Bill Maher, winner of the First Amendment Award, speaks to the crowd at the 26th Annual Literary Awards Festival at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel on Wednesday, September 28, 2016, in Beverly Hills, California. (Photo by Casey Curry/Invision/AP)
New Rule: Bill Maher Should Look in the Mirror
The comedian sees himself as a one-man truth squad fighting the woke so Democrats can prevail in Middle America. He’s not.
Feeling Dread and Exhaustion? Stop It!
Why you, and the Washington Monthly, need to keep fighting.
Vice Presidents Get No Respect. Kamala Harris Is No Exception.
Cut the history-making No. 2 a break. The job is the problem, not her.
Afghanistan Is Sliding Into Famine
As winter approaches, Afghans are facing more hardships, a hunger crisis, and dire choices.
Are the Courts Getting Ready to Crack Down on Reporters?
A ruling blocking The New York Times from covering a far-right activist group has ominous implications for the First Amendment.
Magazine
The Surprising Greatness of Jimmy Carter
A conversation with presidential biographers Jonathan Alter and Kai Bird.
Protecting the Vote
A Voting Rights Bill That Both Democrats and Republicans Can Support
The GOP reflexively blocks any legislation that makes it easier to vote. But Mitch McConnell’s home state of Kentucky shows a model for compromise.
College Guide
A Different Kind of College Ranking
Congress is poised to invest hundreds of billions of dollars on higher education. Here are the schools most likely to benefit.
Politics
New Rule: Bill Maher Should Look in the Mirror
The comedian sees himself as a one-man truth squad fighting the woke so Democrats can prevail in Middle America. He’s not.
Education
How Companies You’ve Never Heard of Help For-Profit Colleges Stay in Business
Inside the shadowy world of tuition financing firms that are putting America’s students into massive debt.
The Monopolized Economy
Can Biden Coop Up the Monopolies?
The administration and a bipartisan Congress want to bring relief to livestock farmers. Big Ag lobbyists want to stop them.
Books
Has the Antiracist Movement Become a Counterproductive Religion?
John McWhorter takes aim at the fundamentalists on the far left—who are scaring away allies Democrats desperately need.
Economy
The Trillions In Covid Spending Is What the Economy Needed
Should the massive federal assistance have been more targeted? We should be glad it wasn’t.
Health Care
The Doctor Will Not See You Now
Primary care is a disaster. Consolidation is making it worse. And a revolution is coming.
