Matt Connolly

This week we previewed our upcoming magazine issue with Confessions of a Paywall Journalist, John Heltman’s look at the rise of the trade press in Washington. It’s far from the first time we’ve published a first-person account of the state of media, though. Back in the summer of 2004, Ted Turner discussed the various ways […]

This week we’re jumping back more than 15 years to Alexandra Robbins’ June 2000 take on how journalists prep to be talking heads. Have you ever watched a cable news show and felt like the experts weren’t quite qualified to be expounding on the topic of the day? (Let’s be real, have you ever watched […]

With the first Democratic debate fresh in everyone’s minds, we’re jumping back to our September/October 2012 issue with John Sides’ look at whether these contests are actually relevant to election results or mere self-sustaining political media fluff. Sides goes past presidential polls and dives into the research: Does anyone actually make decisions based on debate […]

It is not a good time to be a Washington Nationals fan. The team — once picked as a World Series favorite — is not so much limping to the end as it is imploding more and more spectacularly as the season’s close draws nearer. After a week that featured a fight between phenom outfielder […]

In honor of Pope Francis’ visit to D.C. today we’re looking back at Kevin Carey’s feature on Trinity Washington University, “one of the more remarkable and unacknowledged institutions in twentieth-century American higher education,” from our July/August 2011 issue. Founded in 1897 by the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur, the tiny school in the city’s […]

If you missed yesterday’s Washington Monthly/New America event, you can watch the entire thing above. It was a lively discussion on college data and the future of higher ed. Deputy Under Secretary of Education Jamienne S. Studley discussed the Obama administration’s new college scorecard and how the new data might be used to improve institutions […]

To celebrate the release of our college guide issue and dive deep into the higher ed topics therein, we’ll be hosting an event Wednesday morning at 9:30 with New America. The focus is on the Obama administration’s new college scorecard along with the innovative college presidents who are already rethinking education to put their schools […]

Jorge Ramos is in the news lately for being thrown out of the room by Donald Trump and berated by Trump supporters — but Monthly readers who have been with us for at least a few years will know that this is far from the first time he’s appeared in our coverage. This week’s Throwback […]

GOP hopeful Carly Fiorina, one member of the relatively large contingent of political outsiders running for president, appeared at yesterday’s New Hampshire Education Summit, where she praised school vouchers, attacked Race to the Top, and generally hit all the Republican talking points. But it’s not the general arguments she made that were notable — it’s […]