A new history of the post 9/11 war on terror shows how badly America and its enemies misunderstood the consequences of their own actions.

A new history of the war on terror shows how badly both America and its enemies misunderstood the consequences of their own actions. Founded in 1969, the Washington Monthly is an independent media ...

Millard Hassan makes and repairs hoes used by clam and worm diggers at his workshop, M + T Hoes in Newcastle, Maine. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty) Democrats face a five-alarm fire in rural America, but ...

Protect Democracy’s Beau Tremitiere offers tips on how citizens can do their part to ensure free and fair elections in November.

The mainstream press was far from perfect. But before the era of “hot takes,” information silos, steep budget cuts, and ugly charges of “fake news,” it had strengths that we need now.

In "The Castle," Jon Ronson investigates the roots of male alienation and the forces driving men toward grievance and the manosphere.

Protect Democracy’s Beau Tremitiere offers tips on how citizens can do their part to ensure free and fair elections in November.

Search engines steer students with fewer resources toward schools with worse outcomes, many of them predatory for-profits.

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

In a time of enrollment crunch, universities have an existential obligation to serve Hispanic students, the one population that’s growing.

Charles Adair told jail officials he had schizophrenia. Less than 48 hours later, he was dead after officers restrained him in his cell.

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