How America’s forbidding political landscape made health care reform impossible for Clinton and nearly so for Obama.
Books
Book reviews and essays from the Washington Monthly on the new books shaping debates over politics, policy, history, and American democracy.
Posted inBooks, Government, Magazine, November/December 2011
They Shall Reap the Whirlwind
How religious zealots in the Israeli government are supporting a new generation of extremist settlers who hate the Israeli government.
Posted inBooks, From The Archives, Law and Justice, Magazine, November/December 2011
Justice Served
John Paul Stevens’s Supreme Court tenure was marked by the firm belief that absolutism had no place on the bench.
Posted inBooks, Economy, Magazine, November/December 2011
Dumbing Down Darwin
Robert Frank’s effort to explain the lessons of evolution without offending libertarian sensibilities
Posted inBooks, Economy, Magazine, November/December 2011
Assault on Battery
The promising, frustrating, indispensable race by government and industry to revolutionize the storage of electricity.
Posted inBooks, Economy, Magazine, November/December 2011
When Giants Roamed the Earth
How the self-proclaimed Capitalist Tool was brought down by capitalism itself.
Posted inBooks, Magazine, September/October 2011
“My Mommy Doesn’t Have Any Papers”
How the underground life of undocumented immigrants leaves their children cognitively impaired.
Posted inBooks, Magazine, Politics, September/October 2011
Heart of Dunkelheit
Germany’s other genocide.
Posted inBooks, July/August 2011, Magazine, Politics
No Holiday in Cambodia
How the United Nations foots the bill for a state ruled by thugs.
Posted inBooks, July/August 2011, Magazine, Politics
Watching Titanic in Pyongyang
What the first systematic survey of North Korean refugees tells us about life inside the Hermit Kingdom, and about whether the regime might be ready to fall.
