On today’s episode: Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill” turns on his own voters, Zohran Mamdani topples Cuomo in New York, and the Iran strike may have backfired.
The Editors
Posted inPolitics Roundtable
Trump’s War Gamble: “Isolationist” President Opens Pandora’s Box With Iran
Jacob Heilbrunn joins the editors to weigh in on potential military escalation, political divides, and economic fallout from Trump’s strikes on Iran.
Posted inPolitics
No Kings, Just Chaos
As Trump’s $45 million military pageant fizzled, millions joined protests, a political assassination shook Minnesota, and Israel launched surprise strikes on Iran. Our editors make sense of a disorienting weekend.
Posted inHigher Education
Trump’s War on International Students
The administration’s assault on international enrollment threatens not just elite institutions like Harvard, but the financial viability of regional colleges, local economies, and the soft-power infrastructure of U.S. foreign policy.
Posted inPolitics
Los Angeles: Trump’s National Guard Mobilization May Backfire
So far, his reaction to protests against heavy-handed immigration arrests has created chaos instead of quelling it. A Washington Monthly podcast discussion.
Posted inNovember/December 2021
The Surprising Greatness of Jimmy Carter
A conversation with presidential biographers Jonathan Alter and Kai Bird.
Posted inMagazine
Take Your Mind Off the Election With the Fall Books Issue
The November/December issue is here
Posted inCollege Guide
Our 2024 College Rankings Are Out: See How Your School Did
While other rankings obsess over elite universities, the Washington Monthly releases new lists that focus on colleges that serve non-wealthy students and their communities.
Posted inCollege Guide
A Note on Methodology: Four-Year Colleges and Universities
To establish the set of colleges included in the rankings, we started with the 1,565 colleges in the 50 states and Washington, D.C., that are listed in the U.S. Department of Education’s Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) and have a 2021 Carnegie basic classification of doctoral, master’s, and baccalaureate colleges, are not exclusively graduate […]
Posted inFeatured
VIDEO: Anne Kim Discusses “Poverty for Profit” with Paul Glastris
‘Poverty for Profit’ pulls back the curtain on a vast, predatory corporate sector that few middle-class Americans know anything about. In the video below, author Anne Kim discussed the book with Washington Monthly Editor-in-Chief Paul Glastris.
