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The Monthly‘s annual fundraising drive continues this week. If you’re a regular, you know that the Washington Monthly offers the kind of cutting-edge reporting and analysis the country needs now more than ever, breaking big stories well ahead of other media outlets.
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This does matter. A few years ago, back when I was in graduate school, I wrote a piece about the Washington Monthly and its history and finances. Check it out here, if you’ve got a minute.
I pointed out that, like virtually all magazines of ideas, the Washington Monthly doesn’t make that much money. While we have print and online ads, this only covers part of our overall expenses, which means that we depend on contributions from readers to keep publishing.
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