Columnists
Civil wars are too easy to start — just ask the Spaniards
The body of Jose Antonio Primo de Rivera, who founded Spain’s fascist party in 1933, is being exhumed. For 63 years, his carcass occupied the place of…
October 18, 2022
Beltway Confidential
Inflation’s gut punch to Democrats’ election hopes
Watchers of the looming midterm elections could see the whites of Democrats’ eyes even before the Bureau of Labor Statistics unwrapped September’s dreadful 8.2% headline consumer price…
Crime
Dirty money, dirty politics, and Hunter Biden
There might finally be enough pieces of the Hunter Biden puzzle for the authorities and Congress to put together the full picture of the legal case against…
Foreign Policy
The end of the post-9/11 era
On Sept. 26, 2022, Yusuf al Qaradawi died at age 96 in Qatar. The spiritual leader of the Muslim Brotherhood, Qaradawi was the most well-known Muslim cleric…
Business
Rocky Mountain high spending
It’s not surprising that Rep. David Trone, a Maryland Democrat who made a fortune in the liquor store business before turning to politics, is spending big on…
Business
Economic woes deflating Biden include a tumbling stock market
Inflation is the biggest economic issue dominating the midterm election campaign and making Democrats nervous, but the stock market’s performance isn’t too far behind. The Dow Jones…
Beltway Confidential
Cool Hand shake
It has been three months since a spate of stories announced that handshakes, supposedly banished forever due to COVID-19, were making a comeback. Well, now the comeback…
Magazine - Washington Briefing
Native American issues in Congress set to take on higher profile
A pair of conflicting Supreme Court decisions over the past few years about how much authority the state of Oklahoma has to prosecute some crimes committed on…
Magazine - Life & Arts
Is Hemingway’s Paris lifestyle still possible?
If you were asked to picture life as an expatriate in Paris, your mind is likely to drift to one of two images, at once similar and…
Magazine - Obituary
Angela Lansbury, 1925-2022
If Gertrude Stein famously deemed Susan B. Anthony “the mother of us all” in her famous opera of that name, perhaps we can agree that Angela Lansbury…