Matt Connolly

This week’s offering dives deep into the campaign question that you’re sure to hear in the next year, one that can seem inane or insightful depending on your tolerance for the presidential horse race. In our April 2003 issue, Brent Kendall looked back at the history of candidates being asked for their reading lists and […]

With tonight’s overstuffed Republican debate approaching, this week’s throwback is a Max Blumenthal piece from our October 2003 issue about the National Clergy Council, a little-known but influential religious conservative advocacy organization, and its leader the Reverend Rob Schenck. The group found success in the Bush years, lobbying members of Congress, organizing rallies, and calling […]

While the country is outraged over the killing of Cecil the Lion, it’s worth revisiting Christina Larson’s article from our January/February 2006 issue on why hunting is a great American pastime — and why it takes a progressive government to save it. Most American hunters aren’t Minnesota dentist Walter Palmer, of course. They’re hunting quarry […]

This week’s throwback story is “Castro’s Casting Couch,” from our April 2003 issue. While U.S.-Cuba relations are thawing right now, with the two countries’ embassies reopening and increased American tourism likely to follow, Damien Cave’s feature recalls a time when some of the most prominent American visitors to the country were Hollywood directors and A-list […]

One of the Washington Monthly’s best and most underused assets is our archive. There are more than 45 years’ worth of articles and essays from very talented writers, many of which ring just as true today as they did at the time of publication. With this in mind, we’re rolling out a new Throwback Thursday […]