George Clooney writing his next op-ed?
George Clooney is a lot of things. He is a successful actor, director, business owner, philanthropist, and activist. He’s worth hundreds of millions of dollars, according to…
Education
Phoning it in: Toothless phone bans reveal the new education class divide
Quick, what issue unites Ron DeSantis and Gavin Newsom? You’d be hard-pressed to find many topics that the conservative stalwart and his progressive counterpart agree on, but…