Beltway Confidential
The original handmaid’s tale
Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale is back in the news thanks to reporters and liberal voices who imagine that the Catholic Judge Amy Coney Barrett, and a…
September 29, 2020
Magazine - Life & Arts
The secret to everything
There is no way to start this column without sounding like a jerk, but here goes: A few years ago, at the end of a happy dinner…
Magazine - Life & Arts
True grit
Alone: The Arctic (History Channel/Netflix) Jordan Jonas has had a successful day of trapping. His snares caught a whopping four rabbits, which he brings back to his…
Business
Forty years after deregulation, the commercial rail industry thrives
Forty years ago this October, Congress had a hard choice to make. Domestic freight rail was on the ropes. Clifford Winston is an economist at the Brookings…
Healthcare
Social distancing measures have helped scale back flu outbreaks
Social distancing measures to slow the spread of the coronavirus have limited influenza outbreaks, giving infectious disease experts hope that the United States will also avoid a…
Magazine - Washington Briefing
Trump’s year of living dangerously: How the US came scarily close to war with North Korea in 2017
In the first year of the Trump presidency, Defense Secretary Jim Mattis would sleep in his gym clothes to save critical minutes in the event that he…
Business
House passes bipartisan legislation to set federal Internet of Things security standards
The House of Representatives has passed a bipartisan bill requiring that all Internet of Things devices purchased by the government meet minimum security requirements. The Senate will…
Magazine - Your Land
Engaging the electorate
People are highly engaged with the 2020 presidential election — so much so that a record number of respondents told a recent survey that this year’s results…
Magazine - Features
The Supreme Court fight of our lives
President Trump has never been known to back away from a political fight, and choosing to nominate a replacement for Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg immediately was in…
Magazine - Washington Briefing
Team Trump hopes to capitalize on SCOTUS battle; lots of lids for Biden
Trump campaign: Democrats could overreach on reaction to new Supreme Court justice Democrats are going to be furious with any Supreme Court appointment before the election, so…