Issue: July/August 2018 | Washington Monthly

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Democrats are focused on taking back power—but our democracy depends on them keeping it. To do that, they have to start thinking differently.

Are today’s young, Bernie-inspired leftist intellectuals really just New Deal liberals?

How a form of private governance is quietly remaking America’s cities.

How the media gets the story wrong on the Veterans Administration.

D.C. statehood would be a boon for Democrats. But to make it happen, the party will have to get over its squeamishness about expanding its own power.

Ending the island’s colonial status would right a historic wrong—and permanently change the political map.

Since the 1950s, the conservative movement has justified bad behavior—including supporting Donald Trump—by persuading itself that the left is worse.

Why the collapse of small newspapers affects us all.

A citizen’s guide to deciphering the mumbo-jumbo of K Street.

A new defense of the monopolization of the U.S. economy relies on cherry-picked data and misleading arguments.

The more homogenous the parties become, the uglier the divide between them.

In 1983, a nuclear war game almost turned real. Have we learned our lesson?

Why being a Republican makes you more religious, and not just the other way around.