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Word of the Week: ‘Net zero’
Google has a policy to ban advertisements that appear in searches if they contain content that, according to a Google representative who spoke to Reuters, “states climate…
November 15, 2022
Healthcare
Healthcare on the ballot
Voters’ seemingly split decision in the 2022 midterm elections has big health policy implications. The Nov. 8 voting likely gave House Republicans a majority, while control of…
Economy
The new face of Italian populism
ROME — In the last week of October 1922, Mussolini marched on Rome and took control of Italy. In the last week of October 2022, Giorgia Meloni…
Magazine - Washington Briefing
Midterm elections leave Biden’s path forward with Congress uncertain
The day after the midterm elections, it was unclear whether President Joe Biden’s path to legislative success had gotten surprisingly easier or considerably more difficult. That’s because,…
Business
Netflix’s kind rewind on Blockbuster
“Isn’t it ironic,” a character in the new Netflix series Blockbuster asks, “that our small business taking a stand against a big corporation … is actually a…
Beltway Confidential
Kevin McCarthy’s poisoned chalice
When U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson quit, he handed a chalice full of poison to Liz Truss. She took the tiniest sip in history, just 45 days…
Magazine - Life & Arts
Demons in America
David Cleveland may be the most interesting as well as the most unfashionable novelist working in the United States. His latest, Gods of Deception, is a sympathetic…
Infrastructure
The equity that never sleeps
Many New Yorkers had a nasty surprise this Election Day. I don’t mean on election night, after the votes were counted — I mean in the voting…
Healthcare
So scary I could V.O.M.I.T.
A neurologist once told me that he and his colleagues have an acronym to describe what happens when a patient who does not need an MRI nevertheless…
Magazine - Life & Arts
Was WWI inevitable?
In his magisterial history of the Peloponnesian Wars, the late classicist Donald Kagan sought to counter the popular conception of Thucydides’ history of that period, per which…