A colossal infrastructure investment program could make Beijing a lot of friends around the world—or a lot of enemies.
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Posted inBooks, Magazine, September/October 2018
Giving Us the Business
How hidden fees bleed the middle class dry.
Posted inFeatured, Magazine, November/December 2017, Political Animal
Kuku: A Love Story
Remembering Kukula Kapoor Glastris, the Washington Monthly’s longtime books editor.
Posted inBooks, Magazine, November/December 2017
What J. D. Vance Doesn’t Get About Appalachia
A new history shows how Big Coal created a culture of dependence.
Posted inBooks, Featured, Magazine, November/December 2017
The Hidden Powers of the People’s Branch
Passing legislation isn’t the only way Congress can check an unruly president.
Posted inBooks, Featured, Magazine, November/December 2017
Trial in Error
How the economic imperatives of academia and biomedical journals are leading to a flood of junk science.
Posted inBooks, Featured, Magazine, November/December 2017
Congress Wasn’t Always This Awful
A former Senate staffer reminds us of a time when lawmakers actually got stuff done.
Posted inBooks, Magazine, Main, November/December 2017
Pen and Tell
The first memoir by an Obama speechwriter adds to a storied genre while avoiding its usual cynicism.
Posted inBooks, Magazine, November/December 2016
The Enigma of Ulysses S. Grant
A magisterial new biography fails to crack the mystery of America’s greatest general.
Posted inBooks, Magazine, November/December 2016
Trump’s Supporters Revealed
Two new books underscore the big lesson of 2016: GOP base voters hate big government spending only when the “wrong” people benefit.
