The Week's Best Articles from the Washington Monthly
Make Donald Trump Pick Up Trash if He Violates the Gag Order ... Dump Kamala Harris? She’s Joe Biden’s Secret Weapon ... Which States Help Their College Grads Land Good Jobs? ... and more
The Week's Best Articles from the Washington Monthly
Make Donald Trump Pick Up Trash if He Violates the Gag Order: Contributing Editor Jonathan Alter, writer of the Old Goats newsletter, proposes a sentence of community service for the former president. Click here for the full story.
Trump and His Lawyers Sweat Smart, No-Nonsense Judge Merchan in Hush Money Trial: Alter also files this dispatch from inside the courtroom of the Donald Trump hush money trial. Click here for the full story.
Dump Kamala Harris? She’s Joe Biden’s Secret Weapon: Writer Jason Kyle Howard finds the Vice President is defying her critics and hitting her stride at just the right time. Click here for the full story.
Florida Is (Hypothetically) Winnable for Biden and the Democrats: Politics Editor Bill Scher looks at Biden's chances in the puzzling peninsula. Click here for the full story.
Which States Help Their College Grads Land Good Jobs?: Missouri State University President Emeritus Michael T. Nietzel spotlights the State Opportunity Index report published by the Strada Education Foundation. Click here for the full story.
Biden’s Smart Case Against the Sale of U.S. Steel to Nippon Steel: Garphil Julien, fellow at the Open Markets Institute, defends the president's position against charges of protectionism. Click here for the full story.
With Abortion Drug, Alito Seems to Abandon His Usual Hard Line on Who Can Sue: Contributing Writer Peter M. Shane exposes Justice Samuel Alito's hypocrisy in the mifepristone access case. Click here for the full story.
Disordering Our National Myths: Colin Woodard, founder and director of Nationhood Lab, reviews the book A Great Disorder: National Myth and the Battle for America by Richard Slotkin. Click here for the full story.
The Exploitative Origins of Amazon: Karina Montoya, senior reporter at the Center for Journalism & Liberty, reviews the book The Everything War: Amazon’s Ruthless Quest to Own the World and Remake Corporate Power by Dana Mattioli. Click here for the full story.
The Art of the “Get”: Sara Bhatia, an independent museum consultant, reviews the book Rulebreaker: The Life and Times of Barbara Walters by Susan Page. Click here for the full story.
The Truth About Lies: Contributing Editor Joshua Green reviews the new book The Lie Detectives: In Search of a Playbook for Winning Elections in the Disinformation Age by Sasha Issenberg. Click here for the full story.
The Doomscroll Generation: Sarah P. Weeldreyer, writer of the What I Might Have Said newsletter, reviews the book The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness by Jonathan Haidt. Click here for the full story.
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