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

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

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

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

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.

Trump's refusal to reauthorize FISA Section 702 unless it’s linked to a voter suppression bill leaves America vulnerable to terrorist attack.

From ancient Greece to New Deal America to today’s Hungary, democracies have found ways to separate private fortunes from public power. Founded in 1969, the Washington Monthly is an independent media ...

David Lingelbach is a professor of entrepreneurship at the Merrick School of Business, University of Baltimore. Valentina Rodríguez Guerra is a doctoral candidate in management at Colombia’s ...

Louisiana v. Callais and now Allen v. Milligan have laid bare the court’s fundamental misinterpretation of the Voting Rights Act.