Business
Finger-pointing over Uber hack
A major breach of the IT systems at Uber allowed hackers to post on the ride-sharing company’s Slack channel and allegedly gain access to source code. On…
September 27, 2022
Business
Saudi Arabia’s LIV Golf is just more big-time sports as usual
Throughout 2022, LIV Golf, underwritten by Saudi Arabia’s $620 billion Public Investment Fund, has battled with the PGA Tour for the services of the best golfers in…
Economy
Interest rate hikes may bite Biden
Inflation is going to pack a one-two punch for voters and consumers ahead of the midterm elections. The first is inflation itself, manifested in the rise in…
Magazine - Life & Arts
Was Kafka a great visual artist?
“The fact that Kafka the artist has played a distinctly subordinate role to Kafka the writer in our historical consciousness is attributable at least in part to…
Magazine - Life & Arts
The Woman King is fit to be deposed
The idea of women warriors has been with us for thousands of years. Homer established this notion as part of the bedrock of Western civilization when he…
Magazine - Life & Arts
John Donne’s hungry life
The title of Katherine Rundell’s biography of the Renaissance poet and divine, John Donne, comes from his sermons, which few people read today. In a funeral sermon…
Beltway Confidential
Where are the remote workers?
How do you get to work? If you put on your slippers and walk to your balcony chair or kitchen table, congratulations on being part of the…
Magazine - Life & Arts
Plodding through Middle-earth
Peter Jackson’s forays into Middle-earth yielded one very fine movie (The Fellowship of the Ring), one flat-out masterpiece (The Two Towers), and one worthy if overlong denouement…
Magazine - Washington Briefing
Republicans say Gen. Mark Milley overstepped authority to thwart Trump
If Republicans are successful in wresting control of Congress from Democrats in the November midterm elections, Army Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff,…
Immigration
NYC pits homeless against immigrants
New York’s immigrant crisis continues to grind on. Over 13,000 “asylum-seekers” from the border have arrived since May, with close to 10,000 now housed in the local…