This magazine is a double issue covering Aug. 13 and Aug. 20. I love getting a new magazine to readers each week, but I’m going to enjoy the break, and will return refreshed to get the Aug. 27 issue ready for you. Maybe it’s because I’m in a sunny vacation mood, but whatever the reason, I’m going to take this opportunity to boast about the Washington Examiner and thank you for your part in its success. We love what we do, but without you, there is no us.
If you’re reading this in print, you’re a subscriber, which means you’re part of a corps that has grown by more than 30% since New Year’s Day. If you’re reading this online, you’re one of a group that has doubled in size in the past year. The Washington Examiner is advancing on all fronts and is now the biggest Washington-based conservative publication, with nearly double the readers of its nearest rival.
Its influence is commensurately greater, and that’s not just due to scale. It’s also because we have a consistent conservative worldview rather than a partisan agenda. So in the lamentable internecine conflict that is today’s politics, we’re neither reflexively Trumpy nor purblind #resistance fighters. If you already know what a publication will say, there’s no point reading it, so we prefer to stick to our values than to particular politicians. It’s more interesting to do, and we hope it’s more interesting to read that way.
It’s been a joy to publish some of the best political writers in America, including Kevin Williamson, Mollie Hemingway, James Kirchick, Andrew McCarthy, John O’Sullivan, plus many more. And that doesn’t even include our unmatched staff writers; Byron York’s column this week is a superb analysis of the El Paso’s shooter’s manifesto, which few of the president’s critics appear to have read properly or sans ideological blinkers; Fred Barnes wrote our cover story, Blast From The Past about Joe Biden, who is running for president as the ghost of the old Democratic Party, and is being blasted by his ghostbuster left-wing rivals for not being woke enough.
We have a raft of improvements and new content coming in your direction and we’ll be ready to tell you about them later in the fall. We’re confident you’ll then find the magazine even more to your taste, and packed with a yet more varied and extensive array of articles that suit you.
In the meantime, there’s a lot for you this week. Eric Felten celebrates and laments the use of great jazz as busker repellent, Noah Rothman punctures the pretensions of Team Obama in exile, James Antle unpacks the spectacle of Democrats who once touted Obamacare as the cure for America’s healthcare ills now dismissing it as no better than a Band-Aid, and Tyler Grant looks at China’s political earthquake, with its epicenter in Hong Kong.
Enjoy your reading, and thank you for being part of the Washington Examiner!
