“The 2028 Race Has Begun. Here’s Who’s Winning.” It’s my (I think) 9th annual @politico.com year-end presidential primary temp check www.politico.com/news/magazin...

Long-standing threats to an independent press are coming to a head. The Monthly needs your help more than ever to fight back. washingtonmonthly.com/2025/12/26/d...

11 of Our Most Memorable Pieces from 2025 washingtonmonthly.com/2025/12/22/1...

What Bill Clinton Learned from Jim Hunt and Why It Still Matters washingtonmonthly.com/2025/12/23/w...

The Trump Boomerang Effect: Bari Weiss, Meet Ozymandias washingtonmonthly.com/2025/12/23/t...

The GOP’s pronatalist argument that reducing graduate education loan support will boost the birth rate isn’t looking so good, considering the damage likely to be done to the careers of those who **deliver babies for a living** washingtonmonthly.com/2025/12/22/g...

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...

Here's my latest piece @washingtonmonthly.com Hoping those in NATO can evolve this alliance relationship & account for national strategic advantages. We talk a lot about sealift capacity w/my colleagues at the Hoover Institution. Here's one possible solution. washingtonmonthly.com/2025/12/22/n...

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...

The alliance demands its members spend 2 percent of GDP on defense, but its green-eye shade focus ignores Athens’ massive sealift capacity. washingtonmonthly.com/2025/12/22/n...

The president's uniquely toxic brand of “self-reliance” threatens the collective strength that truly makes America great, writes @anne-s-kim.bsky.social. washingtonmonthly.com/2025/12/21/t...

The riveting acting by @nickofferman.bsky.social and the rest of the cast makes Death By Lightning a wild ride, but the Netflix miniseries also offers a peek into why keeping the professional civil service is so important washingtonmonthly.com/2025/12/19/d...

It’s a murderous December. Shocking slayings and the background of Orange Man's dysfunction cast a pall over the holidays. washingtonmonthly.com/2025/12/19/b...

“‘Death By Lightning’ Shows Why a Professional Civil Service Matters” My latest for @washingtonmonthly.com washingtonmonthly.com/2025/12/19/d...

My qualms about Ken Burns' American Revolution series, which strangely fails to explain what made the Revolution revolutionary. washingtonmonthly.com/2025/12/18/w...

Ken Burns's latest PBS series is long on muskets and bayonets, but the political history of the Revolution remains strangely understated. @jrakove.bsky.social washingtonmonthly.com/2025/12/18/w...

The government can only deliver for working people if it’s built to do so. Great listen from @washingtonmonthly.com featuring Hannah Garden-Monheit, author of our recent report laying out a progressive blueprint for fixing a risk-averse federal government and clearing barriers that slow action.

Government is slow, inefficient, and sclerotic. On our podcast, a former senior Biden official offers a blueprint to fix it. @rooseveltinstitute.org washingtonmonthly.com/2025/12/17/g...

Subsidies for Scholarship Granting Organizations, the latest rage on the right, are being sold as a brilliant innovation to help underprivileged kids. Don’t fall for it. washingtonmonthly.com/2025/12/17/t...

Palestine activists should follow David Blakenhorn’s example, not Barry Goldwater’s, writes Jon A. Shields. washingtonmonthly.com/2025/12/16/a...

A comprehensive overview of the 47th president's pardon machine. washingtonmonthly.com/2025/12/16/t...

If anybody who criticized Charlie Kirk in the days after his death deserved to lose their job, why doesn’t Donald Trump deserve to lose his? washingtonmonthly.com/2025/12/15/t...

"Trump Is Trying to Control the Corporate Media. Here’s How You Can Stop Him." washingtonmonthly.com/2025/12/16/t...

The president wants to pick CNN’s owners and decide what CBS News airs. washingtonmonthly.com/2025/12/16/t...

A comprehensive overview of the 47th president's pardon machine. washingtonmonthly.com/2025/12/16/t...

If anybody who criticized Charlie Kirk in the days after his death deserved to lose their job, why doesn’t Donald Trump deserve to lose his? washingtonmonthly.com/2025/12/15/t...

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

Perhaps fitting this season of year-end wrap-ups, I published an essay in Washington Monthly trying to sum up how the Roberts Court throughout 2025 has been enabling Trump’s assault on the constitutionally intended distribution of powers among Congress, the executive, and the courts.

Crypto-colonialists, broligarchs, and a bit of the backstory of the shameful pardon of the former Honduran president. @jonathanalter.bsky.social on Trump's pardon-for-profit racket. washingtonmonthly.com/2025/12/15/t...

Politics Editor @billscher.bsky.social joins @eisendrath.net on @wcpt820am.bsky.social to discuss the divisions roiling the Democratic Party—and what they mean for primary races across the country. omny.fm/shows/democr...

The Roberts Court has been an accomplice to the president’s blatant attempts to bypass the Constitution’s limits on his power.  Here’s how. –– @petermshane.bsky.social washingtonmonthly.com/2025/12/15/h...

Crypto-colonialists, broligarchs, and a bit of the backstory of the shameful pardon of the former Honduran president. @jonathanalter.bsky.social on Trump's pardon-for-profit racket. washingtonmonthly.com/2025/12/15/t...

The expiration of ACA subsidies isn't the only healthcare crisis we're facing: Workers with employer-provided health insurance are facing spiking costs too. @gooznews.bsky.social spoke with me at @washingtonmonthly.com about what Congress should do. open.substack.com/pub/washingt...

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/...

…you would have known all about it in the summer is 2024. @washingtonmonthly.com washingtonmonthly.com/2024/06/23/w...

“What Maine’s U.S. Senate Primary Tells Us About the Democratic Party” washingtonmonthly.com/2025/12/12/m...

My new review in @washingtonmonthly.com of Brian Soucek’s brilliant “The Opinionated University” published by @uchicagopress.bsky.social. All the arguments you need next time your administration decides to remain silent.

The mind-bending assault of the Trumpists on colleges, its lethal mix of fake outrage and financial coercion, will set back American higher education by decades. It will also, as a new book argues, make it unforgivably dull. washingtonmonthly.com/2025/12/11/t...

The mind-bending assault of the Trumpists on colleges, its lethal mix of fake outrage and financial coercion, will set back American higher education by decades. It will also, as a new book argues, make it unforgivably dull. washingtonmonthly.com/2025/12/11/t...

What Pete Hegseth Could Learn from Ulysses S. Grant  washingtonmonthly.com/2025/12/10/p...

at Washington Monthly, I wrote about Brandon Rottinghaus' new book Scandal. Scandals do matter, Rottinghaus says, even in a partisan age. And one way you can see that, I argue, is by thinking about the way scandals mattered before the civil war. washingtonmonthly.com/2025/12/10/s...

Some of this is controversial advice, I know, but Dems need to have this conversation sooner rather than later to be in the best position for 2028. Feedback welcome!

Democrats crushed this year’s special elections. But voters still think the party’s too liberal and out of touch. On our podcast, strategist Simon Bazelon shares advice with @anne-s-kim.bsky.social on what to fix––and the data to back it up. washingtonmonthly.com/2025/12/10/t...

A new book says polarization breeds impunity. But America’s worst injustices emerged when the parties got along too well. @nberlat.bsky.social washingtonmonthly.com/2025/12/10/s...

What Pete Hegseth Could Learn from Ulysses S. Grant Trump’s Defense Secretary said he’d stop drinking if confirmed. @jamesnorth7.bsky.social, a recovering alcoholic, on why the first year of sobriety is so hard and how the Civil War general and president got control.

My experience as a recovering alcoholic shows me why Pete #Hegseth is so dangerous -- even if he did stop drinking, he has the "dry drunk syndrome" that hits in early sobriety. My article @washingtonmonthly.com. @garrettepps.bsky.social @jfallows.bsky.social washingtonmonthly.com/2025/12/10/p...

@billscher.bsky.social on our "half-kleptocracy, half-kakistocracy govt": "President Donald Trump is a convicted white-collar criminal who likes to let other white-collar criminals off the hook. That statement is not a columnist’s vitriol but factually correct." washingtonmonthly.com/2025/12/09/t...

"Trump’s clemency record is a classic tip of the iceberg, an above-the-water indication of a massive half-kleptocracy, half-kakistocracy government that sits below the surface"

From February through the first week of December, Trump has issued 61 pardons and commutations. Nearly half, 27, benefited white-collar criminals (including two unprecedented grants for corporations) like himself. Another 14 related to political corruption. washingtonmonthly.com/2025/12/09/t...

“As more Russian oligarchs, Islamic State leaders and others have begun using [stablecoins] ... the rise of these dollar-linked tokens threatens to undermine one of America’s most potent foreign policy tools: cutting adversaries off from the dollar and the global banking system.”