The DOE is investigating Smith College for admitting transgender women, but the probe fits a broader conservative Republican pattern.

The Education Department investigates the venerable women’s school for admitting transgender women and granting them access to “women-only” spaces like dorms. A Smith College scholar shows how Trump’s ...

Democrats should unite behind Graham Platner if Maine’s Democratic voters pick him over Janet Mills, but voters should make that choice.

Democrats should unite behind Graham Platner if Maine’s Democratic voters pick him to run against Senator Susan Collins. But voters should make that choice first. Founded in 1969, the Washington ...

If Macron’s defense spending debate is any indication, a “European NATO” is neither around the corner nor on the horizon ...

Founded in 1969, the Washington Monthly is an independent media organization based in Washington, D.C. Our mission: To preserve democracy and champion good governance through honest journalism and ...

Theo Baker exposes Stanford’s culture of fraud with real reporting, but his disdain for Silicon Valley’s strivers sometimes ...

Democrats have their biggest May midterm election lead in 20 years. But gerrymandering means even a Blue Wave may barely ...

New polling shows not so much ideological division among Democrats but a lack of consensus about where the party should go.

Barney Frank’s near-expulsion in 1989 reminds us why Congress should punish misconduct carefully, and let voters decide when possible.

Steven J. Ross’s The Secret War Against Hate recovers the strange, risky world of spies who infiltrated American Nazis after World War II.