Our constitutional system is being torn asunder. Enter the shadow court, an intriguing idea from Julie C. Suk.

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The late congressman’s posthumous book condemns dogmatic insistence on unpopular ideas and offers a roadmap for reconciliation.

One in five voters who supported Donald Trump in 2024 now regrets their vote. Inflation and war are their biggest complaints.

Could the Clerk of the House lead a midterm coup? Garrett Epps looks to 1863 and 1865 for warnings about our current crisis.

The Hungarian strongman’s electoral manipulations created a system so volatile that a modest popular swing wiped out his supermajority. This second factor, malapportionment, has been even more ...

In the 48 hours before 9/11, the Bush administration was insisting we spend enough on counterterrorism and not enough on missile defense.

A new history of the post 9/11 war on terror shows how badly America and its enemies misunderstood the consequences of their own actions.

From GOP leaders to university presidents, those who might have mitigated to the president’s second term lawlessness instead bent the knee.

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 ...