Beltway Confidential
Politics as a spectator sport
The ratings are in, even if some election returns are still outstanding. Those seemingly omniscient folks at Nielsen have informed us that some 56.9 million people tuned…
November 17, 2020
Magazine - Life & Arts
Springing for cancer
“You can get away with anything,” an older friend of mine once told me, “if you’re wearing an expensive watch.” What he meant was that people rapidly…
Magazine - Your Land
Word of the Week: ‘Schizophrenic’
You want to hear something really whacked? Take a look at what the AP Stylebook has now ruled unacceptable for use by journalists and writers who use…
Magazine - Columnists
Dire predictions about the Republican Party were wrong, again
For a few years now, we’ve been told the Republican Party is in a state of long-term decline. Young people reject the party in droves, women are…
Magazine - Washington Briefing
The Biden doctrine: ‘Goodbye, America First. Hello, multilateralism’
One legacy of President Trump’s “America First” foreign policy is the clear message to the rest of the world that no deal with the United States can…
Magazine - Your Land
Veterans Day 2020: Honoring our heroes from afar
Veterans Day was different this year. Many communities use this day to celebrate and honor their veterans by putting on local parades and hosting neighborhood-wide potlucks. But…
Magazine - Your Land
Good night, boomer
While Joe Biden is getting ready for his new job, his old buddies are hanging it up as the baby boom retirement wave is beginning to hit…
Business
Commercial real estate in tailspin from pandemic
The pandemic threw commercial real estate into a tailspin last spring as employees and their bosses abandoned offices to work from home and retailers shuttered their stores…
Infrastructure
Transportation ballot initiatives did well on Election Day, but not in Portland
In the Nov. 3 elections, voters surprised infrastructure experts by passing the vast majority of local public transportation funding items put before them. The big exception to…
Beltway Confidential
America is tied in knots about tying the knot
Trends on marriage in America appear to have become one of those (Champagne) glass-half-full propositions. The empty part of the glass is a continued decline in the…