Steven Waldman, a Washington Monthly contributing editor, is the co-founder of Report for America, a national service program for journalists.
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It’s slow, inefficient, and sclerotic. A former senior Biden official offers a progressive blueprint to fix it.
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Subsidies for Scholarship Granting Organizations, the latest rage on the right, are being sold as a brilliant innovation to help underprivileged kids. Don’t fall for it.
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Israel isn’t going to disappear and calling for its liquidation spurs antisemitism. There’s a better way.
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