Founded in 1969, the Washington Monthly is an independent media organization based in Washington, D.C. Our mission: To preserve democracy and champion good governance through honest journalism and ...

Thursday, August 27, was the first day of the new normal, but it didn’t yet feel normal to any of us in Kyiv.

When you stop grading by snob appeal, the truly excellent ones shine. Plus, our new ranking of the best colleges for rural ...

Founded in 1969, the Washington Monthly is an independent media organization based in Washington, D.C. Our mission: To preserve democracy and champion good governance through honest journalism and ...

Comparing Trump to Hitler is considered facile, a trivialization of genocide. But their rises to power are frighteningly similar.

Trump’s deficits and ballooning U.S. debt are rattling the bond market. Clinton’s approach to budget surpluses offer a ...

The universities that educate the majority of Americans are struggling. How college closures will reengineer America’s class system.

Voters are clear in their demand for greater affordability, with college costs near the top of their list. Here’s how to deliver it.

Go on any online forum, and you will see progressives decry “the DNC” as a corrupt bastion of the insider establishment ...

The Best Colleges for Rural America reveal how some of higher ed’s biggest returns are happening in the country’s most remote corners.

AI is wiping out internships and automating the work interns do, even as landing one becomes more important for getting a full-time job.

Establishment is used as a description and even a slur for Democrats in and running for office, but it’s really just misleading.