Beltway Confidential
For the clubbers, a place of their own
It’s an old downtown conundrum: How do you let the nightlife industry thrive without turning your community into Las Vegas? In Rhode Island, it’s always been an…
September 17, 2019
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RIP, iPhone as status symbol: 2007 – 2019
Since June 29, 2007, few items have inspired more considerable envy than the latest iPhone. The touchscreen, the retina display, the selfie camera, the 6.9 mm thickness,…
Beltway Confidential
Yellow lights for both parties in North Carolina special election results
Yes, I suppose President Trump’s Monday night rally in Fayetteville, North Carolina, did push Republican nominee Dan Bishop across the finish line in his 51-49% victory over…
Editorials
On bulbs, Democrats offer dim demagoguery
Democrats are trying to have it both ways on lightbulbs. They declare that lightbulbs are a trifle, but also that it’s imperative the federal government regulate them.…
Columnists
Donald Trump is in serious danger of losing in 2020
Having been burned the last time around, pundits may be wary of saying so, but the truth is President Trump is in serious danger of losing his…
Columnists
A working-class party will be a mostly nonwhite party
Donald Trump in 2016 elicited eye-rolls from K Street Republicans and chuckles from self-satisfied liberals when he promised to make the Republican Party a working-class party. Then…
Columnists
Whether gun control passes depends on who versus what
With tragic mass shootings in El Paso, Dayton, and Odessa all happening in August, Congress is returning to session with renewed calls for action on guns. Of…
Editorials
We won the winnable war in Afghanistan. It’s time to come home
The Trump administration’s foreign policy is in turmoil. National security adviser John Bolton has resigned or been fired — or both — and President Trump is taking…
Columnists
Trump and his GOP challengers
Mark Sanford, the former representative and governor of South Carolina, has now joined former Rep. Joe Walsh and former Massachusetts Gov. Bill Weld in challenging President Trump…