May 16, 2023 Issue

Digital Edition

FEATURE

The once and future monarchy

by Dominic Green

✪ Glenn Youngkin on the secrets to Republican success in Virginia

✪ Parent involvement matters for student success

by Frederick M. Hess

✪ What policymakers and pundits miss when they call for a ‘new Marshall Plan’

by

Your Land

★★★

If you can perform surgery on fetuses, then maybe they have value after all

by Madeline Fry Schultz

★★★

California teachers unions strike over social issues while students get left behind

by Conn Carroll

★★★

Welcome to the sideshow: Rowdy motorcyclists stall San Francisco’s Bay Bridge

by Zachary Faria

★★★

Another example of botched priorities in Washington

by Kaylee McGhee White

Business

BUSINESS

Savings rate: After a slew of bank failures, is the worst turmoil in the industry behind us?

by Zachary Halaschak

Letter From The Editor

Washington Briefing

President Joe Biden’s mortgage adjustment plan brings critics home

by Haisten Willis

Will an emphasis on transportation lead to the Washington governor’s mansion?

US air defense system sent to Ukraine is not your father’s anti-missile missile

by Jamie McIntyre

DeSantis set for Nevada return to headline Basque fry GOP event

Global health says coronavirus pandemic is over amid virus origin questions

by Jessica Dobrinsky Harris

Big Tech couldn’t target children online with impunity, under bipartisan Senate bill

by Samantha-Jo Roth

The Columnists

Dan Hannan

The Arab Spring has ended in failure

Byron York

How does a president most Americans don’t believe is fit to serve run for reelection?

Timothy P. Carney

After another high-profile media scandal, maybe the industry should revisit the ‘Pence Rule’

Life & Arts

Traffic: Genius, Rivalry, and Delusion in the Billion-Dollar Race To Go Viral by Ben Smith reviewed

by Derek Robertson

How Finnish action film Sisu sums up our golden movie moment

by Nicholas Clairmont

Bob Odenkirk plays it down the middle in the TV series Lucky Hank

by Daniel Ross Goodman

A burning dissent from overbearing environmental policy in the kitchen

The sordid history of ‘earned media’ advertising

Review of The Age of Palmer: Pro Golf in the 1960s, Its Greatest Era by Patrick Hand

by Michael Taube

Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia by David Graeber reviewed

by Michael M. Rosen

The ‘Blurred Lines’ moral panic, 10 years later

by Washington Examiner

More from the Magazine

Savings rate: After a slew of bank failures, is the worst turmoil in the industry behind us?

Obituary

Heather Armstrong, 1975-2023