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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.
John Chrastka of EveryLibrary, which fights for library budgets and against book bans, discusses libraries, their central role in our society, censorship—and those drag-queen story hours.
AI companies want to monetize what makes us human. Who will stop them?
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Long before the Southern Poverty Law Center, non-government organizations ran undercover operations against American fascists.
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Nick Hanauer and Eric Beinhocker have a plan for fixing capitalism: “market humanism.”
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Leon Panetta, the last of the wise men, covers the waterfront on where we are and where we must go to save this country.
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All signs point to a Blue Wave, and they may need every drop to overcome recent gerrymandering woes and likely presidential scheming.
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Theo Baker’s debut book is a film-worthy investigation of Stanford’s culture of fraud. But his disdain for the tech bros keeps him from understanding them.
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The Founders’ understanding of national prayer centered on self-scrutiny and repentance, neither of which seem fashionable in today’s Republican Party.
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