Economy
Beijing plays hardball with soft power
United States military power may continue to predominate, but American soft power is in grave danger of losing its primacy to China’s. The Chinese influence campaign doesn’t…
November 5, 2019
Healthcare
Social media, the problem and the solution
Young adults are experiencing a kind of mental health crisis. Higher rates of loneliness, depression, and anxiety consume millennials, and social media is often considered the culprit.…
Magazine - Your Land
No more 9-to-5
In 1965, perfume salesman Alan Stillman opened the first TGI Fridays. As the founding myth goes, he thought up the name of the now-ubiquitous restaurant chain when…
Education
Johnny can’t read
A record number of U.S. elementary and middle school students don’t know how to read. Two-thirds of fourth and eighth graders in the public school system failed…
Magazine - Columnists
The death of policy
In Washington, Democrats had time on their hands with Republicans in control of the White House, the Senate, and, until the midterm elections, the House. They could…
Magazine - Business
Trump’s promise to revive American manufacturing could mean trouble in swing states
Days before Donald Trump would secure the presidency with the help of voters from Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania, he made a promise to supporters: to restore manufacturing…
Magazine - Washington Briefing
Watered down language in the defense bill reignites F-35 debate
The removal of four words in the upcoming defense budget bill has rekindled a fierce debate over the Pentagon’s most expensive weapons program. Democratic Sen. Dick Durbin…
Magazine - Washington Briefing
Tech company wants to help evict bad-acting NYC tenants
A smart intercom company has offered New York City landlords a solution to help evict bad-acting tenants, allowing them to raise rents where laws and regulations would…
Beltway Confidential
What Trump says and what he does
First reactions are important, and my first reaction to the transcript of President Trump’s July 25 phone call with Ukraine’s President Zelensky was, “It looks bad.” Others…
Foreign Policy
The sacred vote
I recently visited my old hometown of Dysart, Iowa (population 1,379), to meet my adorable new niece and learn about hunting in preparation for a book I’m…