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Books
Book reviews and essays from the Washington Monthly on the new books shaping debates over politics, policy, history, and American democracy.
Posted inApril/May/June 2020, Books, Magazine
Does the Never Trump Movement Matter?
Most conservatives eventually embraced Trump. Here’s why a few didn’t.
Posted inBooks, Featured, Political Animal
How Conservatives Have Rigged Our Politics
Republicans are beating Democrats at a game they don’t even know they’re playing.
Posted inBooks, Featured, Political Animal
When Balance Comes at the Expense of the Truth
Journalists need to stop acting like Democrats and Republicans are the same.
Posted inBooks, January/February/March 2020, Magazine
The Kids Are Not All Right
Millions of young adults aren’t in school, don’t have jobs, and are ignored by policy makers.
Posted inBooks, January/February/March 2020, Magazine, Main
The Mistake Democrats Risk Making
Progressives and moderates, argues E. J. Dionne, need to settle their differences and focus on Trump.
Posted inBooks, January/February/March 2020, Magazine, Main
How D.C. Shaped Basketball
Journalist John McNamara was writing the definitive history of D.C. high school basketball, until a mass murderer walked into his newsroom.
Posted inBooks, January/February/March 2020, Magazine
Can America Break Free from the Two-Party Doom Loop?
Ranked-choice voting may be the answer to the gridlock, polarization, and gamesmanship that has come to define our politics.
Posted inBooks, January/February/March 2020, Magazine
When Members of Congress Really Fought
Today’s heated rhetoric in Congress echoes antebellum days when arguments led to gunfights. The violence ended only when the South lost.
Posted inBooks, Featured, Political Animal
Public Service the Hard Way
How Donald Trump hired and fired his first Veterans Affairs secretary.
