Issue: November/December 2018 | Washington Monthly

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How liberals in the reddest parts of America are starting to get their groove back.

There’s something suspicious about Salena Zito’s glowing profiles of Trump voters. Does anyone in conservative media care?

A leading D.C. finance expert has an idea that could bring eyesight to millions—including herself.

Radically expanding the House of Representatives would help solve some of the biggest problems facing Congress and, by extension, the country.

To address one of America’s deadliest problems, start by cornering the market.

How America’s anti-monopoly laws got turned against the little guy.

Will Florida’s sleek, for-profit rail project become an advertisement for the limitations of bipartisan compromise?

A writer, benefactor, and board member for the Washington Monthly, Jeff was a visionary policy intellectual.

Norman Eisen spent his career building up a narrow area of expertise. Now it’s in higher demand than ever.

Max Boot charts his journey through—and out of—the conservative intellectual movement.

As an advocate and a judge, she has used ingenuity, tenacity, and strategic brilliance to attack the legal foundations of discrimination in America.

The modern American economy is not just unfair. It’s ruining our democracy.

To counter the threat of authoritarianism, the left must focus on expanding voting rights.

If laws are like sausages—unpleasant to watch being made—then party whips are their indispensible chefs.