I went to judge a national debate tournament and came away less worried about the teenagers than the politicians and pundits who argue just like them.
Zach Marcus
Zach Marcus is a former intern at the Washington Monthly and a student at Middlebury College.
Posted inNovember/December 2025
Draining the Online Swamp
Instead of accepting the existing digital political battlefield as inevitable, Democrats should challenge it as a root cause of our dysfunctional politics, and vow to be the party that cleans it up.
Posted inMagazine
The Corporate Raid on Campus
Finance industry recruiters are starving critical fields of talent and steering an entire generation into soulless jobs.
Posted inNovember/December 2024
The App Always Wins
Online sports gambling companies use sophisticated and deceptive techniques to exploit problem gamblers. The same technologies could be used to protect the addicted, if government would only demand it.
Posted inCollege Guide
Those Colleges With “State” in Their Name
New research shows that regional universities deliver the greatest return for our tax dollars. So of course we starve them of funds.
