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Executive Editor-Digital at Washington Monthly Journalist, Human
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Corby Kummer
30 days ago
Anyone with an instinctive dislike and suspicion of ultra-processed foods powerful new ammunition--a landmark special issue of
@apha.org
's Journal with eye-opening research led by Kelly Brownell and
@aspenfood.bsky.social
's Food Leaders Fellow Lee Miller.
ajph.aphapublications.org/ultraprocess...
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AJPH
American Journal of Public Health (AJPH) from the American Public Health Association (APHA)
https://ajph.aphapublications.org/ultraprocessedfoodssection
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Antisemitism—Left, Right, and Growing
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Antisemitism—Left, Right, and Growing
Criticism of Israel and its conduct is fair game. Conspiratorial delusions about Zionism are just antisemitism.
https://washingtonmonthly.com/2026/05/31/antisemitism-left-right-and-growing/
about 1 month ago
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Five Big Changes Coming to Higher Education This Summer
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Five Big Changes Coming to Higher Education This Summer
If you have federal student loans—or plan to take them out—here’s what you need to know about the biggest changes to financial aid in decades.
https://washingtonmonthly.com/2026/06/01/changes-coming-to-higher-ed-this-summer-student-loans/
about 1 month ago
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Could the Tide Be Turning in Ukraine?
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Could the Tide Be Turning in Ukraine?
Kyiv’s growing long-range strike capacity showcases its growing military might and determination to end dependence on Western allies.
https://washingtonmonthly.com/2026/06/01/could-the-tide-be-turning-in-ukraine-long-range-strikes/
about 1 month ago
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The French Rejection
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The French Rejection
If Macron’s defense spending debate is any indication, a “European NATO” is neither around the corner nor on the horizon
https://washingtonmonthly.com/2026/05/26/the-french-rejection-macron-defense/
about 1 month ago
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Frank Figliuzzi
about 1 month ago
While we slept the DOJ deleted all press releases about charges against January 6 defendants:
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Justice Department deletes press releases on charges against Jan. 6 rioters
The Justice Department confirmed that it had deleted the press releases as part of “stripping DOJ’s website of partisan propaganda.”
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/justice-department-deletes-press-releases-charges-jan-6-rioters-rcna346613
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Washington Monthly
about 1 month ago
Barney Frank's near political end in a sex scandal is a reminder of why Congress should pause before forcing members to resign,
@mattizcoop.bsky.social
writes.
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Be Thankful Barney Frank Wasn’t Pushed Out in 1989
Barney Frank’s near-expulsion in 1989 reminds us why Congress should punish misconduct carefully, and let voters decide when possible.
https://washingtonmonthly.com/2026/05/21/barney-frank-1989-scandal-congress-resignation/
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Jill Lawrence
about 1 month ago
Wise words and perspective on Barney Frank from my cousin
@mattizcoop.bsky.social
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Be Thankful Barney Frank Wasn’t Pushed Out in 1989
Barney Frank’s near-expulsion in 1989 reminds us why Congress should punish misconduct carefully, and let voters decide when possible.
https://washingtonmonthly.com/2026/05/21/barney-frank-1989-scandal-congress-resignation/
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The
@washingtonmonthly.bsky.social
ran a cover story by the late Ted Turner, decrying monopolies. Timely still. RIP. My Beef With Big Media by Ted Turner.
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My Beef With Big Media
How government protects big media — and shuts out upstarts like me.
https://washingtonmonthly.com/2004/07/30/my-beef-with-big-media/
about 2 months ago
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Precisely. The system seems to have worked. We’ll learn more as inquiries proceed.
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2 months ago
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Garrett M. Graff
2 months ago
All the details of this story back up my quick morning analysis: The security system worked exactly as designed.
www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/a-quick-an...
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Trump’s Iranian Gambit: It Didn't Have to Come to This
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Trump’s Iranian Gambit: It Didn't Have to Come to This
The president scuttled the Obama-era agreement to limit Iran's nuclear program, leaving us blind and with few allies.
https://washingtonmonthly.com/2026/02/28/trumps-iranian-gamble-nuclear-program/
4 months ago
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My tribute to Suzannah Lessard.
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The Architect of Empathy: Suzannah Lessard (1944-2026)
Our Suzannah Lessard, a celebrated author and progeny of Stanford White, had a tumultuous upbringing and a nuanced moral imagination.
https://washingtonmonthly.com/2026/03/04/the-architect-of-empathy-suzannah-lessard-1944-2026/
4 months ago
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Matthew Cooper
Washington Monthly
4 months ago
Suzannah Lessard, one of the first editors of the Washington Monthly, died in January at age 81.
@mattizcoop.bsky.social
writes in memoriam.
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The Architect of Empathy: Suzannah Lessard (1944-2026)
Our Suzannah Lessard, a celebrated author and progeny of Stanford White, had a tumultuous upbringing and a nuanced moral imagination.
https://washingtonmonthly.com/2026/03/04/the-architect-of-empathy-suzannah-lessard-1944-2026/
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Trump’s Iran Strike: What It Says About Russia—and Us
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Trump’s Iran Strike: What It Says About Russia—and Us
If Russia were stronger, this never would have happened. If Trump weren’t so authoritarian, he might not have risked it.
https://washingtonmonthly.com/2026/02/28/trumps-iran-strike-what-it-says-about-russia-and-us/
4 months ago
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Bill Scher
4 months ago
NEW
@mattizcoop.bsky.social
in
@washingtonmonthly.com
“sticking with the JCPOA … would have made sense. We’d still have our allies. We wouldn’t be alone, save for Israel.”
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Trump’s Iranian Gambit: It Didn't Have to Come to This
The president scuttled the Obama-era agreement to limit Iran's nuclear program, leaving us blind and with few allies.
https://washingtonmonthly.com/2026/02/28/trumps-iranian-gamble-nuclear-program/
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Trump’s Iranian Gambit: It Didn't Have to Come to This
The president scuttled the Obama-era agreement to limit Iran's nuclear program, leaving us blind and with few allies.
https://washingtonmonthly.com/2026/02/28/trumps-iranian-gamble-nuclear-program/
4 months ago
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Terrific from
@garrettepps.bsky.social
in the
@washingtonmonthly.com
Amnesty Transactional
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Amnesty Transactional
Donald Trump has stretched the pardon power beyond any precedent, turning a constitutional safeguard into a tool of personal abuse.
https://washingtonmonthly.com/2026/01/14/amnesty-transactional-pardon-power/
6 months ago
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"Venezuela and the Dawn of the Don-roe Doctrine." Very smart take from
@markoskounalakis.com
in the
@washingtonmonthly.com
washingtonmonthly.com/2026/01/03/t...
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Venezuela and the Dawn of the Don-roe Doctrine
The U.S. assault on Venezuela and ouster of its president was a military success. But now for the hard part.
https://washingtonmonthly.com/2026/01/03/trump-venezuela-the-don-roe-doctrine/
6 months ago
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The Washington Post
6 months ago
Bill Martin has been one of the most beloved and influential figures in the movement to retell Richmond's story. Over the weekend, he was struck by a vehicle and killed. His sudden loss has brought an outpouring of grief and shock from the community.
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He exposed the myth of the South’s ‘Lost Cause.’ His death shook Richmond.
William “Bill” Martin, 71, died Sunday, Dec. 28, a day after being struck by a car near the Valentine local history museum where he had served as director more than 30 years.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2026/01/02/richmond-valentine-museum-martin-confederate/?utm_campaign=wp_main&utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social
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Lot in here from
@justinbaragona.bsky.social
including call sheets from next week’s unveiling of the new CBS Evening News.
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6 months ago
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Peter M. Shane
6 months ago
Not that I'm expecting it, but I explain in Washington Monthly why upholding Congress's power to create independent multimember agencies could coexist with the Roberts Court's other holdings on POTUS removal power and would enhance the Court's legitimacy.
washingtonmonthly.com/2026/01/02/s...
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Save Humphrey’s Executor. Save the Supreme Court (Sort Of)
Overturning Humphrey’s Executor would gut independent agencies. The Supreme Court still has a principled way out.
https://washingtonmonthly.com/2026/01/02/save-humphreys-executor-supreme-court-independent-agencies/
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Matthew Cooper
Washington Monthly
6 months ago
A modest proposal for how the justices can do the right thing and be true to themselves as they decide the fate of independent agencies. From
@petermshane.bsky.social
:
washingtonmonthly.com/2026/01/02/s...
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Save Humphrey’s Executor. Save the Supreme Court (Sort Of)
Overturning Humphrey’s Executor would gut independent agencies. The Supreme Court still has a principled way out.
https://washingtonmonthly.com/2026/01/02/save-humphreys-executor-supreme-court-independent-agencies/
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Paul Glastris
7 months ago
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...
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China’s Trade Surplus Climbs Past $1 Trillion for First Time
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/07/business/china-trade-surplus.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
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Matthew Cooper
Washington Monthly
7 months ago
On our podcast,
@mattizcoop.bsky.social
and
@anne-s-kim.bsky.social
go behind the scenes with Angela Kuefler, the pollster who helped engineer the historic victories of governors-elect Abigail Spanberger and Mikie Sherrill.
washingtonmonthly.com/2025/12/03/h...
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How Democrats Won Virginia and New Jersey
The affordability message, national-security branding, and anti-Trump strategy that powered Spanberger and Sherrill to double-digit wins.
https://washingtonmonthly.com/2025/12/03/how-democrats-won-virginia-new-jersey-2025/
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Ana Marie Cox
7 months ago
Ok, however much you've thought about this Nuzzi business, I promise I've thought about it more.
newsletter.anamariecox.com/archive/note...
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Notes on Your American Canto Draft
I read it. Everyone deserves a good editor, even people who don’t get one. Olivia, Thank you so much for this. I’m impressed with the scope of your ambition...
https://newsletter.anamariecox.com/archive/notes-on-your-american-canto-draft/
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James Fallows
7 months ago
Great new
@bloomberg.com
piece by Jessica Stolzberg on ongoing struggle against stupidest and most harmful part of current 'Conspicuous Consumption' yard hygiene. The diff this has made in DC is ... incredible.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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What It Takes to Defeat the Leaf Blowers
To end the use of gas-powered blowers, advocates in one New Jersey town focused on public health and made their case directly to local elected leaders.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-15/my-new-jersey-town-banned-gas-powered-leaf-blowers-here-s-how
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Clara Jeffery
7 months ago
Get yourself someone who righteously hates something as much as
@jfallows.bsky.social
hates leaf blowers (I’m with him! at least go electric)
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Clean Observer
8 months ago
Once again,
@glastris.bsky.social
does a masterful job piloting a principled magazine. Compare this to the vile “I have no view on the Nazi tattoo” stance taken by the Prospect’s editor.
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The Magical Thinking Behind Graham Platner’s Rise
Progressives are backing a Nazi-tattooed amateur over Gov. Janet Mills, a feminist who expanded Medicaid and made community college free.
https://washingtonmonthly.com/2025/11/12/the-magical-thinking-behind-graham-platners-rise/
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Paul Glastris
8 months ago
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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Commentary: A different way to rank colleges — Elwood Watson
Commentary: Washington Monthly has published rankings with the intent of avoiding what the most prestigious rankings seek to reward: an institution’s wealth, prestige, and exclusivity.
https://www.myjournalcourier.com/opinion/article/a-different-way-rank-colleges-elwood-watson-21097127.php
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Background Briefing with Ian Masters
8 months ago
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”
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Trump Has Project 2025 But the Democrats Have No Plan and They Need to Go On the Offensive With One
November 3, 2025 - Paul Glastris backgroundbriefing.org/donate x.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
https://soundcloud.com/user-830442635/web_paul_glastris-2?si=b2983daf60534c8cb0a9e22cdd02a79e&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing
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Matthew Cooper
Washington Monthly
9 months ago
In Portland, our intrepid legal affairs editor
@garrettepps.bsky.social
braves ICE and kombucha to report on the Justice Department’s Orwellian arguments and how a Trump-nominated jurist is holding the line for democracy.
washingtonmonthly.com/2025/10/06/t...
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The Judge Standing up to Trump’s Portland Invasion
A report on the Justice Department’s Orwellian arguments and how a Trump-nominated jurist is holding the line for democracy.
https://washingtonmonthly.com/2025/10/06/the-judge-standing-up-to-trumps-portland-invasion/
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Great reporting from
@washingtonmonthly.com
Contributing Editor
@timothynoah.bsky.social
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9 months ago
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Timothy Noah
9 months ago
This weekend is a good time to catch up on my stories about Trump’s imminent sale and likely destruction of a 1940 government building that one expert calls “the Sistine Chapel of New Deal art.” Part one:
newrepublic.com/article/2010...
Part two:
newrepublic.com/article/2012...
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The New Deal Masterpieces Threatened by Trump’s D.C. Downsizing
Your great-grandparents paid Ben Shahn and Philip Guston to create gorgeous public murals. Next year they could be rubble.
https://newrepublic.com/article/201055/ben-shahn-wpa-art-trump
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The Upshot
9 months ago
As always,
@boltsmag.org
puts out a great guide to all the elections coming up. "We’ve identified more than 180 key elections that will be decided this fall—from mayors and governors to school boards and judges—and explain why they matter."
boltsmag.org/whats-on-the...
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Your Cheat Sheet to the 2025 General Elections - Bolts
Four contests have come to largely define the 2025 elections: the elections to lead New Jersey, Virginia, and New York City, plus California’s redistricting measure. But there’s so much else... Read M...
https://boltsmag.org/whats-on-the-ballot/2025-general-election/
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Matthew Sheffield
9 months ago
The deep dive that
@donmoyn.bsky.social
and I did into what Russell Vought and Donald Trump are seeking in their shutdown is now published with transcript and show notes. We also covered the history of right-wing public administration and Vought's religious extremism, and much more!
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Trump’s shutdown strategy is far more radical than you know
White House budget director Russell Vought is waging war on the government, secularism, and modernity itself
https://plus.flux.community/p/trumps-shutdown-strategy-is-far-more
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Brett Kavanaugh Hits the Street! Very funny from
@garrettepps.bsky.social
in the
@washingtonmonthly.com
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Brett Kavanaugh Hits the Street!
Supreme Court Justice Kavanaugh greenlit racial profiling. How the jurist sees an envision an ICE agent confronting a Hispanic Appearing Person.
https://washingtonmonthly.com/2025/09/25/brett-kavanaugh-ice-agent/
9 months ago
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Phil Lewis
9 months ago
Stevie Wonder pays tribute to Earth, Wind and Fire's "September" during tonight's "A Grammy Salute to Earth, Wind & Fire Live"
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Pentagon demands journalists pledge to not obtain unauthorized material
10 months ago
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The Kirk Assassination and the MAGA Threat to Free Speech by
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in the
@washingtonmonthly.com
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The Kirk Assassination and the MAGA Threat to Free Speech
Demagogues are using the tragic Kirk assassination to target free speech, the First Amendment, and America itself.
https://washingtonmonthly.com/2025/09/19/the-kirk-assassination-and-the-maga-threat-to-free-speech/
10 months ago
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Mike Masnick
10 months ago
He can't even stick with the pretext they cooked up as to why Kimmel had to go, huh?
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Brian Beutler
10 months ago
“Democrats need to let it be known that any and all Trump accomplices who carry out corrupt or illegal actions on his behalf will face accountability later. It’s the only language these authoritarian thugs will ever understand.”
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Trump’s Ouster of Jimmy Kimmel Is Much Worse than You Think It Is
Anna Gomez, the FCC’s lone Democratic commissioner, tells TNR that her boss’ move violates both the First Amendment and the Communications Act. Democrats must extract consequences.
https://newrepublic.com/article/200649/trump-ouster-kimmel-anna-gomez
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The Bulwark
10 months ago
@timmiller.bsky.social
: “This is the federal government pressuring media companies to silence critics of the president. I mean, this is a straight out of the authoritarian playbook. It is an attempt to silence speech directly from the government.”
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Great Constitution Day read! The Great Might-Have-Been of the Constitutional Convention. Great from Stanford ’s Jack Rakove on the Senate that could have been. The Great Might-Have-Been of the Constitutional Convention
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The Great Might-Have-Been of the Constitutional Convention
The U.S. Senate and the nation's history might different if the Constitutional Convention had structured the chamber differently.
https://washingtonmonthly.com/2025/09/17/constitutional-convention/
10 months ago
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Eric Roston
10 months ago
Thought-provoking reflection on journalism and 9/11 by
@mattizcoop.bsky.social
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The Lost Journalistic World of 9/11
Before the era of “hot takes,” silos, steep budget cuts, and charges of “fake news,” the mainstream press had strengths that we need now.
https://washingtonmonthly.com/2025/09/11/the-lost-journalistic-world-of-9-11-2/
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Washington Monthly
10 months ago
Charlie Kirk's Assassination War More Than Just Murder. The law makes distinctions between killings, and there’s a reason political assassination deserves a special circle of Hell –
@mattizcoop.bsky.social
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The Charlie Kirk Assassination: More Than Just Murder
The Charlie Kirk assassination shows why political assassination is penalized differently than typical murders.
https://washingtonmonthly.com/2025/09/11/the-charlie-kirk-assassination-more-than-just-murder/
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Me: The Lost Journalistic World of 9/11
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The Lost Journalistic World of 9/11
Before the era of “hot takes,” silos, steep budget cuts, and charges of “fake news,” the mainstream press had strengths that we need now.
https://washingtonmonthly.com/2025/09/11/the-lost-journalistic-world-of-9-11-2/
10 months ago
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