August 8, 2023 Issue

Digital Edition

FEATURE

The riddle of JD Vance

✪ Tim Scott’s intriguing but tricky path to the GOP nomination

✪ Rep. Kevin Kiley warns against the California-fication of America

by Brad Polumbo

Your Land

★★★

For missing children, Amber Alert sees no color

by Quin Hillyer

★★★

Barbie can’t tell you if you need to dump your boyfriend

by Madeline Fry Schultz

★★★

Stealing trust

by Timothy P. Carney

★★★

Illinois’s botched plan to fix its law enforcement crisis

by Kaylee McGhee White

Business

BUSINESS

New banking regulations could sink the economy

by Stephen Moore and

BUSINESS

Due deference? The Supreme Court will scrutinize officials’ power to impose regulations

by Kaelan Deese

Letter From The Editor

Washington Briefing

These eight states will likely decide who wins the 2024 presidential election

by Hailey Bullis

Would Senate Democrats take up a Biden impeachment pushed by House Republicans?

What in the world is going on with UFOs?

by Jamie McIntyre

Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds to interview several 2024 Republican presidential hopefuls

Online safety bills mean well to protect children but may create new problems

by Jessica Melugin

On Ukraine, a hawkish Biden and some skeptical GOP lawmakers mark role reversal

by Max Thornberry

The Columnists

Dan Hannan

Even out of office, Trump is wrecking America’s standing in the world

Dominic Green

Can you feel the Ken-ergy?

Timothy P. Carney

Fight crime, and poverty, with civil society

Life & Arts

A long battle to get my friend to safety in America

The modern American history of Orthodox Judaism’s thriving

by Daniel Ross Goodman

A playlist is no match for a mixtape as a romantic gesture

Think you know your Gibsons from your Sidecars? The Downtime Cocktail Quiz

The O.C. premiered 20 years ago. Was it the beginning of an era of TV or the end of one?

by Derek Robertson

Sergei Loznitsa’s new documentary asks if Allied bombing in World War II deserves another thought

by Gustav Jönsson

All the generational stereotypes are wrong, except that big one

by Katherine Dee

Accommodations for dictators: New books look at Stalin’s hotel and Hitler’s brothel

by Malcolm Forbes

More from the Magazine

New banking regulations could sink the economy

Obituary

Paul Reubens, 1952-2023