Online price swings look like fierce competition. In reality, they’re part of an invisible strategy that steers the entire market upward. Founded in 1969, the Washington Monthly is an independent ...

Colleges could standardize financial aid information to make it easier to compare. But they don’t. Here's why that's a problem.

Amazon can steer market-wide prices without ever colluding—exposing a gap in antitrust law that the FTC is now fighting to close.

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 ...

Online price swings look like fierce competition. In reality, they’re part of an invisible strategy that steers the entire market upward.

If the Trump administration really cared about taxpayers, it wouldn’t have killed Direct File, the IRS’s successful free program.

Except that the Trump administration killed Direct File, the IRS’s successful free program. Founded in 1969, the Washington Monthly is an independent media organization based in Washington, D.C. Our ...

Trump’s planned “Arc de Trump” near Arlington reflects a long tradition of strongmen using monuments to project power.

In the fight between Platner and Mills, Democrats seem to face a choice between the reckless and the listless.

Vice President JD Vance’s humiliations in Budapest and Islamabad raise the question: Why did Trump set him up to fail?

The Iran war is straining ties between Europe and the U.S., as NATO allies clash over strategy and American global leadership ...

Orbán's electoral manipulations created a system so volatile that a modest popular swing wiped out his supermajority. Sound ...