August 11, 2020 Issue

Digital Edition

FEATURE

Protection racket

by Wayne Laugesen

✪ Covington’s lesson

by

✪ Fighting for the children

by Nicole Russell

✪ The science of anti-Semitism

by Melissa Langsam Braunstein

✪ Party music

Your Land

★★★

The mushroom cloud in the rear window

by Timothy P. Carney

★★★

Working from home? Or hardly working?

by Kaylee McGhee White

★★★

Word of the Week: ‘Technical’

by Nicholas Clairmont

★★★

Unimpressed with the press

by Timothy P. Carney

★★★

When cancel culture trumps Native American culture

by Kaylee McGhee White

Business

BUSINESS

Millions of small businesses are shuttering due to the coronavirus

BUSINESS

Trial lawyers are looking for a $100B coronavirus jackpot

by Stephen Moore

Letter From The Editor

Washington Briefing

Lawmakers hopeful billing legislation emerges from pandemic’s shadow

by Cassidy Morrison

States confront significant service cutbacks as Congress debates aid

by Nihal Krishan

Democrats play hardball on new coronavirus aid bill

by Susan Ferrechio

Trump eyes executive action in battle against coronavirus

by W. James Antle III

Public pressure on climate pits oil companies against EPA in losing battle on methane

Teachers unions want billions for the ‘homework gap,’ but chasm may not be that wide

The Columnists

Fred Barnes

Four hunches about the 2020 election

Michael Barone

With his veep choice, Biden must face the odds

Robert Woodson

The Left has abandoned any pretext that black lives matter

Kristen Soltis Anderson

Even if 2020 is a Democratic wave, there may be progress for GOP women

Life & Arts

Code name: Malotru

by J. Oliver Conroy

Seat of liberty

by Jeremy Beaman

Whit Stillman and the death of the WASP movie

by Peter Tonguette

The Fauci fizz

The original populists

by

What happened to baseball wit?

by

Damn the torpedoes

by Daniel Ross Goodman

Our men in Moscow

by Washington Examiner

More from the Magazine

Millions of small businesses are shuttering due to the coronavirus

Obituary

John Hume, 1937-2020