Eric Cortellessa is the digital editor of the Washington Monthly. His writing has also appeared in the Washington Post, the Nation, Slate, and the New Republic. A graduate of Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, Eric’s thesis project—a short documentary on criminal records as a barrier to employment—was nominated for a 2015 Emmy Award.
Eric can be reached at: ecortellessa@washingtonmonthly.com
Meet the New Trustbusters
These 2020 Democratic contenders want to take on modern monopolies. Will voters get behind them?
The Netanyahu Catastrophe
He sees himself as Israel’s ultimate defender. In reality, he poses one of its greatest existential threats.
The Lessons of Ilhan Omar
Critics of the Israel lobby’s influence must be extra careful not to provide fodder for bad-faith Republican outrage.
The Celebrity Journalists Even a Populist Could Love
A new documentary about Jimmy Breslin and Pete Hamill has insights for today’s press corps.
The Democrats’ Pop-Up Foreign Policy Problem
Conservatives have created a permanent infrastructure of think tanks to generate foreign policy positions regardless of who’s in the White House. Liberals need to do the same.
