The 2025 Minneapolis mayoral race shows how ranked-choice voting can upend politics, as a three-way alliance looks to unseat the incumbent.

A three-candidate alliance could unseat a popular incumbent and hand City Hall to a pol most voters didn’t choose.  Founded in 1969, the Washington Monthly is an independent media organization based ...

A three-candidate alliance could unseat a popular incumbent and hand City Hall to a pol most voters didn’t choose.  Founded in 1969, the Washington Monthly is an independent media organization based ...

He oriented his presidential campaign around lower- and middle-income Americans and placed rural communities squarely at the ...

The November/December issue of the Washington Monthly print magazine, "How the Democrats Can Go On Offense," is here.

In "The Second Estate," Boston College law professor Ray Madoff argues that America’s tax code has birthed a modern ...

Yes, AI is disrupting entry-level work. But don’t mistake short-term chaos for collapse. The college wage premium still holds ...

In After the Spike, two economists make a provocative case that population decline could stall innovation and human progress.

His paternal grandfather’s life had also splintered in middle age, when a scandal derailed his career as a minister. For ...

In We the People, Jill Lepore argues the Constitution isn’t the parchment paper, but the evolving democratic imagination of the people.

Tim Wu’s "The Age of Extraction" argues that Big Tech’s dominance is squeezing businesses, distorting markets, and destabilizing democracy.

Republican tax cuts and immigration crackdowns have deepened Social Security’s crisis. How to fix it without punishing working Americans.