The Week's Best Articles From the Washington Monthly
How Trump has destabilized the world ... how we can fix social media ... how the 14th Amendment can thwart Trump ... and more
The Week's Best Articles From the Washington Monthly
Donald Trump and the End of American Global Leadership: Tamar Jacoby, director of the Progressive Policy Institute’s New Ukraine Project, explains how the president has destabilized the world by capitulating to Russia. Click here for the full story.
America Needs Social Media Sovereignty: Roy Temple, media consultant and former chair of the Missouri Democratic Party, proposed that social media companies "should require user verification of any account before allowing it to be amplified by its algorithms" and verify "that we are interacting with actual humans." Click here for the full story.
What You Should Know About the Right to Protection in the Trump Era: David H. Gans of the Constitutional Accountability Center details how the Fourteenth Amendment can block the president's attempts to strip marginalized populations of legal protections. Click here for the full story.
New York City’s Long Winter of Discontent: James D. Zirin, author and legal analyst, sizes up the brewing New York City mayor's race. Click here for the full story.
Make America Sick Again: Politics Editor Bill Scher explores the political logic behind the GOP's embrace of anti-vaccine quackery. Click here for the full story.
Trump’s Historically Bad First Month of Polls Should Terrify Republicans: Scher compares Trump's declining poll numbers to his predecessors, and offers a warning to the congressional Republican majority. Click here for the full story.
New Washington Monthly Podcast Episode
Podcast hosts Anne Kim and Garrett Epps discuss the foundational concepts of U.S. democracy, focusing on the separation of powers and the emerging threat of the “unitary executive” theory. Listen on iTunes, Spotify, and YouTube.
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