David Masciotra, a contributing writer to the Washington Monthly, is the author of several books, including Exurbia Now: The Battleground of American Democracy and I Am Somebody: Why Jesse Jackson Matters. His Substack is Absurdia Now.
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Democratic voters, long partial to candidates who show a capacity for bipartisan compromise over ideological purity, may be changing.
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The new Lincoln Memorial Undercroft museum enshrines America’s highest ideals, however unrealized.
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Richard Nelson Frye devoted his life to Persian history and asked to be buried in Isfahan, but Iran’s hard-liners refused. As Iran and the United States fight a widening war, his story offers a parable of a relationship surrendered to hard-liners.
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Amid millions carrying some college credit and no bachelor’s degree, the lines between community college, four-year institutions, and even high schools are blurring. How to make this brave new world even better.
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