The Magical Thinking Behind Graham Platner’s Rise washingtonmonthly.com/2025/11/12/t...

The Golden State is poised to join vital international organizations as the Trump administration retreats from them. washingtonmonthly.com/2025/11/12/m...

The Magical Thinking Behind Graham Platner’s Rise washingtonmonthly.com/2025/11/12/t...

The Golden State is poised to join vital international organizations as the Trump administration retreats from them. washingtonmonthly.com/2025/11/12/m...

Paul Starr on the deeper historical roots of what will be called the Trump Era—whether we like it or not. @jonathanalter.bsky.social washingtonmonthly.com/2025/11/10/a...

The slain U.S. senator, like his martyred brother, knew how important it was to concede defeat—a lesson Trump still hasn’t learned. This piece is adapted from "Lessons from Bobby: Ten Reasons Robert F. Kennedy Still Matters" by Chris Matthews. washingtonmonthly.com/2025/11/11/r...

The slain U.S. senator, like his martyred brother, knew how important it was to concede defeat—a lesson Trump still hasn’t learned. This piece is adapted from "Lessons from Bobby: Ten Reasons Robert F. Kennedy Still Matters" by Chris Matthews. washingtonmonthly.com/2025/11/11/r...

Paul Starr on the deeper historical roots of what will be called the Trump Era—whether we like it or not. @jonathanalter.bsky.social washingtonmonthly.com/2025/11/10/a...

Once again, an opposition party instigated a shutdown but failed to win a big-time White House concession. Why did the "Invertebrate Eight" sacrifice leverage for a deal that forfeited their main demands? –– @billscher.bsky.social washingtonmonthly.com/2025/11/10/d...

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My thoughts on the Invertebrate Eight washingtonmonthly.com/2025/11/10/d...

Once again, an opposition party instigated a shutdown but failed to win a big-time White House concession. Why did the "Invertebrate Eight" sacrifice leverage for a deal that forfeited their main demands? –– @billscher.bsky.social washingtonmonthly.com/2025/11/10/d...

4.) Here's a podcast I did on the Cohen with the Washington Monthly's Ann Kim and Garrett Epps: washingtonmonthly.com/2025/10/14/n... 5.) Here's an op-ed in the Hill by Mary Okin and Dominique Brave of the Living New Deal and Daniel Leckie, former GSA official: thehill.com/opinion/cong...

It's driving me batty that nobody except Heather Cox Richardson, the Washington Monthly, and myself is covering Trump's race to sell off (for likely demolition) "the Sistine Chapel of the New Deal," w/ murals by Ben Shahn, Philip Guston, etc. I've furnish links below to help reporters get started.

Hezbollah Isn’t Finished: The Lebanese state's failure to govern ensures the Iranian-backed militia won’t disappear. washingtonmonthly.com/2025/11/10/h...

The long-term medical cost crisis can’t be solved without universal coverage. For the first time in U.S. history, the GOP doesn’t even have a concept of a plan. washingtonmonthly.com/2025/11/06/r...

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...

My review of an important new book about how our federal tax system creates and reinforces our growing inequality was published today by The Washington Monthly magazine: washingtonmonthly.com/2025/11/02/s...

“Considering that Trump has done nothing for Latinos, but done plenty to Latinos, don’t be surprised if Latino embrace of Trump proves short-lived, and the gerrymandered Texas map becomes a humiliating own goal.” washingtonmonthly.com/2025/11/07/l...

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As the redistricting battles rage on, and more communities are silenced, Democrats may be able to recruit soldiers from across the aisle in the broader war for fair maps. washingtonmonthly.com/2025/11/07/p...

Republicans are banking on Latinos to help them gain five U.S. House seats from Texas, but this week, Latino voters backed Democrats –– @billscher.bsky.social washingtonmonthly.com/2025/11/07/l...

Plus, our Fall Books Issue: Reviews by @garrettepps.bsky.social, @suzmkahn.bsky.social, @jaredb-econ.bsky.social, @mgraber1.bsky.social, @davidcayjohnston.bsky.social, and more! washingtonmonthly.com/books/

@anne-s-kim.bsky.social and I spoke with @contrapoints.bsky.social on how conspiracism throws a wrench in the works of our political system, which requires reasonable public debate, deliberation, and compromise for the @washingtonmonthly.com podcast. washingtonmonthly.com/2025/11/05/n...

How did conspiracist thinking become so entwined with MAGA? @gillenmartin.bsky.social and I spoke with popular YouTuber Natalie Wynn (aka ContraPoints) about her latest video, CONSPIRACY, for @washingtonmonthly.com's podcast this week. washingtonmonthly.com/2025/11/05/n...

The long-term medical cost crisis can’t be solved without universal coverage. For the first time in U.S. history, the GOP doesn’t even have a concept of a plan. washingtonmonthly.com/2025/11/06/r...

Plus, our Fall Books Issue: Reviews by @garrettepps.bsky.social, @suzmkahn.bsky.social, @jaredb-econ.bsky.social, @mgraber1.bsky.social, @davidcayjohnston.bsky.social, and more! washingtonmonthly.com/books/

Polls show Democrats are about as unpopular as Republicans. That’s not a messaging issue, it’s policy. Both parties oversaw a system that left the bottom 60% sliding downward. Trump rose by promising to fix it. Democrats can win only by truly doing so: bit.ly/3JcXdDu

Suzanne Mettler and Trevor Brown argue that by exacerbating the suffering of rural Americans with tariffs and health care cuts, Trump is creating the same conditions that allowed FDR and Barack Obama to win substantial numbers of rural votes. washingtonmonthly.com/2025/11/02/r...

Seems apt today, from @washingtonmonthly.com @mgraber1.bsky.social review of Barrett's legal memoir: "That some Roberts Court justices may side with the Wall Street Journal editorial page over Donald Trump when the justices rule on tariffs hardly demonstrates a court above politics." bit.ly/47FA2tz

In the @washingtonmonthly.com college rankings, public universities from a handful of states dominate the top. What are they doing right? And what lessons do they offer about how to provide quality, affordable degrees when help from DC is not coming? w/ @newamerica.org: bit.ly/43Nery5

YouTuber Natalie Wynn spent a year immersing herself in the conspiracy theories wrecking our politics. Now, she’s sharing what she’s learned. washingtonmonthly.com/2025/11/05/n...

Donald Trump’s unpopularity, the fact that candidates met the moment in their elections, and the logic of off-year elections propelled the opposition party to a big victory. washingtonmonthly.com/2025/11/05/w...

YouTuber Natalie Wynn spent a year immersing herself in the conspiracy theories wrecking our politics. Now, she’s sharing what she’s learned. washingtonmonthly.com/2025/11/05/n...

Donald Trump’s unpopularity, the fact that candidates met the moment in their elections, and the logic of off-year elections propelled the opposition party to a big victory. washingtonmonthly.com/2025/11/05/w...

It’s no wonder birth rates are falling—our economy makes parenting harder than it should be. As @suzmkahn.bsky.social writes in @washingtonmonthly.com we need to treat care and time as public goods so people can afford to start and raise families. https://bit.ly/4qD6ZQ5

@mgraber1.bsky.social reviews Justice Barrett’s book: “By presenting judging as a realm of pure law, insulated from politics, the justices offer a picture so implausible that it makes the opposite claim—that judging is nothing but politics—more credible.”

Wrote this for @washingtonmonthly.com about Dick Cheney last year “Rumsfeld flew from Nice to London and then back home on August 9, greeted by Dick Cheney, Rumsfeld’s former assistant, at the airport in Virginia” washingtonmonthly.com/2024/03/04/t...

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...

The Minneapolis Mayoral Race Is the One to Watch. Really. A three-candidate alliance could unseat a popular incumbent and hand City Hall to a pol most voters didn’t choose. washingtonmonthly.com/2025/11/04/m...

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...

On why judicial biographies are almost always bad, unless you collect cliches. washingtonmonthly.com/2025/11/02/a...

Mark Graber has a terrific review of Amy Coney Barrett's memoir in the @washingtonmonthly.com : washingtonmonthly.com/2025/11/02/a...

Phil Longman and Gillen Tener Martin (@gillenmartin.bsky.social) offer a creative plan to save Social Security that avoids raising taxes on average Americans, boosts benefits to retirees who need it, and promotes a healthier and more productive America. washingtonmonthly.com/2025/11/02/h...

The result is generous, original, and fascinating—de-emphasizing the stories of the so-called Founding Fathers, and forwarding those of ordinary people, some of whom made constitutions of their own. We the People is also profoundly, indeed joyously, subversive. washingtonmonthly.com/2025/11/02/w...

We say taxes make citizens equal before the state. In practice, they divide them—between those whose income is tracked at the source and those whose wealth is invisible. washingtonmonthly.com/2025/11/02/s...

By presenting judging as pure law untainted by politics, Amy Coney Barrett offers a picture so implausible it makes cynics of us all @mgraber1.bsky.social washingtonmonthly.com/2025/11/02/a...

The coming population bust won’t be solved by right-wing pronatalism or left-wing subsidies. It will require confronting how modern life puts parenting out of reach @suzmkahn.bsky.social washingtonmonthly.com/2025/11/02/a...

The Constitution remains on display in the National Archives today, reverently viewed by visitors, "much as Mao Zedong sleeps in his tomb in Tiananmen Square," @garrettepps.bsky.social writes. But the most revolutionary part of the document is its capacity for change: bit.ly/4omReLy