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Executive Editor-Digital at Washington Monthly Journalist, Human
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Paul Glastris
about 22 hours 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
6 days 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
19 days 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
18 days 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
18 days 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
26 days 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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Matthew Cooper
Paul Glastris
about 1 month 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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Matthew Cooper
Ian Masters
about 1 month 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
2 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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2 months ago
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Timothy Noah
2 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
2 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 Cooper
Matthew Sheffield
2 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
washingtonmonthly.com/2025/09/25/b...
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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/
2 months ago
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Matthew Cooper
Yair Rosenberg
3 months ago
They are not hiding it, people who don't see it at this point are choosing not to
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Phil Lewis
3 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
3 months ago
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The Kirk Assassination and the MAGA Threat to Free Speech by
@garrettepps.bsky.social
in the
@washingtonmonthly.com
washingtonmonthly.com/2025/09/19/t...
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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/
3 months ago
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Mike Masnick
3 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
3 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.”
newrepublic.com/article/2006...
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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
3 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
washingtonmonthly.com/2025/09/17/c...
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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/
3 months ago
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Eric Roston
3 months ago
Thought-provoking reflection on journalism and 9/11 by
@mattizcoop.bsky.social
washingtonmonthly.com/2025/09/11/t...
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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
3 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
:
washingtonmonthly.com/2025/09/11/t...
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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
washingtonmonthly.com/2025/09/11/t...
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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/
3 months ago
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Still bereft about the passing of my close friend since college, who had a profound influence on my life and career. Joshua Abram Dies at 62; Gave Workspace-Sharing an Upscale Spin
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/04/b...
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Joshua Abram Dies at 62; Gave Workspace-Sharing an Upscale Spin
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/04/business/joshua-abram-dead.html?smid=bs-share
3 months ago
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Administration wants to scrap environmental data satellites.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/05/c...
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Two Valuable Satellites Are in ‘Perfect Health.’ They May Be Scrapped.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/05/climate/trump-climate-satellites.html?smid=bs-share
3 months ago
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Matthew Cooper
Nicholas Thompson
4 months ago
Bad news in Gaza and Ukraine. Bad news on the economy. Mismanagement everywhere. Obvious corruption. Epstein. And Epstein again. Even loyal Republicans are now starting to worry about Trump.
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
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Things Aren’t Going Donald Trump’s Way
He hasn’t ended the wars in Ukraine and Gaza. His economy looks shaky. And then there’s Jeffrey Epstein.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/08/trump-ukraine-gaza-economy/683786/
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Matthew Cooper
Anne S Kim
4 months ago
Dems should go "all out on gerrymandering warfare," says
@billscher.bsky.social
@washingtonmonthly.com
, and fight fire with fire in California and elsewhere. From this week's politics roundtable:
@glastris.bsky.social
@mattizcoop.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/shorts/zDK_p...
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Dems should go all out on gerrymandering warfare
YouTube video by Washington Monthly
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/zDK_pbqrsw4
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"If Netanyahu makes the colossal mistake of trying to reoccupy Gaza for the long term, then no thoughtful person can be pro-Israel without also being against him."
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/05/o...
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Opinion | Where Can Gaza Go From Here?
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/05/opinion/gaza-war-israel-netanyahu.html?unlocked_article_code=1.cU8.J3Wr.-NTEed1VjUva&smid=bs-share
4 months ago
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Matthew Cooper
Anne S Kim
4 months ago
Join
@mattizcoop.bsky.social
@glastris.bsky.social
@billscher.bsky.social
@washingtonmonthly.com
at 10 AM this am as they talk about the mess in Texas redistricting, Trump's latest authoritarian move with the BLS, and a GOP rift on Israel
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Washington Monthly
Founded in 1969, the Washington Monthly is an independent magazine based in Washington, D.C. Over the years, the Monthly has launched some of the biggest names in journalism, including James Fallows o...
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Matthew Cooper
Anne S Kim
4 months ago
The Texas GOP's outrageous power grab could be doomed to fail anyway, says
@billscher.bsky.social
@washingtonmonthly.com
ICYMI, watch this week's livestream with Bill,
@mattizcoop.bsky.social
@glastris.bsky.social
open.spotify.com/episode/6QgU...
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Crises and chaos shake the GOP with a power grab in Texas, a dispute over jobs data and a looming rift on Israel
Washington Monthly Politics Roundtable · Episode
https://open.spotify.com/episode/6QgU3MoP4YC3TJc6baCkt4?si=MRdVloJmSBuLfENj838_4A
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Matthew Cooper
Anne S Kim
5 months ago
Trump will talk about anything - anything - to distract from the furor over Jeffrey Epstein - including reviving racist names for sports teams, says
@mattizcoop.bsky.social
@washingtonmonthly.com
youtube.com/shorts/b7D06...
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Trump will talk about anything other than Epstein
YouTube video by Washington Monthly
https://youtube.com/shorts/b7D069c1rfo?si=LXHBe7fdcNidV1sw
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Anne S Kim
5 months ago
Join
@glastris.bsky.social
@billscher.bsky.social
@mattizcoop.bsky.social
on
@washingtonmonthly.com
’s politics round table at *10 AM TODAY* with special guest Tamar Jacoby, joining us living from Ukraine. Watch here:
youtube.com/@washingtonm...
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Washington Monthly
Founded in 1969, the Washington Monthly is an independent magazine based in Washington, D.C. Over the years, the Monthly has launched some of the biggest names in journalism, including James Fallows o...
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The Clinton LAX haircut comes to mind
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5 months ago
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Matthew Cooper
Paul Glastris
5 months ago
Trump might offer Ukraine kind words in his big speech tomorrow, but judge him by his deeds.
@washingtonmonthly.com
Kyiv correspondent Tamar Jacoby on what the president must do to put himself on the right side of history.
washingtonmonthly.com/2025/07/13/t...
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Trump’s Shift on Ukraine is Welcome, but Now What? | Washington Monthly
The president's had tougher language for Putin and Russia and put through a stalled arms shipment to Ukraine. Is the change real?
https://washingtonmonthly.com/2025/07/13/trumps-shift-on-ukraine/
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Washington Monthly
5 months ago
The poem that inspired the song, America the Beautiful, is 130 years old today, and despite the threats to democracy, it resonates more than ever.
washingtonmonthly.com/2025/07/03/a...
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America the Beautiful? Yes | Washington Monthly
The poem that inspired the song, America the Beautiful, is 130 years old today, and it resonates more than ever.
https://washingtonmonthly.com/2025/07/03/america-the-beautiful-yes/
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Washington Monthly
5 months ago
For an elite unit, rapidly evolving drone warfare makes the “toughest job in the army” both easier and more perilous. A frontline dispatch from Ukraine:
washingtonmonthly.com/2025/07/07/u...
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Ukraine Infantry Adapts to More Menacing Drones | Washington Monthly
Drone warfare between Russia and Ukraine grows more varied and deadly. That means the infantry must adapt. Inside a storied Ukrainian brigade.
https://washingtonmonthly.com/2025/07/07/ukraine-infantry-adapts-to-drones/
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Matthew Cooper
Anne S Kim
5 months ago
One of the biggest contributors to climate change might be sitting in your fridge.
@mikegrunwald.bsky.social
talks about the high environmental toll of agriculture and his new book, We Are Eating the Earth, at
@washingtonmonthly.com
@billscher.bsky.social
washingtonmonthly.com/2025/07/09/f...
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Feeding the World But Killing the Planet | Michael Grunwald
YouTube video by Washington Monthly
https://youtu.be/uBISO97YL40?si=-SvHt1xLI2h0dhqy
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Michael Grunwald
5 months ago
We talked about why beef is the baddie, why twee organic farms aren’t better for the planet, and other WE ARE EATING THE EARTH stuff on the
@washingtonmonthly.com
pod. Here’s the audio and transcript:
washingtonmonthly.com/2025/07/09/f...
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Feeding the World But Killing the Planet w/ Michael Grunwald | Washington Monthly
Agriculture is the biggest threat to the planet, says Michael Grunwald—and organic farming, grass-fed beef, and biofuels are making it worse.
https://washingtonmonthly.com/2025/07/09/feeding-the-world-but-killing-the-planet-w-michael-grunwald/
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Washington Monthly
5 months ago
When Ezra Klein told Jon Stewart about out-of-control regulations ruining Biden's rural broadband program, the clip went viral, with Elon Musk’s help. But the story wasn’t true—and the telecom monopolies who were the real saboteurs are still laughing.
washingtonmonthly.com/2025/07/09/t...
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The Broadband Story Abundance Liberals Like Ezra Klein Got Wrong | Washington Monthly
Ezra Klein and abundance liberals blame red tape for broadband delays. But the real story behind Biden’s BEAD program is far more complicated.
https://washingtonmonthly.com/2025/07/09/the-broadband-story-abundance-liberals-like-ezra-klein-got-wrong/
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Anne S Kim
5 months ago
Will Elon Musk's "America Party" find an audience?
@mattizcoop.bsky.social
isn't holding his breath. Watch this week's politics roundtable
@washingtonmonthly.com
here:
youtu.be/_lIsRDxoYjg?...
youtube.com/shorts/CTzXm...
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Elon Musk's "America Party"? Not taking bets.
YouTube video by Washington Monthly
https://youtube.com/shorts/CTzXmspFoXM?si=rToj7kX8ZXXfc03w
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Anne S Kim
5 months ago
Republicans will own the pain of Trump's "big beautiful" law, predicts
@mattizcoop.bsky.social
Matt and
@billscher.bsky.social
break down the coming backlash to the OBB on this week's
@washingtonmonthly.com
's politics roundtable:
washingtonmonthly.com/2025/07/07/w...
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Welcome to Trump’s America, Again | Washington Monthly
Trump's "one big beautiful bill" is now law, packed with front-loaded goodies and back-loaded pain.
https://washingtonmonthly.com/2025/07/07/welcome-to-trumps-america-again/
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Inside the Media’s Traffic Apocalypse
The whole premise of internet publishing — that you could reach audiences far and wide — is starting to crumble.
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/inside-the-medias-traffic-apocalypse.html?utm_source=nymag_app_article_share
5 months ago
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Simon Rosenberg
5 months ago
Emmy-winning Austin, TX based TV meteorologist on Facebook:
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Anne S Kim
5 months ago
Trump's "one big beautiful" bill is an even bigger disaster than you may have thought. Join
@glastris.bsky.social
@mattizcoop.bsky.social
@billscher.bsky.social
for
@washingtonmonthly.com
's politics LIVESTREAM at 10 AM Eastern today. Watch here:
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Founded in 1969, the Washington Monthly is an independent magazine based in Washington, D.C. Over the years, the Monthly has launched some of the biggest names in journalism, including James Fallows o...
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Anne S Kim
5 months ago
Trump's one big "beautiful" bill is not only a budget-buster but a betrayal of his base. ICYMI, watch today's
@washingtonmonthly.com
's weekly livestream with
@billscher.bsky.social
@glastris.bsky.social
@mattizcoop.bsky.social
here:
www.youtube.com/live/X7WM5d_...
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Politics LIVE - 6-30-25 - The GOP Spending Bill: One Big Betrayal of Trump's Base
YouTube video by Washington Monthly
https://www.youtube.com/live/X7WM5d_YPc0?si=XRDVe-k3a5w9T2PY
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Kat O’Brien
5 months ago
This is an excellent piece in
@washingtonmonthly.com
on Trump’s massive & dehumanizing deportation efforts resembling fugitive slave hunts of the 1850s. I fear we could end up in a civil war. If so, remember that the anti-slavery side won the Civil War in 1860s
washingtonmonthly.com/2025/06/11/t...
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Jack Rakove
5 months ago
This is a subject I have been brooding about for some time. I am grateful to the Washington Monthly for posting this piece.
washingtonmonthly.com/2025/06/27/i...
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It’s Not Just a Constitutional Crisis in the Trump Era. It’s Constitutional Failure | Washington Monthly
While Trump defies constitutional norms, Congress remains conspicuously silent and the Supreme Court has abdicated its responsibility.
https://washingtonmonthly.com/2025/06/27/its-not-just-a-constitutional-crisis-in-the-trump-era-its-constitutional-failure/
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