Don’t let doomsayers like Donald Trump fool you. On every meaningful metric of national strength, the United States under Joe Biden is a rising power—and we have the economic means and necessary alliances to meet our gravest challenges.
July/August 2024
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Gun Without a Trace
I spent years trying to track the weapon that killed a 13-year-old Milwaukee girl. What I found is a travesty of a law that, if overturned, could put a real dent in urban violence.
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Public Education’s Reinforcements
New tutoring programs funded by the Biden administration and governors of both parties are shrinking the achievement gap in America’s schools. They could be the foundation of a bipartisan movement to help struggling students.
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Why Can’t America Build Enough Weapons?
The debasement of the U.S. defense industrial base began, ironically, under Ronald Reagan, and won’t be reversed until we abandon the free-market fundamentalism he introduced.
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NATO Joe
Biden wields Reagan-like power abroad, while dismantling Reagan’s policies at home.
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Poverty, Inc.
Government’s decades-old experiment in letting corporations deliver social services has been a disaster—for taxpayers and the poor.
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The Tastemaker
The literary editor Judith Jones made the celebration of food part of America’s multicultural identity. A new biography restores her place in publishing history.
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A War Correspondent’s Inner Struggle
For decades, Rod Nordland covered conflicts from Somalia to Iraq. Only in fighting cancer did he find peace.
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How the Right’s Illiberal Past Became Present
A spate of new books reexamines the conservative movement’s history of worshipping authoritarians.
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Are Gaza Protests Happening Mostly at Elite Colleges?
Yup. The Washington Monthly runs the numbers and explains the results.
