Columnists
Why is Irish America so anti-British?
It was a brief but revealing moment. As the results came in, a television correspondent asked a jubilant Joe Biden whether he had anything to say to…
November 24, 2020
Magazine - Features
Year of the Republican woman
Nine short years ago, Kat Cammack found herself homeless. This was due in large part to the Obama-era “Home Affordable Modification Program,” a now-defunct failed loan program…
Magazine - Obituary
Roger Jepsen, 1928-2020
One afternoon, in March 1970, a veteran Midwestern senator rose from his seat to defend a Supreme Court nominee accused of being second-rate. “Even if he were…
Finance
A Failing Industry
For a certain kind of television program, the gears and levers of the professional workplace are the instruments of drama. With what could Succession fill an hour…
Magazine - Features
The swing senator
Susan Collins was as good as gone. The Maine Republican seeking a fifth Senate term in what is still mostly a blue state appeared likely to be…
Business
Paris climate treaty puts America last
Here we are in the midst of a once-in-a-half-century pandemic, with the economy flattened, millions of people unemployed, and unrest on the streets of our cities. And…
Magazine - Life & Arts
What to drink on Thanksgiving
Americans don’t like to be ordered around. We have a long and storied history of scamming the taxman, smuggling liquor, and otherwise making anti-government mischief. And that…
Magazine - Life & Arts
In cold blood
The Irish writer John Banville, considered one of the world’s best living novelists and a possible contender for the Nobel Prize for Literature, is, in fact, two…
Magazine - Washington Briefing
Trump sees money and 2024 in coronavirus vaccine success
The emails arrive on an almost hourly basis from the Trump campaign. They are part victory lap and part fundraising drive, throwing around all-caps as they celebrate…
Economy
The Great Progressive Betrayal
Much of the post-election hand-wringing about Democrats driving typically liberal voters into the hands of a Trump-led Republican Party has focused on where that effect was most…