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How Investing in the VA Can Help Fight Hospital Monopolies
(The following is Washington Monthly Senior Editor Phillip Longman’s opening statement before the House Committee on Veteran Affairs on May 27, 2021.) Good afternoon Chairman Takano, ranking member...
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Amtrak Joe vs. the Modern Robber Barons
As expected, when a chief executive nicknamed “Amtrak Joe” put together his signature infrastructure bill, it contained an unprecedented sum for expanding rail service across the country: $60 billion...
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Inside Tucker Carlson’s Brain
On February 22, as tensions that would soon spill into war mounted on the Ukrainian border, Fox News’ Tucker Carlson opened his show—the most popular cable news program in the country—with a searing...
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It’s the Monopoly, Stupid
On the evening of October 24, 1978, President Jimmy Carter sat up straight behind the Resolute desk in the Oval Office, interlocked his hands, and began reading from the prepared remarks laid out in...
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Everyday High Prices
For years, the only supermarket serving the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in southwest South Dakota was run-down and a threat to public health. Inspectors from the Indian Health Service repeatedly...
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Can Aristopopulism Save Us?
In 2018, Patrick Deneen, a professor of political science at Notre Dame, published a book entitled Why Liberalism Failed. Many liberals, most notably The American Prospect’s Robert Kuttner, wrote...
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How Fighting Monopoly Can Save Journalism
“Hey Journalists, Nobody Is Coming to Save Us.” So reads the headline of a recent opinion piece in Nieman Reports, a venerable publication affiliated with Harvard University that describes itself as...
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Biden and Harris Broke the Suffocating “Washington Consensus” on Economics
As Kamala Harris campaigns for president, one of her challenges is the economic record of the administration she still serves. Of course, she can point out that we have the strongest economy in...
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Train Drain
For all our differences, Americans are remarkably united on one key point. Partisan Democrats and Republicans, business and labor leaders, and just about all the folks sitting in think tanks or on...
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How the Washington Monthly Mentors the Next Generation of Leaders
In 2012, a diminutive, whip-smart, newly minted college graduate named Lina Kahn was trying to find a home for the serious policy journalism she aspired to produce. Impressed by her research on the...
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