AI is disrupting entry-level work. But don’t mistake short-term chaos for collapse. The college wage premium still holds.
Nate Weisberg
Nate Weisberg is an Editor at the Washington Monthly.
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Posted inPolitics
The Rise of the Populist Moderates
Democrats like Ruben Gallego and Pat Ryan aren’t old-fashioned centrists. They’re economic rabblerousers, and they are showing their party how to win again.
Posted inEconomy
The College Degree Is Not Losing Value
Yes, AI is disrupting entry-level work. But don’t mistake short-term chaos for collapse. The college wage premium still holds.
Posted inCollege Guide
New York Colleges: Best and Worst
From the Bronx to Greenwich Village, we ranked the schools that serve their students—and the ones that serve themselves.
Posted inCollege Guide
America’s Best Colleges for Research
For the past two decades, the Washington Monthly has included in its annual college rankings measures of a university’s research prowess—its record of producing the new scholarship and scholars that drive economic growth and human flourishing. This year, we’ve put those metrics into a separate ranking, the Best Colleges for Research, which appear at the […]
Posted inBooks
The Power Brokers
Jonathan Mahler’s portrait of four crucial years in 1980s New York City shows a volatile and divided city in crisis, with loudmouths from Al Sharpton to Rudy Giuliani to Donald Trump accumulating power.
Posted inPolitics
Inside the Trump Assault on the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
An agency lawyer and union representative opens up about the Trump/Musk rampage on the CFPB, what happens next, and why he’s still optimistic.
Posted inPolitics
Donald Trump Is Following the Sam Brownback Playbook
The former Kansas governor’s radical economic agenda undermined the state’s prosperity, decimated vital government services, tanked his popularity, and put a Democrat in power. Could the same fate await the current president?
Posted inMagazine
Who Is Batya Ungar-Sargon?
A Berkeley-educated leftist who couldn’t bear drinking at a bar with Trump voters is now MAGA’s top defender. A tale for our times.
Posted inMagazine
The Meager Agenda of Abundance Liberals
What the Democratic Party’s most buzzed-about policy movement gets right—and wrong.
