Magazine - Life & Arts
College football is tops
AUSTIN, Texas — When I arrived at the University of Texas’ football stadium, I was struck by three things. It’s a huge stadium with a capacity of…
September 17, 2019
Magazine - Features
Even the king can’t own ‘Taco Tuesday’
“In prose,” scolded George Orwell in his masterful essay “Politics and the English Language,” “the worst thing you can do with words is to surrender them.” Considering…
Magazine - Features
Warren makes her move
The top tier of the Democratic field of presidential candidates is three deep: Joe Biden, Bernie Sanders, and Elizabeth Warren. Warren has the potential to make a…
Magazine - Business
Native American tribes get in on craft liquor boom as ban lifts
The land was purchased, the site work complete. Architectural drawings rendered and revised, then revised again. The Confederated Tribes of the Chehalis Reservation in western Washington was…
Magazine - Columnists
The crackers and frackers could hold the keys to 2020
MONACA, Pennsylvania — All Darrin Kelly wanted for the energy workers in Western Pennsylvania was that the Democratic presidential hopefuls would talk to them before going to…
Magazine - Features
Comedy’s last stand
It was one of the most unusual impressions from a comic legend who doesn’t generally do them at all. But it marked an important moment in the…
Magazine - Your Land
Word of the Week: ‘Crazy-making’
The pessimistic premise of the Word of the Week is that there is a giant posse of self-deputized language policers organizing themselves around the idea that by…
Magazine - Life & Arts
Great stinking balls of fire
Some people can tell it’s fall by the turning of leaves from green to an earthy rainbow of yellows and oranges. Others know when the deer get…
Magazine - Washington Briefing
Trump eyes a tax break before 2020 election
As August ended and markets faltered, President Trump vowed that if he’s reelected with a GOP Congress, he will pass major middle-class tax cuts. But with signs…
Business
U.S.-China rift gets a relationship status
The Trump administration’s trade policy with China has gradually come to be associated with the phrase “decoupling.” The emergence of the phrase, which is generally used to…