British politics are roiling as Prime Minister Keir Starmer has announced his resignation, to be replaced by his fellow ...

Trump’s rewrite of rural broadband rules helped Musk steer public money toward Starlink to strengthen SpaceX and screw rural Americans.

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 ...

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 ...

Much like the economy at large, the platforms like Substack operate on superstar economics, favoring big players over ...

A fictional but plausible dispatch from 2027 shows why Trump’s rolling coup against the midterms will likely fail.

Nicholas Lemann’s family history illuminates what it means to be Jewish in America and explains how we choose our identities.

Last week, Republican TV personality and Los Angeles mayoral candidate Spencer Pratt appeared to be one of the two candidates ...

Research suggests that whether it’s an obituary, a puff piece, or news of a community event, local news makes us feel less alone.

Voter turnout under California’s vote-at-home system was off-the-charts. That’s a far more important story than waiting a week for results.

Iranian and Venezuelan émigré networks made the case for U.S. intervention. Then President Trump cut them loose.

Samuel Moyn’s Gerontocracy in America treats old age as the central crisis of modern politics. The framing obscures more than it explains.