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John F. Kennedy and the Race to the Moon by John M. Logsdon Palgrave Macmillan, 291 pp. The 1961 baseball season opened on a damp and cold Monday afternoon in [...]

Marine Major General Charles F. Bolden has made a career of taking on daunting assignments. After growing up black in segregated South Carolina, Bolden spent his teenage years badgering congressmen [...]

In David Plouffe's campaign memoir, The Audacity to Win, Barack Obama's victory happens the way explosions happen in the more lyrical action movies: there is a moment of silent suspended [...]

My favorite bar in Washington is the Raven Grill, a shoebox-shaped (and -sized) dive in the city's Mount Pleasant neighborhood. The second half of the bar's official name is a [...]

It's a drizzly spring evening on Capitol Hill, and an Indiana congressman has placed himself in an unenviable spot: between Representative Henry A. Waxman and the tobacco industry. At issue [...]

Last May, Conor Friedersdorf, a twenty-eight-year-old recent graduate of NYU's Journalism School, decided he was going to save conservative journalism. His manifesto, which appeared under the title 'Electric Kool-Aid Conservatism' [...]

In March 2001, U.S. Archivist John W. Carlin received a letter from Alberto Gonzales, then counsel to the newly inaugurated president George W. Bush. It concerned an important deadline that [...]

Ketchikan, the fifth largest city in Alaska, is situated on a narrow strip of land, eight miles long and seven blocks wide, wedged between the waters of the Tongass Narrows […]

Crude World: The Violent Twilight of Oil by Peter Maass Alfred A. Knopf, 288 pp. The world's first oil well was drilled 150 years ago on a farm two miles [...]

Methland: The Death and Life of an American Small Town by Nick Reding Bloomsbury, 272 pp. In an early scene in Nick Reding's Methland: The Death and Life of an [...]

Barack Obama's acceptance speech will always be inseparable in my memory from the rasp of a blown out subwoofer. The sound came from the open window of a black Cadillac [...]

This article explores the move of U.S. Representative Henry A. Waxman to pursue his bill that would place cigarettes under the regulatory authority of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). It also discusses a more industry-friendly alternative pressed by Republican Steve Buyer: the creation of a agency called the Tobacco Harm Reduction. The support received by the bill from legislators and from the executive branch is assessed.

The article presents information on conservative journalism in the U.S. It offers a brief overview of a manifesto by journalism graduate Conor Friedersdorf about conservative journalism. It describes the Web site Culture11 and its contribution to the issue of conservative journalism. It also discusses how conservatism can properly push back against a popular culture that Americans do not really understand.

The article reports on the problems associated with the dependence of the state of Alaska on U.S. federal subsidies. The author claims that the Gravina bridge construction project in Ketchikan reflects the enormity of the subsidy per capita, which was more than $17,000 per Ketchikan Gateway Borough resident. Compounding the problem is the investigation into the involvement of Alaska Senator Theodore Fulton Stevens in several corrupt practices.

The article describes a celebration of Barack Obama's election-night victory on U Street in northeast Washington. According to the author, Obama's acceptance speech will always be inseparable in his memory from the rasp of a blown-out subwoofer. Passengers reached out open windows to high-five pedestrians or stood with their bodies half out of sunroofs, whooping like high school seniors in a limo on prom night. The author says that the crowd they met on 17th Street looked like they were in a nocturnal Fourth of July parade.