Mission Impossible: Sent to broker progress on Iran, Vice President JD Vance arrives in Islamabad for 21 hours of talks that ended in an impasse, on April 11, 2026. Credit: Associated Press Last week, ...

Concepts only: President Donald Trump announces a new health care proposal that includes few details and little prospect of lowering costs. Credit: Associated Press One year into his second term, ...

The universities that educate the majority of Americans are struggling. How college closures will reengineer America’s class system.

The Best Colleges for Rural America reveal how some of higher ed’s biggest returns are happening in the country’s most remote corners.

The best research universities driving American innovation aren’t just in blue states—and neither is the damage from Trump’s research cuts.

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 ...

From Allan Bloom’s lecture halls to the Iraq War’s intellectual wreckage, how Fukuyama became a neoconservative movement dissenter.

To establish the set of colleges included in the rankings, we started with the 1,950 colleges in the 50 states and Washington, D.C., listed in the U.S. Department of Education’s Integrated ...

In a time of enrollment crunch, universities have a moral and existential obligation to serve the one student population that’s growing. We tracked how good a job they’re doing.  Founded in 1969, ...

Plus, our first-of-its-kind ranking of the best colleges for rural America.  Founded in 1969, the Washington Monthly is an independent media organization based in Washington, D.C. Our mission: To ...

The U.S. national debt recently surpassed $40 trillion. Reining it in is the only way to achieve progressive goals.

In a time of enrollment crunch, universities have an existential obligation to serve Hispanic students, the one population that’s growing.