On affordability, Democrats have the stronger hand. They just need to stop folding. The winter issue of the Washington Monthly is here, featuring @glastris.bsky.social, @jrakove.bsky.social, @alexbronzini.bsky.social, @billscher.bsky.social, @gooznews.bsky.social + more: shorturl.at/38NmN

If you want to understand the roots of the MAGA crack up we are witnessing in real time, read this review essay @washingtonmonthly.com washingtonmonthly.com/2026/01/29/t...

If you want to know the reason why Russia is not going to win, read this @washingtonmonthly.com washingtonmonthly.com/2026/01/29/p...

A public option for grocery stores, based on the proof of concept provided by the commissary model, could not only vastly improve food access; it could inject more competition into the broader grocery market and bring down food prices for all Americans in the long term. By @clairek.bsky.social

Is FEMA ready for this storm? How will cuts impact Americans? Will Trump provide equal support to red and blue states alike? This will be one of those tests of governance that every administration faces...and that Trump-led administrations regularly and often disastrously fail.

Pew Research Institute (2023): • Red State Texas has about 2.1 million undocumented immigrants • Red State Florida has 1.6 M undocumented immigrants • Blue State Minnesota has 130,000. And yet only Minnesota is being occupied by masked thugs over "immigration." It's *not* about immigration.

More of this please. Screw the water’s edge. The world needs to hear from national leaders of both parties that Trump’s foreign policy is broadly detested in America on borrowed time. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/0...

The number of representatives House Rs can afford to lose on a floor vote: Yesterday: 3 Today: 2 Soon after Jan. 31: 1 After GA-11 special (which will happen next) (barring upset): 2 After NJ-11 special (barring upset): 1 After CA-1 special (sometime in May) (barring upset): 2

Had a great discussion with the hosts of the Tests and the Rest podcast about which colleges provide the best value for your tuition and tax dollars, based on @washingtonmonthly.com’s 2025 college rankings. gettestbright.com/best-college...

To pay for tax cuts, Republicans cut graduate student loan support for female-dominated professions. That turns out to be bad policy and terrible politics. @glastris.bsky.social washingtonmonthly.com/2025/12/22/g...

finished Death By Lightning, pretty good! nice plotting, well acted etc. didn’t really buy the saintly portrayal of Garfield but boy are we loaded up with a lot of Guiteau type people today

Israel isn’t going to disappear and calling for its liquidation spurs antisemitism. There’s a better way. washingtonmonthly.com/2025/12/16/a...

The Trump administration has broken with decades of settled practice on corruption issues, and the American people will pay the price, writes Christian Caryl.

This devastating NYTimes assessment of the American military’s broken weapons development and military industrial systems is spot on. But if you’ve been reading @washingtonmonthly.com…/1 www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

1. Thread: Why America fails to build public infrastructure cost effectively. High Costs Are Not an Engineering Problem They Are a Political–Fiscal Design Problem Countries like Sweden and Germany do not build transit cheaply because they have better engineers per se. They build cheaply because:

Mad respect for this headline. www.politico.com/newsletters/...

Now Trump gets to count the war twice

China’s predatory economy is the problem. Uniting with our allies to fight back is the only sensible response. Instead, Trump is undermining our allies, and hence we are losing. There was an alternative. /1 www.nytimes.com/2025/12/07/b...

Without a higher education program, the University of Nebraska is going to have a hard time recruiting and keeping the next generation of higher education leaders when competing institutions offer the chance for staff members to further their education. This decision will backfire.

One aspect of the "affordability" story that the great minds who write on this shit seem unable to see is that Trump and his rich friends are trying to end work from home and force people back to the office. This is equivalent to an 8% pay cut, but I guess that's too simple.

Trump's dementia has grown so extreme that a select group of advisors are now running the country without his input. To find who those advisors are and what their plans are, buy my new book, which will appear in March 2029.

Oh this is so definitely going to happen.

Norwegian Institute of International Affairs and Corisk did the math Europe's politicians haven't. Arm Ukraine to win: €522-838 billion. Let Russia win and rearm Europe: €1.2-1.6 trillion—double the cost. Plus 6-11 million additional refugees.

I'm not sure it's in the self interest of America's tech bro billionaires to suggest that we bring back public executions to punish the most destructive people in our society.

“.. Federal data shows corporate investment levels are roughly in line with last year, with companies on track to invest over $5 trillion in 2025. The $20 trillion surge Mr. Trump has claimed does not appear in the available data.” @cbsnews.com www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-2...

Will Europe finally stand up in the face of Trump’s betrayal and Putin’s savagery?

If the five familes had a foreign policy it would look like this. It’s the U.S. making its terms of extortion explicit. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/u...

Most working Americans have employer-provided health coverage, and costs are out of control. Here’s a comprehensive plan to save money, put checks in their pockets, and give Democrats a winning issue. @gooznews.bsky.social washingtonmonthly.com/2025/12/02/a...

Ezra Klein's housing chart doesn't tell the story he thinks it tells deanbaker22.substack.com/p/ezra-klein... Bubbles have consequences

A populist reaction to Trump is brewing. Liberal governments in Europe, Canada, and elsewhere must join the fight. @glastris.bsky.social washingtonmonthly.com/2025/11/17/a...

"This 'populist-moderate' movement in the Democratic Party is just emerging. But I think it is the future." –– @glastris.bsky.social washingtonmonthly.com/2025/11/17/a...

I haven’t read this yet, but let me guess: it’s the left fault. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/o...

“I’m scared for my parents to walk out there, to walk out of their house, because I might not be able to say goodbye to them if they go to work. I might not ever be able to say bye or see them again,” Chavez told the council, his voice breaking. www.oregonlive.com/news/2025/11...

“woke” is when you acknowledge that black people have contributed to the united states

Elwood Watson of East Tennessee State takes the measure of various college rankings and finds @washingtonmonthly.com to be the best for most students. www.myjournalcourier.com/opinion/arti...

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This review of Jill Lepore’s WE THE PEOPLE is virtually impossible to find on the MONTHLY website, so I, tediously enough, will re-post the link several times. I am embarrassed to admit that I think it’s pretty good.

Yesterday I argued @washingtonmonthly.com that the policies parties pursue play a bigger role in elections than most politically focused people think. Today, @mattyglesias.bsky.social does an excellent job…/1 washingtonmonthly.com/2025/11/02/e...

We are joined by @glastris.bsky.social to discuss how Democrats can win back voters by creating their own response to Project 2025. We discuss this new series at The Washington Monthly, including his article, “How the Democrats Can Play Offense” soundcloud.com/user-8304426...

Since I’ve been whining about the left: It’s really dumb that Schumer and other Dem leaders haven’t endorsed Mamdani. He’s the nominee, it’s NYC, if you want a big tent you have to show you mean it.

4 more alleged drug boats sunk by the US military today. If you're struggling to make sense of this apparent new undeclared Trump war @washingtonmonthly.com has you covered. /1 www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...

A Q&A on the unstated aims and unacknowledged risks of Trump’s air strikes –– @glastris.bsky.social washingtonmonthly.com/2025/10/27/t...

In my latest piece for @foreignpolicy.com, I explain why the wave of youth-led protests around the world needs to be taken seriously foreignpolicy.com/2025/10/17/g...

Russia lost 281,550 soldiers in Ukraine in the first eight months of this year, according to a document that Ukrainian intelligence says contained leaked Russian data.

It's a really interesting question, whether data centers are going to keep bloating based on economies of scale or whether they will eventually start going modular & distributed like ... everything else.

For TIME’s cover, my profile of @springsteen. Fifty years after his breakthrough Born to Run and ahead of a powerful new film on the most vulnerable stretch of his life, we met to discuss his life and legacy, and to walk the streets where it all began: Asbury Park. Story: time.com/7319963/bruc...

🎙️Higher education excellence is not catering to the wealthy but meeting the needs of the average student, says @glastris.bsky.social. He's the editor of @washingtonmonthly.com which just put out its 2025 college rankings. Listen here: www.wortfm.org/a-successful...

The American press consistently Undercovers the success of Ukraine’s war effort.

Trump's personalist industrial policy is unlawful and courts disaster. But with the right democratic checks and balances, the next Democratic president can use the same tools to great effect, notes @joeldodge07.bsky.social @washingtonmonthly.com washingtonmonthly.com/2025/09/03/t... .