September 10, 2018

A vinyl pressing gone missing—and greatly missed.

No amount of vetting can predict how Brett Kavanaugh, or any other nominee, will perform as a Supreme Court justice

"Nothing is inevitable here. Americans never quit. We never surrender. We never hide from history. We make history.”

Beijing's crimes should elicit world condemnation.

Trump’s fabrications notwithstanding, voter fraud is a thing.

Lanny Davis, Michael Cohen, and the Steele dossier.

Anyone inclined to believe that social media have hardened our public discourse will have found ample evidence last week, when John McCain died.

Deputy attorney general Rod Rosenstein made one of the worst decisions of the Trump administration when he named Robert Mueller “special counsel” to oversee the investigation of collusion between Donald Trump and Russia in the 2016 election.

How the late senator was like Henry Clay.

Colorado turns up the heat on America’s most controversial baker.

He turns right for Downing Street.

With an eye toward helping its native sons (and daughter), California moves its presidential primary.

It may be remembered for its short-term savvy and long-term failure to meet expectations.

Under Pompeo, the State Department is getting its swagger back

The deeper issue in the Kavanaugh confirmation fight

Robin Leach, 1941-2018.

Scott Walker is, once again, in a very tight race for reelection in Wisconsin.

The late senator was the kind of man the Founders had in mind.

Ann Marlowe visits the Pilotta museum complex—one of Italy’s overlooked gems.

Ethan Epstein on imagining nuclear war with North Korea.

Alan Jacobs on how Silicon Valley came to dominate our vision of the future.

Jay Weiser on the forgotten industrialist who led the great silver rush.

On the topic of studies and premature deaths, a new report from the British medical journal the Lancet says that no amount of alcohol is safe for your overall health. Worldwide, alcohol increases the risk of premature death for both men and women and is responsible for a full tenth of all deaths.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the socialist neophyte who won a New York Democratic congressional primary in June, is young and attractive and has a compelling personal story. She likes to remind the public of her working-class roots, and rightly so. “The restaurant I used to work at is closing its…

Hearings on Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh are set to begin in early September, so expect several rounds of breathless revelations about the man’s past. Consider an AP story this week headlined “At Yale, Kavanaugh Stayed Out of Debates at a Time of Many.” The story’s lead: “It was the 1980s…

Great news for lovers of cardboard animals. Boxes of Nabisco animal crackers will no longer feature images of cartoon animals in circus cages. Beginning this week, the animals will appear roaming free: The zebra, elephant, lion, giraffe, and gorilla have escaped their cages and are enjoying…

In the runup to the passage of last year’s tax reform bill, readers may recall, former Treasury secretary Larry Summers predicted that 10,000 people would die every year as a direct result of the bill’s passage. He had in mind the bill’s provision repealing the individual insurance mandate…