Washington Examiner / Magazine
September 22, 2020 Issue
September 22, 2020 Print Edition
Cover Story
Nancy Pelosi’s Reign of Error
Nancy Pelosi made news late last month, and not in a good way. She was caught on a security camera having her hair done at a San Francisco salon that has been closed to the public during the coronavirus lockdown. When confronted with the footage, she did not apologize for the do-as-I-say-not-as-I-do impression, but rather expressed outrage at the salon owner for setting her up. If you have followed Pelosi’s career over the past 15 or so years, the whole affair was hardly a surprise. Pelosi is one of the most unpopular figures in the last decade of American politics. According to RealClearPolitics, her average favorability rating stands at just 38%, compared to a 52% unfavorable rating — numbers that are worse than President Trump's at the time of writing. Pelosi’s numbers have been this...

True stories you can’t stop reading.

Your Land

Supermarket steep
Magazine - Your Land
Supermarket steep
Back in March and April, it made sense that groceries cost more. You were stockpiling. Your neighbors were...
Losing faith in our government
Magazine - Your Land
Losing faith in our government
Do you trust the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention? Many people don’t, according to a recent survey...
Word of the Week: ‘Contagion’
Magazine - Your Land
Word of the Week: ‘Contagion’
I was surprised and amused to find an entry on the proper spelling of “cancel, canceled, canceling, cancellation”...
Gun frenzy
Magazine - Your Land
Gun frenzy
In mid-March, the Pennsylvania State Police’s background check system crashed — not because of a technological error per...
Magazine - Your Land
The NFL’s ratings take a knee
The National Football League has been the heartbeat of the United States for years. It’s a heartbeat that’s slowing down now. It’s not flatlining: The NFL is still...

Business

Middle-class America will get crushed by the return of the Obama-Biden pro-regulation agenda
Business
Middle-class America will get crushed by the return of the Obama-Biden pro-regulation agenda
The Biden Democrats are rewriting history, celebrating the Obama record on the economy as if 2008-2016...
Trump payroll tax delay plan finds few, if any, supporters
Business
Trump payroll tax delay plan finds few, if any, supporters
Many, if not all, employers are declining the payroll tax deferral plan that President Trump made...

Washington Briefing

Healthcare
What is a ‘randomized controlled trial’?
Chances are in the last six months, you have heard or read the term “randomized controlled trial.” Once...
Energy and Environment
It isn’t only climate change making the Western wildfires worse
The West is ablaze, and it’s sparking a political debate over whether poor forest management or warming temperatures...
Magazine - Washington Briefing
There’s a formula to writing a blockbuster White House insider account
First, leave. Ideally, be fired in a storm of tweets and a cloud of controversy. Second, deliver a...
Letter from editor
‘White supremacy’ was a leftist scam
When facts are stranger than fiction, pundits will say, “You can’t make this stuff up.” But actually, you can make...
Magazine
Should Alito stay or go?
Through the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision, the 1857 Dred Scott case, and back to the beginning of the republic,...

True stories you can't stop reading — subscribe for full access.